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Five business timebombs that could derail your organisation

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Jeremy Hazlehurst
25 Apr 2013 5:10 PM

You didn’t see that coming. British business has been left battered by a succession of era-defining scandals – Libor... Phone hacking... Horse meat... But what’s next? We ask the experts for advance warning of five timebombs that could...

No pay rise, no problem?

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Claire Churchard
25 Apr 2013 4:46 PM

Keeping staff happy in an era of wage freezes means rethinking the way you engage. But are organisations really playing fair? Not everybody is underpaid in the current economic malaise. Take Herbert Stepic, chief executive of Austria’s Raiffeisen...

When remote working really works

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Emma de Vita
25 Apr 2013 4:36 PM

Yahoo! sees it as a skiver’s charter. But with careful control and enlightened management, your staff needn’t be tied to the office She might be the embodiment of British remote working in 2013, but Annelise Pesa can often be found in the...

What you can learn from Virgin Money: "Spare any change?"

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Michelle Stevens
25 Apr 2013 4:24 PM

Restoring cash-starved Northern Rock to health has tested the HR mettle of Virgin Money’s Matt Elliott On 17 November 2011, a floor-shaking cheer spread through the Newcastle headquarters of Northern Rock. The reason for this unusual outpouring...

How to work for Jim Newell: “You need to live within the business...

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Claire Warren
25 Apr 2013 4:13 PM

Group HR director of business standards company BSI HR professionals should see themselves as business people first. We can’t afford to have HR people who are there for the sake of the process and the HR function in its own right. You should...

Case study on Arriva Bus: “The average reading age was 11. How would...

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Robert Jeffery
25 Apr 2013 4:08 PM

Joanne Humphries faced practical challenges as she rethought engagement at Arriva Bus. But the doubters have been proved wrong Marissa Mayer’s troubles with remote working at web giant Yahoo! have spawned frantic debate. But if the Silicon Valley...

Interview with Ben Harrison, HR and recruitment manager, Sega Europe

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Michelle Stevens
25 Apr 2013 3:59 PM

Dream job: we ask about the reality behind HR’s most enticing roles Why did you join the company? I first started in HR for a food distribution company, then went travelling for 18 months. I had a number of different career options when...

Review: The New Digital Age – Reshaping the Future of People, Nations...

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Robert Jeffery
25 Apr 2013 3:47 PM

The book of the month is by Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen Behind the story Schmidt and Cohen are leading lights at Google, which makes this examination of how technology will change the future a beast of a book, eagerly anticipated...

Interview with Dan Pink: “Don’t tell people what to do”

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Claire Warren
18 Apr 2013 2:36 PM

The old command-and-control model doesn’t work any more, says management guru Dan Pink It’s easy to blame the relentless economic gloom and the constant tide of corporate scandals for the crisis of trust and engagement in Britain’s businesses...

Nick Leeson: 'I had an exalted opinion of success'

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Robert Jeffery
28 Mar 2013 11:19 AM

The infamous ex-trader on learning from his mistakes – and healing the banking industry Nick Leeson entered business folklore in 1995, when – as head trader at the Singapore operations of Barings Bank – he was sentenced to six...