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FaberMaunsell’s “family” feel puts a new slant on work‐life balance: Staff use the company as a springboard for community participation
Improving work‐life balance is often used as a euphemism for keeping all contact with the office to a minimum, but a company that is regularly ranked among the best to work in the…
Campbell’s managers learn leadership skills in a dramatic new context: Nelson Mandela kicks off an employee’s journey of discovery
It is hard to picture the scene – a manager in a major manufacturing company with a background in chemical engineering, standing on stage in a tuxedo reading Nelson Mandela’s…
V&A looks to the future with 360‐degree feedback: System helps to develop the museum staff’s skills
Museums are not only about exhibits, but also about the people who work with them and interpret them for the public. A 360‐degree feedback system has helped London’s Victoria and…
Remploy reaps rich dividends from learning strategy : … while individual workers gain skills for life
A new learning strategy is helping to improve the status, confidence and career opportunities of employees of a UK company that finds productive work for around 6,000 people with…
BBC takes the diversity challenge: Positive discrimination gives broadcaster a boost
If you are possibly the best‐known broadcaster of TV and radio programs in the world, and your output is both phenomenal in number and hugely wide‐ranging in content, it goes…
Vital raw material called people: But why do many companies neglect succession management?
As the reality dawns on more and more organizations that their cutting‐edge competitiveness is inextricably linked to the talents, knowledge, energy and enterprise of the people…
IT professionals want to be heard: How listening and praising can help keep staff
Whenever groups of workers are made the subject of research, it should not come as any surprise when they start saying things like “We like to feel appreciated”, “We want…
Can employees be co‐opted into embracing change?: Movement or action?
A common assertion made about people who appear to be busy but who achieve very little, is that they are mistaking movement for action. Conservatism is a natural enough human…
Borg Warner partners play mutuality game : Skeptics on both sides
Ask anyone for their view of partnership agreements in UK industry and their response will be dictated to a great extent by the side of the fence on which they are sitting. This…
Happy employees put Delta in the honors: Why hotels must listen to their staff
When Delta, one of Canada’s biggest hotel companies, appeared for the third consecutive year in a list of “The 50 best companies to work for in Canada” they knew they were doing…
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