Human Resource Management International Digest: Volume 23 Issue 7

Are women better leaders than men?

Examines some of the reasons women remain under-represented at the top of organizations, despite developments in management thinking that appear to reward areas where women…

Walgreens Boots Alliance goes multi-lingual through e-learning: Challenging program brings many and significant benefits

Explains how Walgreens Boots Alliance teamed up with Rosetta Stone on a digital language-learning program that is bringing many and significant benefits to individual employees…

Gore builds great workplace without traditional hierarchies: Innovation, openness and agility help firm to win a string of awards

– Describes the policies and practices that have helped W. L. Gore & Associates to win a string of accolades in the Great Places to Work awards.

Tui takes dual training to the Turkish Riviera: Holiday firm exports the German development model

– Describes how the German dual system of education and vocational training is being adopted by travel operator Tui in Turkey.

Zen room enhances the workplace for NobelTek’s women employees: … and helps the company to retain valuable female talent

Aims to describe the key role of human resource management (HRM) in providing a better workplace environment to women employees at NobelTek, India, thereby stemming attrition and…

Kwik Fit apprenticeship stands out from the crowd: Inspection rates the scheme top in all areas

– Examines the factors that have helped the Kwik Fit apprenticeship scheme to top honors in the latest Ofsted inspection.

Risk-based performance monitoring takes off at Brussels Airlines: System streamlines quality and safety operations

– Demonstrates how Brussels Airlines has streamlined its quality and safety operations through an integrated safety and performance-management system.

It’s time to bring performance appraisal into the twenty-first century: The lessons from companies like Cisco, Google and Infosys

– Examines the weaknesses of many current performance appraisals and shows how to improve them.

Grooming management graduates as leaders, entrepreneurs and chief executives: What business schools do not teach

– Prepares management graduates to become leaders, entrepreneurs and chief executives.

Step-by-step to stopping the cyber-bully: How organizations can help to tackle the menace

– Describes the role of HR in addressing traditional bullying and cyber-bullying at the workplace.

How to build an inclusive workplace: Successful diversity management goes beyond complying with the letter of the law

– Describes the role of HR in creating an inclusive workplace.

Debunking the myths of career success: It all comes down to attitude, aptitude, abilities and awareness

– Offers tools and techniques to choose a career wisely.

Common US immigration consequences of mergers and acquisitions

Observes that, with increasing federal scrutiny and the risk of raids, fines and even prosecution, businesses engaged in mergers and acquisitions must ensure that violations of US…

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