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Ross Bentley

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    • Employee relations
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    • Learning & development

    Language learning: Languages at the double

    by Ross Bentley 18 Mar 2008
    by Ross Bentley 18 Mar 2008

    English is the global language, yet it pays to speak local languages, especially when it comes to business. How should...

    • Learning & development
    • Learning & Skills Councils

    Training venues: University challenge

    by Ross Bentley 18 Mar 2008
    by Ross Bentley 18 Mar 2008

    With some of the best training and meeting facilities in the country, the UK’s universities are available to learning and...

    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Economics, government & business
    • Pay settlements

    Public sector special: pay

    by Ross Bentley 17 Mar 2008
    by Ross Bentley 17 Mar 2008

    Public sector workers are so unhappy with pay deals that strike action is more likely than ever. What does this...

    • Economics, government & business

    Chancellor Alistair Darling’s Budget plans for business

    by Ross Bentley 7 Mar 2008
    by Ross Bentley 7 Mar 2008

    Chancellor Alistair Darling faces the unenviable job delivering his first Budget in the Commons tomorrow: how to meet industry demands while remaining as prudent as his predecessor.

    • Learning & development
    • Training programme design

    Historic training venues: Learning while in the past

    by Ross Bentley 22 Jan 2008
    by Ross Bentley 22 Jan 2008

    If you want your training event to make a lasting impression, then holding it at a historic location may do...

    • Career development
    • Learning & development
    • Training methods

    Training jobs outlook for 2008: Full steam ahead

    by Ross Bentley 22 Jan 2008
    by Ross Bentley 22 Jan 2008

    Despite all the talk about doom and gloom in the economy in 2008, recruiters say the jobs market for training...

    • Employment law
    • Data protection
    • HR Technology

    Data protection: strictly confidential

    by Ross Bentley 14 Jan 2008
    by Ross Bentley 14 Jan 2008

    For procedures that are supposed to be concerned with confidentiality and privacy, how organisations manage the security of their large...

    • Auto-enrolment
    • Pay & benefits
    • Pensions

    Pensions: turning over a new leaf

    by Ross Bentley 11 Dec 2007
    by Ross Bentley 11 Dec 2007

    As another year approaches, how can human resources professionals ensure staff think seriously about pensions?Earlier this month, airport operator BAA...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Disability

    Human resources profile: Clare Smith, director of HR, Leonard Cheshire Disability

    by Ross Bentley 3 Dec 2007
    by Ross Bentley 3 Dec 2007

    Clare Smith saw disability charity Leonard Cheshire as just another interim human resources job. But it changed her view of the voluntary sector, and she has helped to transform its HR into a sleek business operation. Ross Bentley reports.

    • Learning & development
    • Training methods

    Train to Gain initiative has much to offer employers

    by Ross Bentley 20 Nov 2007
    by Ross Bentley 20 Nov 2007

    What can the Train to Gain initiative offer employers? For starters, advice and money.Since its launch last year, the Learning...

    • Career development
    • Learning & development

    How to progress in training and learning and development

    by Ross Bentley 20 Nov 2007
    by Ross Bentley 20 Nov 2007

    What should training and learning and development professionals do to progress in their chosen careers? For a start, seeing the...

    • Military
    • Learning & development
    • Qualifications

    Accrediting employers’ training can improve employee motivation

    by Ross Bentley 20 Nov 2007
    by Ross Bentley 20 Nov 2007

    “There are a lot of companies doing valuable work in up-skilling their workforce, and it would be a good thing...

    • Employment law
    • Redundancy

    Legal implications of redundancy: Cutting the headcount

    by Ross Bentley 20 Nov 2007
    by Ross Bentley 20 Nov 2007

    If your redundancy policies have not been update recently, the bleak employment outlook for 2008 should prompt an urgent review....

    • HR strategy
    • Outsourcing

    Outsourcing human resources: pushing beyond the boundary

    by Ross Bentley 12 Nov 2007
    by Ross Bentley 12 Nov 2007

    It would appear that among human resource chiefs the jury is still out on the merits of outsourcing.A survey of...

    • Employment law
    • Discipline

    What a load of b******s: how to deal with swearing in the workplace

    by Ross Bentley 29 Oct 2007
    by Ross Bentley 29 Oct 2007

    Say it quietly but, it seems, the “S” word is alive and well in the workplace and having a positive...

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