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    • Wellbeing
    • Occupational Health

    Nursing and Midwifery Council needs to recognise occupational health competencies

    by Personnel Today 8 Apr 2008
    by Personnel Today 8 Apr 2008

    A morning in the working life of an OH nurse on a manufacturing chemical site:

    In at 8am. Working hours...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Equal pay
    • Letters

    Public sector staff need to stop bleating on about pay

    by Personnel Today 7 Apr 2008
    by Personnel Today 7 Apr 2008

    At the risk of an avalanche of criticism, I feel compelled to write in regarding your special issue on public...

    • Change management
    • Employee relations
    • HR strategy

    NPIA hampering front-line policing is an exaggeration

    by Personnel Today 7 Apr 2008
    by Personnel Today 7 Apr 2008

    I write following the front-page article (Personnel Today, 25 March) in respect of the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA). The...

    • HR strategy
    • Letters

    Aim of IES report was not simplistic “holy grail” search

    by Personnel Today 3 Apr 2008
    by Personnel Today 3 Apr 2008

    For Nicholas Higgins (25 March 2008), self-appointed HCM school ‘Dean’, and self-opinionated consultant Paul Kearns (11 March 2008) to criticise the recent...

    • Employment law
    • Letters

    Leading nature of poll question leads to unsurprising response

    by Personnel Today 2 Apr 2008
    by Personnel Today 2 Apr 2008

    Dear EditorI was rather unsurprised that the majority voted “No” in your poll asking “Should the EU be allowed to...

    • Flexible working
    • Letters
    • Recruitment & retention

    Flexible working will increase at no cost to career progression

    by Personnel Today 26 Mar 2008
    by Personnel Today 26 Mar 2008

    The recent emergence of ‘virtual jobs’ and ‘virtual communities’ is changing the way companies attract and retain skilled staff. And...

    • Letters
    • Recruitment & retention
    • Pre-employment screening

    CVs and interviews alone are not accurate enough to assess job applicants

    by Personnel Today 26 Mar 2008
    by Personnel Today 26 Mar 2008

    The article ‘Dishonest CVs on the increase’ (Personneltoday.com, 7 February) demonstrates the need for supplementary tools to be used to...

    • HR strategy
    • Letters

    Sponsored research needs to come with a government health warning

    by Nicholas Higgins 25 Mar 2008
    by Nicholas Higgins 25 Mar 2008

    It’s a pity that Penny Tamkin’s response (Personnel Today, 18 March) to Paul Kearns’ criticisms that recent IES/Work Foundation research...

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    • Learning & development
    • Letters

    Coach training: Tools for coaches

    by Personnel Today 18 Mar 2008
    by Personnel Today 18 Mar 2008

    The case for adequate coach training is eloquently made in ‘Tools for Internal Coaches’ in your January issue of Training...

    • HR practice
    • Letters
    • Work-life balance

    If most firms already allow flexible work why add laws?

    by Personnel Today 17 Mar 2008
    by Personnel Today 17 Mar 2008

    With regard to your story ‘CIPD dismay over government caution on right to request flexible working‘ (Personneltoday.com, 22 February), am I...

    • HR practice
    • Sickness absence
    • Letters

    Absence had nothing to do with National Sickie Day

    by Personnel Today 17 Mar 2008
    by Personnel Today 17 Mar 2008

    Monday 4 February was, apparently, National Sickie Day, (Personneltoday.com/wcblog, 4 February) when employees do not call in sick because of...

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    • Letters
    • Performance management

    People management link to performance proved

    by Personnel Today 17 Mar 2008
    by Personnel Today 17 Mar 2008

    In response to the letter by Paul Kearns ‘Independent HR research fails to enhance our image‘, Personnel Today, 11 March),...

    • Flexible working
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    • Recruitment & retention

    More than a remote chance of a surge in homeworking

    by Personnel Today 7 Mar 2008
    by Personnel Today 7 Mar 2008

    In Personnel Today’s 20th anniversary issue (26 February), you ask: ‘Is the employee of the future going to be a...

    • Flexible working
    • Letters
    • Recruitment & retention

    Flexible working will define future workplace in 2028

    by Personnel Today 7 Mar 2008
    by Personnel Today 7 Mar 2008

    I was very interested to read the article by Peter Thomson (‘Will HR be about strategic partnership or operational support...

    • Letters
    • The HR profession

    ‘Independent’ HR research fails to enhance our image

    by Personnel Today 7 Mar 2008
    by Personnel Today 7 Mar 2008

    Your headline ‘100% proof: good HR will boost your company profits’ (Personnel Today, 26 February) should sound like a ringing...

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