Human Resource Management International Digest: Volume 16 Issue 4

Boost your business value with succession planning

This paper aims to put forward the view that, when the owner‐managers or drivers of a successful business have to give responsibility to a new management, careful succession…

Tetra Pak extends HR department's arm: Competence coaches take on a personnel role

Analyzes devolution from HR departments to the line at the plant engineering and automation unit of global food‐processing and packaging company Tetra Pak.

SearchFlow finds “the best way” for staff and customers: Training and empowerment help firm to win Best Company award

This paper aims to reveal the factors that have helped SearchFlow, a UK provider of property searches, to earn a first‐class rating from Best Companies, the organization that…

Leadership message helps Sharks to bite back: Change‐management experts work at Rugby Union club

This paper aims to examine how change‐management specialist SFL is improving the performance, on and off the pitch, of English Rugby Union club Sale Sharks.

ABN AMRO bank breaks vicious cycle: HRM leveraged in best‐practice partnership

This paper aims to examine why and how HRM may take on a more strategic role in mergers and acquisitions.

LTFS puts the sparkle back into training: Program cuts employee turnover and improves morale

This paper aims to describe how award‐winning training initiatives have improved performance at call centers operated by three companies – Legal & Trade Financial Services Ltd…

Aracruz Celulose counts on HR when the going gets tough: Locals cast icon of best practice as the villain in 30‐year land dispute

Illustrates how good HR practices can help when a company becomes engulfed in conflict with neighboring communities.

Angel grants employees their wish – for time off in return for high performance: New breed of incentives based on what staff really want from their employer

Describes a new breed of HR strategies that encourage employee involvement and commitment as part of high‐performance working (HPW).

Online recruitment connects 3 with top talent: HR specialists “can learn a lot from marketing”

Reveals how mobile‐telephone company 3 is using e‐recruitment to attract top talent in a highly competitive market.

Kowloon‐Canton Railway on track for knowledge: Firm learns how to recognize, share and retain intellectual assets

This paper aims to highlights the importance of knowledge management in modern organizations.

Challenging, flexible – and out of the way of office politics: Interim management could help more women to get into the boardroom

This paper aims to examine the advantages and disadvantages of an interim‐management career for women.

How to get real results from virtual teams: Recognize that people, tasks and technology are different but equal

This paper aims to examines why a high percentage of virtual teams fails to deliver, and considers how the problems can be overcome.

Interview with Xavier Gilbert, Bettina Büchel and Rhoda Davidson

Eight Steps to Building Innovating Organizations

People management - be bold!

Maternity plan delivers the goods

Better together (management-union partnership)

Scheme boosts skills for growth (call centre training)

A model for outsourcing HRD

Effecting successful change management initiatives

What's on the web

Workplace Learning and Development: Delivering Competitive Advantage for Your Organization

Diversity Management and Discrimination: Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in the EU

Getting lost in the shuffle (Intel's organizational restructuring)

Mentoring in the millennium: new views, climate and actions

Rock and ore (human resource management at Nucor)

It pays to keep a close eye on your reward schemes

It's a small world (training in overseas operations)

Siemens A&D customer support increases customer satisfaction through effective training and coaching

Reaping rapid rewards from e-learning