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Embarrassment avoidance – a key performance indicator
Victoria Coren wrote a very funny piece on embarrassment in Sunday’s Observer. Here’s her reaction to re-reading her teenage diary: A hundred years have passed. I have no schoolteachers now, I have a mortgage and gas bills…..yet, reading...
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31 May 2011 10:29 AM
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Social work and damage limitation
When I was at university, our students’ union was in the city centre. Its Friday night discos were popular events, attracting locals and students from other colleges. The three bars and large dance floor on the ground floor were heaving every Friday...
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28 May 2011 2:39 PM
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Shoesmith case – “Accountability” does not mean “Heads must roll” says judge
News just in that Sharon Shoesmith has won her Court of Appeal case against her dismissal following the death of Baby P. Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while will remember that I had doubts about … Continue reading → Read...
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27 May 2011 12:53 PM
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OECD gets owlish on UK growth and spending cuts
More goodies from the latest OECD forecasts. Well, actually, they’re not that good from the UK perspective. The growth forecasts show the UK lagging behind other comparable economies. The OECD predicts that even the Eurozone, when taken as a whole...
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27 May 2011 10:47 AM
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Public debt – how does the UK compare?
The OECD published its latest economic outlook yesterday. As usual, it’s packed with interesting information, to which I will probably refer in the coming months. Among other useful stuff, it contains the most recent government debt projections...
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26 May 2011 9:00 AM
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How will technology change business? – CIPD event 1 June
Everybody knows that business is changing as new web applications, intelligent devices and mobile communications explode into every area of operation. Technology, we are told, will enable us to work smarter and will provide new opportunities for people...
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25 May 2011 3:35 PM
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High pay and corporate ‘good chapness’
Does this sound familiar? You interview someone for a senior role and, afterwards, you look at each other and say, “How the hell was he on £150K?” Somehow, there seems to be a gulf between the candidate’s previous salary and his performance...
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25 May 2011 7:20 AM
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The feminisation of HR (Part 2)
XpertHR’s Michael Carty has published some figures that confirm my Feminisation of HR hypothesis. HR has, indeed, become more female over the last ten years or so. If this graph were extended further back in time, it would almost certainly continue...
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24 May 2011 9:59 AM
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High Pay – What is to be done?
More reaction to the High Pay Commission’s report, this time from Left Futures, a left-wing Labour group blog with an impressive list of contributors. “Top pay is about power not merit or value,” they say. Well, they’re sort of...
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20 May 2011 4:54 AM
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No need for an anti-union vendetta says the ‘Pol Pot’ of Thatcherism
An MP responds to the anti-union rhetoric (As discussed in Monday’s post.) which seems to have become fashionable in recent months. Occasionally I hear old rhetoric aimed against the Trade Unions. In the private sector that is a battle fought and...
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19 May 2011 5:55 AM
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High Pay – are shareholders that bothered?
There’s plenty to chew over in the High Pay Commission’s Interim Report (and I will when I’ve got time) but one of its findings is that the pay of senior executives and other highly paid employees has risen significantly faster than...
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18 May 2011 7:22 AM
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Blog plug – Coppola Comment
If you are at all interested in finance and economics you should be reading Frances Coppola’s blog. Frances is a former banker turned singer and image consultant. Having been a banker she understands how the system works. As she is no … Continue...
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17 May 2011 8:42 AM
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Are employment rights and unions a drag on the UK’s economy?
Last week, in a speech to the Institute of Directors, George Osborne promised to get tough with the unions and trailed a far-reaching review of employment law, with the aim of reducing employment protection and other workers’ rights. Unions are...
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16 May 2011 9:44 AM
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A very confusing state
Karen Wise reflects, this morning, on why there is so much administrative aggro in public sector HR. As an illustrative example she discusses the issue of employee start dates in the NHS. It may come as a surprise to those outside the public sector …...
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13 May 2011 8:02 AM
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Public sector reform hits the buffers
The pause in the government’s programme for the NHS is making the news at the moment but it seems that other public sector reforms have stalled too. Yesterday, Patrick Butler asked ‘Is it all over for local government reform?’ after...
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12 May 2011 10:03 AM
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