Human Resource Management International Digest: Volume 21 Issue 7

Blend hard and soft skills to fast-track a management career

– Highlights the importance of top people in an organization having both hard and soft skills.

MITIE Client Services is mighty good to work for: Revolutionary approach to staff development earns Sunday Times awards

– Describes how specialist provider of five-star front-of-house services MITIE Client Services is ensuring it is one of the best places to work.

The sky is the limit for staff at Flight Centre UK: Business lands tenth spot from the Great Place to Work Institute

Describes the policies and practices that have helped Flight Centre UK to reach tenth place in the Great Place to Work awards and be recognized in the Sunday Times 100 Best…

The Landmark London stands out through its employees: Hotel earns champion status in Investors in People

– Reveals the policies and approaches that helped The Landmark London hotel to achieve champion status in the Investors in People awards.

Diploma blends with Boots UK's approach to talent development: Business school nurtures retailer's leaders of the future

– Describes how Nottingham Business School has teamed up with Boots UK to help to develop the retailer's management and leadership skills.

Training program lifts product reliability at NACCO Materials Handling Group: … and safeguards relationship with main dealer and customers

– Describes a training program that helped to lift product reliability at NACCO Materials Handling Group.

Project-management training earns AMEC international quality kitemark: … and helps to ensure consistent service to clients across the globe

Highlights the benefits of project-management training at two organizations – AMEC the multinational engineering, project-management and consultancy firm, and nuclear-energy…

Aviation organization flies high as technical staff learn commercial skills: Authority gears up to compete across the globe

Reveals that technical staff who used to be a breed apart from sales teams are finding that their roles have increasingly merged at a UK aviation organization as it competes with…

Employers need to get to grips with social-media risks: Two key policies required to cover all the bases

– Highlights the risks employers face when employees use social media.

It's time to rise to the challenge of an aging workforce: Training can make older workers into valuable and loyal employees

– Observes that companies must adjust to meet the needs of an aging workforce.

The eight imperatives of effective adult learning: Designing, implementing and assessing experiences in the modern workplace

– Advances the view that those responsible for leading adult learning and performance improvement needs to take into account how adults truly learn.

Greece is failing properly to manage public-sector redundancies: HR lacks strategy to deal with lay-offs and their consequences

The purpose of this paper is twofold: to identify the lack of specific HR policies in the Hellenic public sector; basically to present/discuss a variety of recommendations that…

Millennials and the Workplace: Challenges for Architecting the Organizations for Tomorrow

A Practical Approach to Performance Interventions and Analysis: 50 Models for Building a High-Performance Culture

The Power of Communication: Skills to Build Trust, Inspire Loyalty and Lead Effectively