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Job‐opportunity systems: the contrasting approaches of Chubb and Bear Stearns
The Chubb Group of insurance companies and Bear Stearns security company are among the large corporations that have, over the last decade, been gradually liberating their internal…
HR transformation at AT&T Consumer Services
Over a five‐year period, AT&T Consumer Services experienced radical structural change, in preparation for US deregulation of the telecommunications and information‐services…
Human resources role transformed at Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank (DB) is using project‐orientated learning, new technology and academic input as part of a radical transformation of its HR function. In 1999, after acquiring Bankers…
Diversity creates global competitive advantage for South African Breweries
South African Breweries (SAB) Group, one of the world’s largest beer distributors, is at the forefront in addressing social inequities in its hiring, promoting and training…
Partnership and workplace learning at BT
A telecommunications company, trade union and university are involved in one of the most ambitious examples of workplace learning undertaken in Britain. BT plc, a company…
Whitbread assesses the benefits of action learning
Research commissioned by the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development described industry’s failure to evaluate its investment in management education and development as…
E‐learning supports induction training at De Lage Landen
Financial‐services company De Lage Landen (DLL), a subsidiary of the Rabobank Group, is capitalizing on the power of its information systems to support effective induction…
Egg steps out with total company learning
Launched only three years ago, UK e‐commerce banking organization Egg already has more than 1.7 million customers and around 2,000 employees. Employee training has had to be…
Training helps PA Consulting to solve a retention problem
From 2002:A high proportion of the 50 or 60 graduates recruited each year by a leading management, systems and technology consulting firm were leaving the company within three or…
Open communication keeps employee morale high at NBJ
Emphasis on effective internal communication has proved successful for independent financial advisers NBJ Life and Pensions, a member of the Norman Butcher & Jones Group, which is…
How IBM Australia manages its telecommuters
IBM Australia began to introduce telecommuting among some of its employees around five years ago and now leads other large Australian organizations in adopting this form of…
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