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Workers’ playtime at Capital One: Company puts the emphasis on employees having fun
It is not every company that would think to provide kayak racks for employees wishing to travel to work by boat, but that is precisely what Capital One did when it opened a new…
Women step up to the top jobs at Wakefield Council: Equality initiative wins Opportunity Now award
An award‐winning equality scheme has helped almost to treble the proportion of senior‐management jobs held by women at Wakefield Council over the last six years. When the Stepping…
Barclays pioneers a job‐share register: …that helps to boost part‐time working and work‐life balance
Around a quarter of employees at UK bank Barclays now work part time – a figure which is rising all the time as a pioneering national job‐share register helps to match potential…
BT employees highlight benefits and drawbacks of teleworking: Survey reveals most work longer hours but have better quality of life
Teleworking increases productivity, reduces absenteeism and improves quality of life, but also increases working hours, a survey of almost 2,000 staff registered with Workabout…
The forces of law, order and social identity theory: A complex equation
Job satisfaction is an expression that came into common usage during the 1970s. For many people, the term simply meant whether or not they enjoyed their work. It is of course a…
Innovation is all talk at ARM Holdings: HR stresses central role of engaging people through communication
Bill Parsons, HR director of ARM Holdings, market leader in mobile‐phone technology, is passionate about communication. He sees it as the core ingredient sustaining the company’s…
How BPR oiled Mobil’s wheels in Australia: World of change
Few industries sailed through the increasingly choppy waters of the 1990s without, at some point, feeling a little bit queasy. Throughout the decade, as the business world became…
HR helps Intrawest to stay at peak of perfection: Skiing resort regularly recognized as No. 1 in North America
Intrawest’s Whistler and Blackcomb skiing resort needs 5,000 employees in the winter and only 400 throughout the rest of the year. Effective HR practices, however, help to ensure…
Employee‐management system boosts efficiency at East Sussex Hospitals: Administration time and costs fall while staff satisfaction rises
An employee‐management system introduced by the support‐services management team at East Sussex Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) Trust, UK, has reduced administration time…
Middle‐managers feel under the weather in the NHS: High turnover and low morale follow reorganization
“We are just a tool in a structure. We are not people any more to those above us… You are kicked from above, you are kicked from below and you are the first one on the line to be…
Granada grasps the challenge of learning at work: “Dynamic curriculum” for executive development
The average manager in the UK receives about five days’ training a year. Some 22 percent of managers get no training at all. But the experience of Granada plc reveals that the…
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