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With more than half a million in Britain suffering with back strain, employers will welcome a new survey, which recommends ways of reducing the problem among staff in the future. …
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A study of low back pain among hospital doctors revealed surgeons to be the greatest sufferers. By Matthew G Tytherleigh and Roderick LR Dunn Many healthcare workers – in particular …
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Life Long Learning and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) are the processes by which professionals, such as nurses, develop and improve their practice. There are many ways to address CPD: formally, …
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Conference debate raises issues of responsibility regarding the health of the UK workforce Is Labour’s record on workplace health more spin than substance? This was the topic discussed at …
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Find out whether you are making the most of the soft skills in your organisation with the second tutorial in our regular series What is it? Essentially, the term emotional …
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Victims can take legal action against their bosses if workplace abuse by colleagues is allowed to continueRein in the workplace bullies. Otherwise, their victims could sue their employer for stress. …
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David Marshland tackles readers questions Q I have some part-timers who are employed as cleaners for about 10 hours a week. Unlike full-timers, they are not given the chance to …
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Alliance and Leicester is to shed nearly one fifth of its jobs over the next three years by getting customers to use the web for their banking. Most of the …
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Investment bank JP Morgan is targeting gay graduates as part of its drive to win the war for young talent in the City. It has held what it believes is …
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CIPD Harrogate – competition winnerThe wining number in the Personneltoday.com CIPD conference competition is 121. To claim your prize of a weekend break contact Lucy Scoular by telephone on 020 …
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Cross-functional teams are a huge underdeveloped resource for companies wanting to improve their knowledge base, according to a report from the Institute for Employment Studies.Launching the report yesterday its director …
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Nearly seven in ten employees working from home cite work-related reasons such as “to get more work done” rather than caring responsibilities.The initial results of a Government survey into work …
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Web-based HR services allow the personnel professionals that are left to devote more time to strategic business issues, an expert in the field has claimed.Martin Stockton, e-HR Practice Executive at …
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The CIPD is poised to make a bid for greater influence over government decision-making. A spokesman told Personnel Today that the institute planned to “expand resources” to improve links with …
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We asked delegates at the CIPD conference if chartered status raised the profile of the institute Paul Harrop, European HR director of pharmaceuticals development company Kendle International “The CIPD gaining …