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Is it time for the World Bank to embrace more global leadership? The World Bank, like the International Monetary Fund, was founded after the Second World War; an informal agreement between the United States and Europe has ensured that an American has always led the World Bank and a European has always led the International Monetary Fund. In today’s truly global economy, that tradition may finally end. Continue reading
There’s been a lot of talk this week about the arcane mechanisms used by companies to pay top executives, and by top executives to avoid paying tax.
HR leaders – alas, some might say – don’t generally fall into the pay bracket where these become personal issues. But they are a professional concern. Continue reading
Why has it taken the best part of two years for Apple to address the mass of damning media reports on working conditions at Foxconn factories in China? The supplier, which churns out iPads and iPods for export, has become notorious for the number of employee suicides and injuries at its factories.
This year’s IOSH 2012 conference theme was ‘changing perceptions’ of health and safety – with government, business, the general public and the media.
At the event, Professor Ragnar Löfstedt – the man behind the independent review of UK health and safety legislation – announced a new committee that would promote pragmatic, proportionate regulation. We at IOSH hope that this will go some distance to flipping any negative perceptions that commerce and government hold about health and safety. Continue reading
Consider these three statements. The CIPD has robust, global standards against which we can benchmark what it takes to be a credible and effective HR professional – at all stages of your HR career. We have a vision of the future of the HR profession, one that will position us ever more clearly as the crucial business discipline we are, not simply a people discipline. Continue reading
The dramatic series of events surrounding the G20 Leaders’ Summit and the Eurozone crisis serve to reinforce just how interconnected and, indeed, vulnerable to one another’s influence, the world‘s economies have become. And, as our organisations become increasingly international, this has a direct impact on our supply of talent. Continue reading
It’s hard to think of an individual who has influenced my life – in a practical and an aesthetic sense – more than Steve Jobs. Every day I speak, check email or browse the web on my iPhone, my MacBook laptop, or both. I might also listen to music or a podcast on my iPod. In the office we depend on the Mac operating system to view our creative work on PM at its best, and there’s an iPad on hand to check the magazine’s iPad app. And an iPad of my own is the Christmas present I hope for most. Continue reading
Succession planning is one of the most difficult things to get right in business. Lots of things can go wrong with what seems like on paper to be a straightforward process.
I have just returned from two weeks in Egypt where we were actively encouraged to use an anti-bacterial hand gel after we had touched, well, virtually anything. The label on the bottle assured us that 99.9 per cent of germs would be killed within 15 seconds. Continue reading
There’s nothing as entertaining as watching our political leaders tripping over each other, add the frisson of a controversial issue and the prospect of a cabinet split between traditionally opposed factions and we get a media storm. Underneath the flap about the fight, however, is a very good example of how we can tell what our leaders really value. Continue reading
