Human Resource Management International Digest: Volume 20 Issue 6

Performance management benefits organizations and their employees

The purpose of this paper is to describe how high‐performing organizations require effective performance‐management systems to promote and develop the necessary values, principles…

Training gets to the heart of Greencore Grocery: Welcoming and open culture replaces one of skepticism and suspicion

This paper aims to describe a training program, devised and delivered by training and development company Courageous Success, which has transformed manufacturing at Greencore…

Kentz builds South Africa's workforce of tomorrow: Company teams up with government to overcome skill shortages

This paper aims to consider how major international company Kentz Corporation is helping to overcome the shortage of skilled workers in the fast‐growing South African construction…

Ink makes its mark with iceberg thinking: Sales team encouraged to make the most of every second at work

This paper aims to describes how Ink, a firm that specializes in connecting companies with travelers, is to reform the system of incentives for its global sales teams by rewarding…

Pertemps retains a family feel despite a decade of expansion: Small‐company mentality helps to drive the business forward

This paper aims to describe how UK recruitment company Pertemps has retained its small‐company mentality despite ten years of growth which have seen its employee numbers rise to…

Young talent blooms at Tulip: Opportunities to grow for graduates and apprentices

This paper seeks to describe food‐company Tulip's Talent for the New Generation scheme, which provides first‐hand experience across the industry to young people at every level of…

Rapid e‐learning puts Canon sales team in the picture: Training prepares more than 400 employees for world's biggest media and print fair

The purpose of this paper is to describe how rapid e‐learning helped imaging‐products manufacturer Canon to train more than 500 sales staff, from various countries, in the key…

Virgin Trains lines up more empowered and engaged managers: Award‐winning coaching changes organizational culture

This paper aims to describe how Virgin Trains, a UK train operator, has saved thousands of pounds after coaching of front‐line managers helped to change the internal culture at…

Employee development is a great business opportunity: Investment in people is the key to company growth

This paper aims to explore why investment in people development and engagement is the key to company growth.

A global approach to talent management: High‐quality leaders are the key to competitive advantage

This paper aims to provide an insight into global talent management, including some of the common stumbling blocks and tools for assessing global talent.

To manage change, manage the big picture: The best reforms are achieved by keeping it simple

This paper aims to emphasize that the best way to implement change is not to micro‐manage but rather focus on a bigger picture.

HR holds back economic development in Kazakhstan: … and may thwart ambitions to be a top 50 nation by 2020

The purpose of this paper is to describe how the under‐developed state of human resource management (HRM) seems likely to thwart the economic and social development behind…

Enterprise 2.0: bringing social media inside your organization: An interview with Monika Wencek, Senior Customer Success Manager at Yammer

The purpose of this paper is to provide an interview with Monika Wencek.

Supreme Court guidance on when a disadvantage is age discrimination

The softer side of lean: analyzing corporate culture can point the way to necessary changes

Are you ready for agile learning design?

Bizarre workers compensation cases: the ten strangest workplace injuries of the past year

Playing with Purpose: How Experiential Learning Can Be More than a Game

Quiet! please (personality)

Women in Leadership: Context, Dynamics and Boundaries

The CEO of General Electric on sparking an American manufacturing renewal

Crowd source your next program design

Fee for intervention (charges associated with the UK’s Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2012)

For-profit business as civic virtue

The fishing industry’s cruellest catch (indentured Indonesian workers on trawlers off the coast of New Zealand)

Women in Management Worldwide: Progress and Prospects (2nd ed.)