Most people who know me are aware of how dysfunctional I am in relation to anything technical.
Opinion
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Employers are waking up to the fact that a healthier, leaner workforce means a fitter, more productive business.The way the...
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Impending baby-boomer retirements, a widening skills gap and outdated approaches to talent management are combining forces with the potential to...
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David Russell of the Learning and Skills Council found that listening to staff can define your organisation's objectives and ensure they are met
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The subject of employing so-called ‘core jobless’ people is always an emotive one. There is still extreme reluctance among organisations...
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As the nights draw in and the seasons change once again, I find myself reflecting on how HR has evolved...
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Employers seem to be relishing their opportunity to lay down the law and act as the government's social exclusion unit
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One of the presenters at a session at this year’s American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) Conference in Florida...
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Pensions are firmly back on the agenda and the debate will be lively over the coming months
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Our irascible insider on... the super-union
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No HR professional would like to be in Andy Cook's shoes right now. Little did he know that just weeks after taking on his new job as HR director of airline caterer Gate Gourmet, he would be handling one of the highest-profile industrial disputes in years
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The ‘partnership’ between unions and employers can be tentative at the best of times, but should we now dismiss talk...
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The steady spread of human resource management can help to explain why the British union movement is in such a crisis
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British Airways (BA) must dread the summer. It seems that every year BA has an industrial dispute of one type or another. Each year the cause is different and each year BA says it has solved the problem and it won't happen again. What is not clear this time round is exactly what the problem is.
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What an excellent summer. I know the economic conditions are tough in many sectors. Yet there are butterflies in my...