All Guidelines articles – Page 7
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Features
How vunerable is your information?
It is quite disturbing how complacent some organisations are about information security.
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Don't knock lightly
The cost of media campaigns is enormous, and having to abort one is a disaster.
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The threat from abroad
If you have subsidiaries in developing countries, you could face unexpected claims, warns Fiona Gill.
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Blowing the whistle
Frank Heinrich-Jones looks at the effects of the Public Interest Disclosure Act.
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Measuring human capital
Doug Ross and Steven Dicker show how key HR practices produce shareholder value.
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Fat cats on a diet?
Executive pay is an emotive issue. You need to keep both your directors and your shareholders happy. This may mean questioning traditional packages, warns Peter Brown.
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Don't risk employee claims
Increasing complex employment legislation, coupled with broad definitions of "workers" and high awards, are putting pressure on companies. Who would be an employer? asks Rachel Dineley.
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Competing fairly
Competition liability is a growing risk. Can insurance help? Nick Stanbury lays out the ground rules.
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Data protection - do you comply?
Eduardo Ustaran discusses the setting up of an organisation-wide data protection compliance programme, and provides practical recommendations for businesses.
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Focusing on your customers
In the late 1960s, marketing guru Ted Levitt suggested that the purpose of a business was to "create and keep a customer".
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Editor's letter
Cutting ethical corners can significantly damage your brand and your reputation.
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FSOs go green
Geoff Lane and Amy Clarke describe how UK financial services organisations (FSOs) are responding to the call for good environmental management.
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Putting a price on life
Mike Hanley discusses the cost benefit problems of increasing the safety of the railways.
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Managing your people risks
Family friendly policies create new risk issues. You should consider strategic HR and people risk management, says Mark Edelsten.
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No escape for corporate killers
Peter Campion, assisted by Asam Khan, discusses the implications of the proposed new UK offence of corporate killing.
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Analysis
NAPF backs report on company law reform
On 1 August, the UK National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) publicly backed the "considered and measured" approach of the company law steering group.
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Analysis
ICGN forms share voting committee
ICGN has formed two committees to further its aims for fairness for international shareholders.
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Effective environmental due diligence
Environmental risks present both practical and legal challenges, quite unlike other factors you have to consider in a merger or acquisition, say David Hockin, Tanya Lloyd Jones & William Butterworth.
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Analysis
Disability discrimination good practice
From 2004, service providers will have to make "reasonable adjustments" to the physical features of their premises to overcome access barriers.
