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Are UK boards fit enough to drive the economy into sustained growth?
The recovery of the UK economy into sustained growth will be driven by the fitness of company boards, and their ability to provide clear direction for the enterprising talent within the commercial sector, says the Chairman of the Institute of Directors (IoD), Dr Neville Bain.
Bain’s statement, which follows recent concerns from the Bank of England about a possible slowdown in...
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Dr Neville Bain, Chairman IoDThe 'Foreign Effect'?
An increasing number of British-based companies continue to
fall under foreign ownership, with the latest example this week when
International Power agreed a £14 billion takeover by France’s GDF Suez. With a growing
sense of protectionism around the world, British
governments have placed little restriction on outside ownership of British businesses.
BP's recent appointment of Robert Dudley to replace Briton Tony Hayward as CEO
has drawn...
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David Pierce Hallahan, Team CapitalTill death do us part? Why it pays to read the small print!
You may think you know your terms and conditions of
employment pretty well. But would you notice, going into a new job that the
terms in your new service agreement were noticeably tougher than those you have
had previously? Acting as I do, mainly for senior executives, I have noticed a
very clear trend in the last year or more. Put simply: the terms...
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Elaine Aarons, Employment Law Partner, WithersInterim Management market is bouncing back
The Interim Management market improved markedly in the last six months, according to our latest snap shot survey of 11,000 Interim Managers.
Daily pay rates for Interims remained unchanged, with an average daily rate of £592 at June 2010 and also at December 2009. However, in the last six months pay rates for Interims on full time assignments increased by...
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Charles Russam, Chairman Russam GMSTeam coaching - good for sport and good for business
The recent football World Cup has focused attention on team performance - but it's not only sports teams that could benefit from team coaching.
New research from Henley Business School and the performance development consultancy Lane4 has highlighted how team coaching is being used successfully to improve business performance - but also how much further it has to go.
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Henley Business SchoolLook before you leap
Job cuts have hit many sectors hard and recruitment in some industries is a buyers’ market. It may be tempting to leap at the first job offer you receive, but in doing so you may be running significant reputational risk and you may compromise your CV for the future. So, it pays to consider the implications associated with any future...
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Meriel Schindler, Head of Employment, Withers LLPSenior Executives at work
The election came and went and the Coalition
Government is now getting down to the day-to-day business of governing. Their agenda is not usually examined
through the senior executive’s eyes, so what changes will impact on you?
The vexed issue of bonuses will clearly be
high on the agenda. The Liberal
Democrats wanted a cap of £2,500 per annum, which is clearly unrealistic. However, the...
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Elaine Aarons, Employment Law Partner, WithersMore women needed in the boardroom
Although more than half of the UK’s graduates are women, some of our top 100 public companies don’t have a single woman on their board.
The Government is justifably concerned about this situation particularly as it isn’t that much better on public boards either. So, they have recently launched a new scheme through the Government Equalities Office run by Common...
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Janet Davies, myexecutivecareer.comWelcome to myexecutivecareer.com
The last few years have been tough on everyone in the workplace. Many of us have had to decide who kept their job and who didn’t, whose budget needed to be cut, which projects had to be put on hold or accelerated, and which strategies had become irrelevant in the face of rapid change and circumstances. The career rulebook has...
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