With the economy heading south, it’s a racing certainty that many training and L&D budgets will be cut. So, now is the time for L&D managers to start planning their survival strategies.
Opinion
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The fallout from last month’s unveiling of the Equality Bill continues apace. The suggestion that employers should, in effect, be...
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The Equality Bill is a good start but it cannot ensure equality for women without tackling the underlying cause of discrimination.
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The new Equality Bill will create a step change in opportunities in modern Britain. Ensuring diversity – both by protecting vulnerable...
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HR legal eagles will need to swap their summer read for some serious Equality Bill swotting, following the raft of...
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What should we learn from the Americans? To only ape their very best business and management practices – otherwise, ignore them.
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Having completed university in just one year, Napoleon Bonaparte (IQ 145) commanded his first army at the age of 27....
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Purveyors of teambuilding training love to say their activities make it memorable. Alas, too often it’s memorable for all the...
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More than a million agency workers are employed in the UK. Their jobs can last a matter of hours, months...
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Blame has got a bad name. But if HR wants to demonstrate its value, it really ought to start pointing...
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Business secretary John Hutton’s recent announcement that to introduce more employment legislation would be like “using a sledgehammer to miss...
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No doubt some of you will have ploughed through the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s (CIPD) recently published report...
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Since the Hawthorne experiments – some of the earliest into how to improve people’s performance at work, carried out by Elton...
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Ex-The Apprentice contestant Jo Cameron now runs her own consultancy, URhired. She thinks that women in the HR profession need...
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Earlier this month, I used this column to accuse Gordon Brown of dithering over what to do about the rights...