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From the Deputy Chairman David Blanchflower

Early in 2004 the Institute's Council of Management devised an action plan that would restructure the Institute and so ensure its future long-term viability. Central to the plan was that the Institute should adopt a modern approach to its mode of operation but at the same time retain the old values of service to the membership. The Institute exists to serve the needs of the membership by delivering a quality cost effective service and this is exactly what the action plan was designed to do. A...

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'Lack of Skilled Workers Holding Us Back' Say Employers

Jobs Standstill Due to Combination of Weaker Demand for Staff and Limited Supply of Available Workers

The jobs market is at a standstill, according to John Philpott, Chief Economist at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, commenting on the latest UK labour market statistics published by The Office for National Statistics. Despite continued good news on measured unemployment, hardly any net new jobs have been created this year and the employment rate for people of working age has fallen to 74.7%. The slowdown is even more marked in terms of hours worked - a further fall of 4.2...

New Policy for Fire Service Response to Remotely Monitored Fire Alarms

Take-Up of Paternity Leave Will Only Rise If Paternity Pay Does - but Flexible Working Is On the Up

The key findings of paternity leave research commissioned by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and leading commercial law firm Hammonds, is presented. The research, which covered over 1,000 UK workers, including nearly 200 fathers of children under 16, was conducted by MORI. It found that almost a quarter of employees have requested some form of flexible working. The vast majority of these have had their requests granted by their employers.

Clerical Work Measurement Training in Northern Ireland

Award Winning Case Studies

Seeking a Sponsor for a Diagnostic Tool That Uniquely Focuses On Aspects of Workplace Control

Hsc Looks to the Future

Employing People with Learning Disabilities

Labour Pains Over Parental Rights

New Technology

Total Cost of - Brief - It Ownership

Technological revolutions have brought into sharp focus the matter of total costs of ownership - though "costs" has to be interpreted in more than just a financial sense. Costs based on the savings or greater efficiencies the new systems make compared with the old are fairly easily calculated. Costs, though, also involve consequential bottom-line effects on business like a more informed sales force, smarter customer service, prompter deliveries, more accurate invoicing and so on. Leading the ...

Euro News

News From Europe

Information Management

Information Governance: An Ethical Perspective

The mark of any ethical and caring society may be seen in the way in which it protects its citizen's human rights, privacy and their right to access personal data and information. With the growing use of technology the challenge to maintain and deliver information in an ethical and efficient manner raises a number of core questions for the UK. Although the tools and technology for creating, processing, distributing and storing information are constantly being improved, they are still far from...

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Protecting Against Discrimination

There is new protection from discrimination in the UK with the implementation of two European Employment Directives. These two new regulations concern unfair discrimination in employment, The Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003 and the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations which came into force on December 2, 2003 aim to ban discrimination in employment and vocational training on grounds of sexual orientation and religion or belief. The regulations apply t...

The Institute

Half a Century Through the Eyes of the Journal

The history of the official journal of the Institute of Management Services, Management Services, is discussed. The formation of the Work Study Society from the amalgamation of the several other bodies seems to be the definitive point. Life could not have been simpler then; Work Study, that great British innovation, laid claim to all factors affecting productivity improvement. It was in 1967 that "Management Services" was added to the title of the journal, which finally became just "Managemen...

Human Resources

People Come First

Bennington HR Consultancy is a team of management consultants specialising in human resource work that believes that if the human element is addressed early enough, major benefits accrue to the organisation's business that would otherwise have been squandered or reversed into outright hostility. They want to get management services people and consultants in vertical specialties to treat the human aspect of their work more importantly - and are prepared to back their conviction by offering fre...

Letters

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