Margaret Kubicek
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Employee monitoring: checks and balances
Employers who knowingly hire illegal migrant workers now face a £10,000 fine or a prison sentence. Does this mean HR has to keep closer tabs on employees?
Smoking: The last gasp
Eight months into the smoking ban, employers and staff are benefiting from clearing the air and joining stop-smoking programmes. Margaret...
Bullying: Virtual fighters
BlackBerries and mobiles have blurred the boundaries between work and personal lives, and one unpleasant side-effect has been the inexorable rise of 'cyber-bullying'. Margaret Kubicek investigates.
Sowing the seeds of future success: using the internet to catch recruits young
Websites such as MySpace have redefined a generation, and HR needs to keep up with how young people communicate and work. Margaret Kubicek finds out how to catch recruits young.
Back to basics
As the final report of the Leitch Review of UK skills is about to be published, employers need to set out their learning and development priorities, says Margaret Kubicek.
Size matters: Personnel Today’s 360-Degree Appraisal of HR
HR in larger organisations is considered more strategic, but building credibility is still an uphill struggle, reports Margaret Kubicek.
The public-private debate: Personnel Today’s 360-Degree Appraisal of HR
HR is perceived to have less value in the public sector than in commercial organisations. Margaret Kubicek finds out why.
Spotlight on staff uniforms
Setting boundaries for staff behaviour is an issue for all companies, but even more so for those where staff wear...
Trust your instincts
We ask to what extent should a gut feeling be valued as a behaviour and addressed in management developmentWith softer...
Pharmaceutical firm goes global with coaching
Pharmaceutical company Kimberly-Clark is going international with its coaching – rolling out a common model across the global business as...
More than a one-minute wonder
Margaret Kubicek assesses the enduring appeal of Ken Blanchard, who wrote The One-Minute Manager more than two decades ago
Learning champions
Increasingly employers are working with union learning representatives to boost skills acquisition in the workplace
financial services bank on training to restore trust
Occupational standards for retail financial services look set for a radical overhaul following a consultation by the industry’s sector skills...
All in the mix
Diversity training needs to do much more than cover employers' backs against discrimination claims to be effective. Margaret Kubicek reports
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