In today’s business environment, staff training and development is generally accepted as an investment in the future – both for companies and individuals. But managers must know how best to determine needs and to structure learning programmes that are relevant, strategically on target, challenging, and fun.
Leadership is still key topic in the HR literature but the rush to incorporate “Leader” into position titles appears to have abated. Leadership development programmes continue and the manager/leader debate
Ruth Le Pla’s article Outward Bound®: Why leaders need to get physical, (Management September 2002) raises some interesting issues. For example, why do senior managers continually need to take tough
Re Upfront, Management October 2002: Management Consultancy – dead or just leaving home? This article makes number of good points on changes in the management consulting field. However, by classifying
Projecting crisp, clean images onto a screen in all kinds of light conditions calls for extremely sophisticated projection technology. M-tech went shopping.
Grant Webster Sky City Entertainment Group has appointed Webster general manager operations of Sky City Auckland. Ray Stonelake Stonelake, since the early 1980s restaurant franchisee for McDonald’s Restaurants, now holds
The corporate blowtorch that has for so long been trained on employees, with massive redundancies, and customers, with depleted services, has now been pointed at senior management – with a vengeance. But this time it’s different. It’s not just “management” that’s being labelled “crooked” and “incompetent” but, specifically, CEOs, boards, individual directors and chairs of boards.
Do the folk emerging from fancy business colleges with their shiny new MBAs know too much about fiddling finances and not enough about basic morality? It’s an inevitable question following
Ethics and human resources (HR) go hand in hand, according to recent missive from the Management Centre Europe. MCE faculty member Nick Kelly says that in essence, most HR decisions
Kidnap, murder, airline hijacking – avid news junkies would tell you there’s lot of it about these days. And while chances of getting personally involved are still anorexically slim, New
Tacit knowledge, sure it’s important. Err… what is it exactly? Roughly speaking, that’s the sort of response Infinity Solutions got when it recently conducted its second annual survey of knowledge
When it comes to pre-testing future employee’s integrity, US companies often ask them how much they stole last year. While such an overt approach would seem to fall into the
Companies that employ dedicated safety managers tend to give them ranking up alongside that of marketing or production. That’s one of the findings from survey carried out recently by the
