Managing for Health
Interim managers are filling an increasingly important structural role in the UK’s National Health Service. The profile of the jobs and of the people who do them is changing, and other complex organisations should take note
Management and malaise
When absence becomes a problem, who is sick - the staff or the organisation? Exec looks for some answers
Is my team striking? Making an executive team pull together
Getting an executive team together and making it work may not be fantasy football, but it can make a business stand or fall – and it’s not that different from sport either
Inside the graduate recruitment market: Qualified for nothing?
The Director General of the CBI claims to speak for the majority of employers when he says graduates lack important skills. But are companies playing their part?
Is Web 2.0 just the job? - Zubka and the referral boom
After last month’s feature on the true value of social networking sites, we look at how the Web 2.0 craze is affecting the recruitment industry.
Fitness, Healthcare and Private Medical insurance
People are your greatest asset, so if they are absent or ill, you lose. A company gym, screening programme and good PMI aid recruitment and retention as part of an employee recruitment programme
Will an MBA transform your business?
An MBA is seen these days as an international currency, or rather a kind of bearer bond that can be turned into either cash or other advantages. But is that currency keeping its value?
Time and attendance: ‘The balancing act’
John O’Hanlon considers 21st century attitudes to time & attendance, and some 19th century ones that won’t go away.
Ever Upward
Companies that pride themselves on best practice in developing workplace and management career paths often give sketchy thought to how they assess and develop their senior leaders