All People articles – Page 23
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Analysis
Stress claim dismissed
An office manager who brought a claim against her employers for work-related stress has had her case dismissed.
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Features
Managing people risks and risky people
Mark Edelsten believes that HR managers have an important role to play in the risk management team.
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Features
The blame game
The Blame Game is alive and flourishing in the UK, as employees follow the US trend and become increasingly litigious.
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Features
Deadly cost of driving
Ten people are killed and 1,000 more are injured on Britain’s roads every day.
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Features
Reassessing longtail exposures
A recent court decision will cause some companies to reassess their liabilities where past operations have exposed their employees and others to asbestos.
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Features
Scoring own goals
Imagine that you are at a very important high level meeting to decide the future strategy of your company.
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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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Features
Bare minimum
The Government has asked industry to suggest new ways to take the risk out of pension funding. Adrian Leonard explores he alternatives.
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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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Features
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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Features
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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Features
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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Analysis
Ergonomic solution to MSDs
After 10 years' research, the American Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released an ergonomics programme standard.
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Features
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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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
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.
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Features
Early intervention and rehabilitation
David Shillaker says getting injured employees back to work quickly can benefit your bottom line.
