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  • The Conference Insider

    Promoting Informal Learning through the ‘Bird Feeder’ Approach

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    If you visit ‘CIPD Towers’ (as it often referred to) of a weekday afternoon, you will see pods of food dotted around the building. This is by no means a formal procedure, but each team tends to have a table that is piled with food that ranges...
  • Reward Group

    Money – that’s all I want. By Alan Measures, Moog

    Posted 02-20-2012
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    Last month The Guardian ran a piece on what jazz band leaders could teach us about leadership . It prompted me to wonder what reward managers could learn from musicians. I already had one example stuck fast in my mind. It may be true that money doesn’t...
  • Bingleby

    Meet Annie James

    Posted 02-10-2012
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    And so to the third and final candidate for the post of CEO. Charismatic headhunter Harry Aske sat next to Sally Gulliver in an obscure office in the Godforsaken windowless basement of the Global Blancmange offices, spiders’ webs starring the corners...
  • HRD Conference and Exhibition 2012

    'Defining Success - The Conference Insider.'

    Posted 02-09-2012
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    Defining organisational success in the current era of mistrust and cynicism towards big business is more complex than ever. Increasingly, success is being viewed in terms of the organisation’s culture, and, more so, how this affects both its employees...
  • Reward Group

    Passing through the eye of a needle. Part 2. Ian Davidson, Group Head of Reward, Aspen

    Posted 02-08-2012
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    What do we need to do to deal with income inequality? There are two answers to this question. The first is that we do nothing. The labour market works in so far as it ensures we have the right number of people doing the right jobs for the right pay. After...
  • Reward Group

    Passing through the eye of a needle. Part 1. Ian Davidson, Group Head of Reward, Aspen

    Posted 02-06-2012
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    But am I worth a half million pound bonus? I was talking to an investment banker, Helen, last week. She was complaining about the attacks on the high paid in the media and politicians. Yes, she had got paid a bonus of half a million pounds but had made...
  • Bingleby

    Meet Mark Temple

    Posted 02-03-2012
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    The second interview for the new CEO which Sally Gulliver and charismatic headhunter Harry Aske carried out was in a discreet room tucked away in the basement of Global Blancmange. Sally told me about it afterwards. I was indisposed, having had a number...
  • Bingleby

    Meet Robin Mayhew

    Posted 01-27-2012
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    ‘If you don’t mind me asking,’ said Harry Aske, the gently charismatic headhunter who was helping Sally Gulliver find Global Blancmange a new CEO, ‘why are you carrying that pot plant, handsome beast though he is?’ I was...
  • Reward Group

    Asian takeaway. By Deborah Moon, HR Consultant

    Posted 01-27-2012
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    As readers of this blog will be only too well aware, the issue of executive remuneration, in both the private and public sectors, has been the subject of much public, political and media scrutiny and debate. Various measures and reforms have either been...
  • Reward Group

    An interesting alternative on executive pay. By Clive Wright, Hyperion HR Ltd

    Posted 01-24-2012
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    It was Blaise Pascal who wrote in 1660 “I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.” I felt this way when I was writing this blog. I wanted to write a short punchy piece on the alternative proposals to...
  • Bingleby

    The Great CEO Hunt Begins

    Posted 01-20-2012
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    Sally Gulliver had been seeing a lot of Harry Aske, the personable, dishevelled headhunter who was helping her find a new CEO for Global Blancmange. I wasn’t sure I approved or not. I thought I probably did. Although it did not seem unwise to reserve...
  • Reward Group

    Bad attitude? By Mark Goodlake, Astellas

    Posted 01-16-2012
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    The CIPD annual report on Employee Attitudes to Pay makes fascinating reading. I would urge you to take a look. I was fully expecting page 1, paragraph 1 to tell me that employee pay satisfaction had fallen through the floor, thinking about pay freezes...
  • Bingleby

    CEOs you can cut out and keep

    Posted 01-16-2012
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    Harry Aske arrived promptly at 9am. He was well-spoken but not well-dressed, having the instinctively dishevelled look of the intensely intellectually curious. I watched him as he sat down in front of Sally, reverently nursing a cup of tea. ‘So...
  • Reward Group

    Is it time to talk about value rather than reward? Angela Baron, CIPD

    Posted 01-11-2012
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    I have just received a nudge to remind me that it’s my turn to write the reward blog which just happened to occur whilst reading an excellent new report from the Work Foundation ( The Skills Dilemma ) about the under-utilisation of skills in the...
  • Bingleby

    New Year, New Everything…

    Posted 01-06-2012
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    The prediction from our Chairman, Sir Geoffrey Shudder, that a new CEO would start “in early January” was to prove rather ambitious. The person he had in mind turned out to be allergic to cream and sugar – something of a drawback if...
  • Bingleby

    New Horizons

    Posted 12-23-2011
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    Sally Gulliver had been called into CEO Martin Simmonds’ office. She was going to be fired. They had never really got on, and now Sally’s attempts to transform the HR function, and the leadership of the company, were too much for Simmonds...
  • Angela Baron

    Careers don't wait for Christmas

    Posted 12-21-2011
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    It’s Christmas! The halls are decked and the holly already wilting and I get the impression that many people are making the most worried about what 2012 might bring. From the approach of the Mayan prophesied doomsday of 21 December 2012 to the,...
  • Reward Group

    Social media and reward communication. by Adam Sorensen, Worldatwork

    Posted 12-20-2011
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    I have spent the last few weeks reviewing the workshop proposals for the 2012 WorldatWork Total Rewards conference. It seems that this task always falls right at the end of the year. In many ways, the submissions we receive tell the story of what has...
  • Bingleby

    You’re Fired

    Posted 12-16-2011
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    Monday morning slouches into the office, rain-bothered and bleary-eyed, and – in Sally Gulliver’s case – with the threat of the sack hanging over her. Not that she knows that yet. As she takes her coat off, I clear my throat and say...
  • Bingleby

    You’re In My Sights, Sally Gulliver

    Posted 12-09-2011
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    It took the best part of a week for CEO Martin Simmonds to stop spluttering. Even then, he wasn’t exactly winning any prizes for coherence. ‘Can’t believe… astonished… blithering idiot…’ Not quite the words...
  • Reward Group

    The mantra has changed. By Glen Jenkins, CIPD reward examiner

    Posted 12-06-2011
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    The mantra of HRM that ‘people are the organisation’s most important asset’ and as such, must be nurtured to achieve competitive advantage has been around for some time. In reward management, this has been reflected in part in the concept...
  • Christmas blog group

    The Trouble with Blenkinsop by Bingleby, the pot plant in HR

    Posted 12-02-2011
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    If you are not a regular reader of my weekly blog , then quite frankly, I’m shocked. Are you really telling me a talking pot plant has nothing to offer you? Grudgingly, then, I shall introduce myself. I am a plant of some maturity, currently residing...
  • Bingleby

    Roger Stephens and his Astonishing Findings

    Posted 12-02-2011
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    Martin Simmonds, CEO of Global Blancmange, and Roger Stephens, the consultant he’d brought in to ‘advise’ Sally Gulliver, sat opposite her in her office like two displaced gargoyles in need of a church roof. I knew how nervous Sally...
  • Reward Group

    The Reward Balancing Act by Tony Hatton-Gore of Rewardhr Ltd

    Posted 11-29-2011
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    Getting value from reward is about demonstrating return on investment, particularly when times are tough. It seems to me that in doing so the reward manager is often called upon to balance a number of potentially conflicting requirements. Strategic Thinking...
  • CIPD Social Media Conference - Blog

    Social Media in the Workplace and Employee Communication by Doug Shaw

    Posted 11-28-2011
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    com•mu•ni•cate: Verb/kəˈmyo͞oniˌkāt/ To share or exchange information, news, or ideas. Social tools are everywhere. Some companies try to restrict access to these tools for fear of what their employees may say, about the company, about...
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