Rick

January 2010 - Posts

• Targets – the key to public sector reform

  Last week’s report by the Nuffield Trust, showing that England gets better value for money from its NHS spending than Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, was bound to stir things up a bit. The NHS outside England is, on the whole, run more like... Posted Jan 29 2010, 12:13 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales Filed under: Uncategorized

• Seniority ain’t what it used to be

  According to the Telegraph and Radio 4, the mid-life crisis is now passé. Instead, a graceful ‘midlife transition’ is now the fashionable way to deal with the aging process. “Gone are the clichés of adultery and Harley-Davidsons,”... Posted Jan 24 2010, 04:40 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales Filed under: Uncategorized

• Who gains from takeovers?

  Sorry for the lack of posts over the last week or so. I have been out and about again. Still, a few long train journeys gave me the chance to catch up on some reading. The hullabaloo over Kraft’s takeover of Cadbury’s has kept me entertained... Posted Jan 23 2010, 02:00 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales Filed under: Uncategorized

• Giving 100% at work

  This seemed like an appropriate Friday Funny for the first week back after Christmas. Well, it made me laugh anyway. I like the way the work effort peaks on Wednesday and then tails off again as the weekend gets nearer. Mind you, it seems that just giving... Posted Jan 08 2010, 03:01 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales Filed under: Uncategorized

• HR Strategy – Myth or Reality?

  That the HR function needs to become more strategic is a mantra I first heard over twenty years ago when I started working in HR. It’s one that people must like, because they are still repeating it. Back then I wasn’t even sure I knew what... Posted Jan 07 2010, 01:07 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales Filed under: Uncategorized

• RBS was brought down by 0.2% of its staff

  At least, that’s what HR Director Neil Roden reckons. In his recent interview with HR Magazine he claims that only 300 of the bank’s 155,000 employees were involved in the activities which brought about its collapse in 2008. If ever there... Posted Jan 05 2010, 11:24 AM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales Filed under: Uncategorized

• ‘Nowt to do with us guv!’ says RBS HR Director

  The HR director of RBS has denied that the bank’s HR strategy contributed to its collapse. Neil Roden, in an interview with HR Magazine, said that the financial crisis was “not all the fault of bankers’ bonuses or the fault of Fred Goodwin... Posted Jan 04 2010, 05:28 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales Filed under: Uncategorized

• Happy New Year – and good riddance to 2009

  Happy New Year folks. I’m sorry there has been so little here over the past couple of weeks. I’ve been too busy doing work to write about any of it. That’s often the way in the run up to Christmas; everyone is in a rush to get things... Posted Jan 02 2010, 03:55 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales Filed under: Uncategorized