The Mp for Cheltenham, Martin Horwood, has been talking to trainee personnel managers about equality and hiring practices. The Liberal Democrat MP (pictured) was at Gloucestershire College, in Princess Elizabeth Way, this week speaking to students from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development who are reading for qualifications in personnel practice and training.
In 2005, all hell broke loose when Larry Summers, the president of Harvard University, suggested that along with sexist hiring practices and career breaks for childbirth, the relatively small number of exceptional women mathematicians and physicists may also have a biological explanation. The true hypocrisy of her behaviour lay not so much in a Labour minister going private, as in a former education secretary whose government had closed state special schools sending her dyslexic son to an excellent private special school, which protects children while it turns them round.
THE POPE'S intervention over the Government's Equality Bill is unhelpful. Moreover, His suggestions to visiting English and Welsh Catholic bishops that the Bill "violates the natural law", and that they resist it with "missionary zeal", will do little to win over public opinion. The Bill is a sprawling piece of legislation aimed at tidying up dozens of equality laws tackling discrimination on the grounds of gender, race, sexual orientation and age. However, it will also push further; at issue are clauses that relate to churches' hiring practices. The Church of England, for example, has claimed that the new law could prevent church schools from hiring a practising Christian as headteacher.
The intense rivalry between Facebook and Google has led to an alleged smear campaign. Facebook is accused of hiring a prominent public relations firm to try to plant stories criticising Google's privacy practices in leading news outlets.
The intense rivalry between Facebook and Google has led to an alleged smear campaign. Facebook is accused of hiring a prominent public relations firm to try to plant stories criticising Google's privacy practices in leading news outlets.
By SARAH BARDON ENTERPRISE Minister Richard Bruton said the cut in the minimum wage will be reversed but not until the summer. Minister Bruton said the cost of reversing it will be made up by changes in work practices - including cutting back on the cost of hiring workers to work Sundays and bank holidays.
Corporate responsibility is a key issue for modern businesses, whether it is questions about ethical sourcing, pollution and greenhouse gases, responsible hiring practices, responsible marketing or any other issue which may seem to appear as if from nowhere. If managers think about corporate responsibility as being like any other business activity then it comes down to a case of prioritizing resources, and routine decision-making. What managers need to do systematically is assess the impact of stakeholders on their firms. Senior managers have too limited a perspective on the strategic implications of corporate responsibility and so they fail to see the many benefits that arise from engaged corporate responsibility. Those working in the field of corporate responsibility are short of time...
Best practices suggest that we use behavioural interviewing to distinguish between knowledge and skill before hiring and a skills matrix to grade the ability of staff to do what they need to be able to do after hiring. The skills matrix helps us to identify who needs to be able to do what. 'Do' rather than 'know' is the keyword here and this should be reflected in the skills matrix.
Arecently re-launched team of professional sector business advisors has advised on its first deal - the merger of two London law firms and the hiring of a new partner to manage the newly integrated practices. The Ortus Group, which was recently bought out from under the umbrella of the Network Group Holdings empire by managing director Colin White, was instructed by top 100 law firm Thring Townsend Lee & Pembertons to secure a merger with a high-value private client practice in London.
DAVID Cameron is right to address the problems and opportunities of an ageing population and suggest the associated costs can be reduced by allowing older people to continue leading productive working lives. It is disappointing, however, that he looks to the Asdas of this world to hire older workers while ignoring the often ageist hiring practices for more challenging, high-profile, jobs in organisations such as his own political party.
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