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This weekend, David Cameron joined the growing list of politicians advocating a Robin Hood Tax, to claw back for the taxpayers a small percentage of the millions the banks are making in profits. But, as the Observer’s Heather Stewart notes:
David...
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This made me laugh earlier today. The HRD is having a rant about ‘unlocking potential’:
“Unlocking potential” must be right up there with “people are our greatest asset”, “the war for talent” and “employer branding” as one of the largest pieces...
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Reading the newspaper coverage of the planned British Airways strike, you could be forgiven for thinking we were back in the 1970s with mad union leaders hell-bent on suicidal militancy. Even CEO Willie Walsh has accused the union Unite of cynically misleading...
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Told to me earlier today:
“What’s the difference between a condom and a non-dom?”
“If you make a mistake with a condom, it only takes you nine months to find out.”
Well, it made me laugh anyway. Read More...
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Last Autumn, I asked whether bonus capping would damage the state-owned banks, as their senior executives claimed it would at the time. RBS boss Stephen Hester is convinced that it has. He claims he could have made an extra £1 billion for RBS if he had...
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When multi-national companies decide to implement global policies, it is often a euphemism for imposing an American model on the rest the world. A friend of mine, who is a senior executive in one such US-headquartered company, sent me this amusing note...
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Bullying seems to be this week’s hot issue, after claims that Gordon Brown bullied his staff were splashed all over the newspapers. Some newspapers have followed the story up with articles and features on workplace bullying, an issue that is discussed...
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Sathnam Sanghera, the business journalist with no business experience, was HR-bashing again earlier this week, claiming that HR executives are grossly overpaid. His evidence for this assertion was the list of the top twenty highest paid public sector...
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Just a month or so after we thought the Labour Party was about to sink without trace, recent opinion polls have raised the possibility of a hung parliament again. Last time I discussed this was way back during the last decade. The end of November, in...
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In an interview with Silicon.com Phil Pavitt, CIO at HM Revenue and Customs, told this story:
In my first few weeks of the job I was visited by leading members of the Cabinet Office.
In that conversation with me they mentioned I am in the top purchasing...
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“We’re going to run a team-building event.”
The first time I heard those words I was a young graduate trainee. I was still too junior to go on the three-day outdoor bonding exercise but I noticed the effect it had on the middle managers...
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A recent survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) draws some damning conclusions about management capability in the public sector:
There is a management crisis looming in our public services. Whichever party wins the next...
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Over the past couple of days, most business pages have reported on EMI’s downfall. If anything, the people who are working in the business have done well. Despite a tough business environment, operating profits and market share are up. But, back...
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Thanks to HPA for including Flip Chart Fairy Tales in their Top Ten HR Bloggers list. I was in good company, with the likes of Jon Ingham and Scott McArthur. I appreciated the description of FCFT too:
HR blogs don’t get more straight talking than this...
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Here’s a slightly unusual employment tribunal case.
Tim Wheeler, formerly the £780k a year CEO of property firm Brixton, is suing his former employer for breach of contract and unfair dismissal after being sacked last March. A number of allegations...
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