Cookies & Privacy
Rick - Member Blogs - HR Blogs - HR Space from Personnel Today and Xpert HR
Log in
|
Join
|
Help
Home
Blogs
Media
Forums
Wikis
Groups
July 2010 - Rick
Rick
Home
Report this Blog for Abuse
Syndication
RSS for Posts
Atom
RSS for Comments
Email Notifications
Go
Recent Posts
SHRM 2013: Diverse Perspectives on “Becoming More”
Posted to
XpertHR's Employment Intelligence blog
by
Employment Intelligence
HR Standards in hibernation
Posted to
Evidence-Based HR
by
HR Standards
Today on Compensation Café * More Themes from WorldatWork “Trends in Employee Recognition” Report
Posted to
DerekIrvineGloboforce
by
DerekIrvineGloboforce
Long-term sickness absence: five things UK employers may not know about phased returns to work
Posted to
XpertHR's Employment Intelligence blog
by
Employment Intelligence
Top 5 Employee Recognition Goals from the Latest WorldatWork Trends in Recognition Report
Posted to
DerekIrvineGloboforce
by
DerekIrvineGloboforce
View all blog posts
Tags
Global Shift
Peak State
Public Finances
Public Sector
Uncategorized
View more
Archives
June 2013 (2)
May 2013 (9)
April 2013 (6)
March 2013 (6)
February 2013 (6)
January 2013 (7)
December 2012 (4)
November 2012 (7)
October 2012 (6)
September 2012 (5)
August 2012 (6)
July 2012 (15)
June 2012 (12)
May 2012 (14)
April 2012 (12)
March 2012 (15)
February 2012 (17)
January 2012 (9)
December 2011 (12)
November 2011 (17)
October 2011 (12)
September 2011 (2)
August 2011 (9)
July 2011 (16)
June 2011 (20)
May 2011 (17)
April 2011 (14)
March 2011 (16)
February 2011 (20)
January 2011 (17)
December 2010 (6)
November 2010 (15)
October 2010 (21)
September 2010 (25)
August 2010 (18)
July 2010 (30)
June 2010 (15)
May 2010 (10)
April 2010 (8)
March 2010 (6)
February 2010 (11)
January 2010 (8)
December 2009 (3)
November 2009 (9)
October 2009 (9)
September 2009 (8)
August 2009 (7)
July 2009 (9)
June 2009 (7)
May 2009 (12)
April 2009 (16)
March 2009 (21)
February 2009 (14)
January 2009 (21)
December 2008 (19)
November 2008 (19)
October 2008 (27)
September 2008 (16)
August 2008 (1)
Sort by:
Most Recent
|
Most Viewed
|
Most Commented
British graduates glimpse the future, beyond the post-colonial world
Last week Kevin Ball mused on the future of graduate employment: One of the axioms of British thinking about its response to globalisation is that the knowledge economy is going to save us from the Brazilian/Russian/Indian/Chinese hoards who are going...
Published
30 Jul 2010 1:26 PM
by
Flip Chart Fairy Tales
Filed under:
Uncategorized
Now we will have to manage older workers properly too
There is already some animated discussion on Twitter about the end of the default retirement age. As Laurie Anstis says: I suppose technically the abolition of the default retirement age counts as de-regulation, but employers won’t see it that way...
Published
29 Jul 2010 10:17 AM
by
Flip Chart Fairy Tales
Filed under:
Uncategorized
Will business pressure blow the immigration cap?
The government’s proposed immigration cap, one of the Conservatives’ flagship policies, seems to be falling apart months before its implementation date. That it has caused tensions within the Coalition is not really surprising. What will most...
Published
28 Jul 2010 12:16 PM
by
Flip Chart Fairy Tales
Filed under:
Uncategorized
GPs and the Lancelot Spratt school of management
Here’s a great counterblast from Kevin Ball in response to the know-nothings who keep banging on about how the NHS doesn’t need management. As he says, the government is about to ask a group of people, many of whom little enthusiasm for management...
Published
27 Jul 2010 2:26 PM
by
Flip Chart Fairy Tales
Filed under:
Uncategorized
Speed cameras – an ideal source of funds for cash-strapped councils
Back in the early 1990s I was working for a company which had a very generous car scheme. Not only could you choose pretty much whatever car you liked within a certain price range but the firm paid all your petrol … Continue reading → Read...
Published
27 Jul 2010 11:07 AM
by
Flip Chart Fairy Tales
Filed under:
Uncategorized
Tribunal cases – should you settle or fight?
Times Higher Education reports that St Andrews University spent £204,000 fighting a constructive dismissal claim and a subsequent appeal. It won the case but the employee concerned would probably only have received £20,000 if the university had lost....
Published
26 Jul 2010 5:10 PM
by
Flip Chart Fairy Tales
Filed under:
Uncategorized
Does the public sector need hired guns?
A row has broken out in the Guardian’s public sector management section. Last week, interim manager Hilary Husbands wrote an article arguing that public sector managers who have bottled out of making radical change should be replaced by bolder interim...
Published
23 Jul 2010 9:53 AM
by
Flip Chart Fairy Tales
Filed under:
Uncategorized
Undercover Boss – in Tower Hamlets
Thanks to Charlie Duff for reminding me that Undercover Boss is on again tonight. In theory, it should be impossible to make a programme like Undercover Boss. Even in large organisations people should know what the man or woman at the … Continue...
Published
22 Jul 2010 1:28 PM
by
Flip Chart Fairy Tales
Filed under:
Uncategorized
NHS trust spits out seasoned corporate troubleshooter
After just six months in the job, the chairman of one of the worst performing NHS trusts in the country has resigned. Nothing odd about that, you might think, until you realise that the man in question is a well-respected corporate … Continue reading...
Published
21 Jul 2010 10:07 AM
by
Flip Chart Fairy Tales
Filed under:
Uncategorized
Spending cuts – the ripple effect starts
The ripple effect from the government’s spending cuts is staring already. Cancelled projects and a general slowdown in public sector spending have hit the share prices of BT, Logica, Connaught and Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW). While some...
Published
20 Jul 2010 10:25 AM
by
Flip Chart Fairy Tales
Filed under:
Uncategorized
Lansley’s reforms fail to answer the exam question
A week on and, with the odd exception, no-one outside the government has a good word to say about Andrew Lansley’s NHS reform proposals. Criticism comes from right and left, ranging from the philosophical (Can you really liberate state-funding from...
Published
19 Jul 2010 4:19 PM
by
Flip Chart Fairy Tales
Filed under:
Uncategorized
Whack Your Boss
Bit late for a weekend funny but, as with all the best stuff on the interweb, I came across Whack Your Boss when I was looking for something else. It’s called Don’t Whack Your Boss now, presumably for fear of lawsuits from the … Continue...
Published
18 Jul 2010 5:39 PM
by
Flip Chart Fairy Tales
Filed under:
Uncategorized
Goldman gets away with it
Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay a fine of $550 million to settle fraud charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission. This means that the bank will avoid a court case so we will never know whether they really did dupe investors into …...
Published
16 Jul 2010 11:12 AM
by
Flip Chart Fairy Tales
Filed under:
Uncategorized
Maude fires first shot in the battle with civil service unions
Today, the government introduced its legislation to drastically reduce the size of civil service redundancy payouts. The bill is expected to be passed in October. The government then plans to exercise powers that would allow the bill to become law immediately...
Published
15 Jul 2010 2:40 PM
by
Flip Chart Fairy Tales
Filed under:
Uncategorized
HR will be around for a while yet
Martin Couzins puts all that HR self-doubt into perspective by looking back at the occurrences of HR-is-finished scares. They seem to be getting more frequent, having gone from once every four years at the beginning of the decade to pretty much an annual...
Published
15 Jul 2010 11:27 AM
by
Flip Chart Fairy Tales
Filed under:
Uncategorized
1
2
Next >
© 2010 Reed Business Information Ltd.