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- How to Save £50,000 on Recruitment
- Personnel Today reports back from a CIPD conference where Fionna White, Nestle's head of recruitment, talked about ‘candidate relationship management', which brought cost-per-hire down to £700 a person. How she did it: She took £5,000 she'd been allocated for one hire and spent it on developing a...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Four Steps to High Integrity Pay
- The apparent lack of correlation between pay and performance has rarely been as stark as it is today. European political figures have weighed in, proposing radical measures that will discourage "hypercapitalism", says the FT. In the Netherlands, the finance minister has even put forward legislation aimed at capping ‘golden parachutes'....
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- The Friday Round-Up
- Chancellor Darling's foisting a panel of crack advisers on the Bank of England to raise the alarm about any Northern Rock-like dangers. The changes, says Darling, are to "restructure it [the BoE] so that one of its core purposes is the maintenance of financial stability". Right. What's more, the...
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- HR Directors Earn Top Salaries
- The UK's HR directors are the most highly paid in the world, according to Management Today's global salary survey. (Skip to the end if you just want to check out what everyone gets paid.) British HR directors take home £327,300 a year -- over £140,000 more than...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Giving with One Hand...
- Proven: altruism will make you happier. This should cheer Arpad 'Arki' Busson of hedge-fund investor EIM, who is just about to hold a fundraising dinner for his seven-year-old charity ARK ('Absolute Return for Kids'). The annual shindig is famously high-powered -- last year Busson...
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Jobseekers Suffer From 'Achievement Amnesia'
- Apparently, something called ‘achievement amnesia' is blighting jobseekers' chances of getting an interview. Research by iProfile has found a mis-match between what employers look for on a CV and what job applicants deliver. Employers consider work-based achievements essential to a good CV. But job...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- How Quincy Jones Could Net You a Pay Rise
- Having trouble persuading your boss that you need a pay rise? The FT's Adam Jones offers a compelling argument, courtesy of legendary music producer Quincy Jones. Managers' work, if done well, is likely to be invisible, argues Jones Adam. What you do all day is smooth the...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- The West Underrates China's Managers at its Peril
- UK managers underestimate the skills of their Chinese counterparts, says Management Issues, reporting on the Institute of Leadership and Management's report, 'Global Management Challenge: China vs the World'. The western perception of Chinese management is outdated, says the ILM -- we see China's as a place where...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Gen X 'Saves the World'
- Another note on Generation X, this time more positive. They may be the bashful 'dark-horse' generation between the limelight-hogging Boomers and Millenials, but X-ers are behind some of the most radical social media businesses in the world. This is the upshot of the fantastically named book, 'X...
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- The Biscuit that Wins Business
- At last, the true secret to clinching a deal. It's all in the biscuits, according to 'the world's first business biscuit study' by Holiday Inn. Here's all you need to know to wow them in the boardroom. Most susceptible to good biccies: Lawyers. ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- The Top Five Tech Hotspots
- Which are the hottest tech cities in the world? Silicon.com has polled the world's most respected CIOs, entrepreneurs, academics and tech writers to put together its Global Tech Hotspots report. Silicon Valley may still be number one, but it's Asian cities that dominate the top 20. And...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- The Benefits of a Bad Boss
- Dictatorial behaviour is all too common among British bosses. A poll of 4,000 employees by the aptly named www.youthinkyourbossisbad.co.uk has revealed some of their worst excesses. Anonymous postings on bad boss behaviour include: He suggested I work for him whilst he was...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- The (Big) Friday Round-Up
- Web 2.0: Lessons in ROI from Threadless Plenty of businesses still don't see where Web 2.0 delivers a return on investment, says David Tebbut at SmallBizPod. Inc's profile of Threadless, the online community-led T-shirt retailer whose 2006 profit was an estimated $6m,...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- The Summer Reading List
- Online bookstore All Top Books has done a little survey for BNET on where it sells the most business books in the UK and what they are buying. The south east of England's by far the biggest business buyer, accounting for 40 per cent of All Top...
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Urgent: Talent Managers Needed
- The fight for qualified project professionals is becoming dog-eat-dog. It's driving up costs and driving away loyalty, says Greg Balestrero, the chief executive of the Project Management Institute PMI, a global organisation for project managers. A PMI/Economist Intelligence Unit survey on talent management found: ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- A Week of Peaks and Troughs
- We're expecting a recession, you know. John Lewis has reported low figures for three consecutive months -- practically the definition of a recession. At last, someone has bothered to ask: why are oil prices so high? But peak oil concerns quickly gave way to water worries as...
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- How Your Stuff Reveals Your True Self
- It's all too easy to give things away. While talking to executive coach and author Marshall Goldsmith I begin at least four sentences with 'but' -- which means I'm discounting what has just been said and revealing a streak of impatience, he says. It's one of those...
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- The Friday Round-Up
- This week was all about the 1970s, and not in a good way. Our standard of living is slipping while costs rise, says the Mail. Memories of the decade of the three-day week and blackouts are doing little for the nation's mood. Labour's brought back the...
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Proof: Long Hours Don't Pay
- Nearly 20 years ago, organisational behaviour expert Charles Handy predicted the rise of the 'shamrock' organisation, where non-core competencies would be contracted out and employees would be an elite and hard-working core. Sound familiar? He also predicted how little time those in the high-pressure core would have...
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Water, water everywhere...
- It's only when you run out of water that you realise how vital it is, observes Rupert Wright in 'Take Me to the Source'. His book -- along with 'Water: the Final Resource', by Robin Griffiths and William Houston -- suggests we should be just as concerned about access to...
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
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