Human Resource Management International Digest: Volume 17 Issue 7

From human resources to human beings: managing people at work

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the drawbacks of viewing an organization's employees as simply “resources”, rather than as individual human beings with their own rights…

Partners learn people skills at Ernst & Young: Nine‐month development program helps to change the organization's culture

This paper aims to describe a leadership‐development program that is being conducted internationally with more than 500 partners at Ernst & Young.

Hillingdon Council employees are healthy, happy … and here: Well‐being package improves staff attendance, engagement and morale

The purpose of this paper is to describe the origins, development and success of an employee well‐being package at Hillingdon Council, London, UK, which has helped to reduce…

Sandwell Homes reduces employee absence by 30 percent: … and boosts productivity, morale and customer service

This paper aims to demonstrate how Sandwell Homes, UK, significantly reduced sickness absence through an absence‐management scheme which, launched in parallel with a series of…

StepStone ET strides towards greater emotional intelligence: Program benefits individuals and organization as a whole

This paper aims to detail why emotional intelligence is important for all organizations.

Odeon earns a gong for management training: Program helps to harmonize cultures, systems and approaches after merger

This paper aims to examine a management‐training program that helped to integrate different cultures, values, operating systems and approaches after the merger of Odeon and United…

Graphic Packaging International slims costs with lean manufacturing: Firm taps into employee creativity and innovation

This paper aims to describe the benefits from lean production at the UK manufacturing plant of Graphic Packaging International.

Policy to workforce plans – a guide to application: The details of an induction course in the NHS

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how the NHS Workforce Review Team's induction to workforce planning course works with attendees on how to extract workforce implications…

Merck salesman “haunted” by his past: The challenge of adapting to a different organizational culture

This paper aims to contrast the cultures of two organizations – the US Navy's nuclear‐submarine force and large pharmaceutical firm Merck – through the experiences of former naval…

Brookhaven involves employees in communication‐management revamp: Relationship‐building creates a “reservoir of goodwill”

This paper aims to examine how, following a leak of radioactive material, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) used risk communication management strategies that resulted in an…

Suits you, sir: Pertemps puts its people in prime position

This paper aims to consider how Pertemps People Development Group (PPDG) uses a gift card management system (GCMS), developed for Asda Business Rewards, to help its clients to buy…

Shine your light: using talent management as a driver for business success

Emphasises the close links between how a company manages its talent and lasting business success.

The dos and don’ts of redundancies

Leading Strategic Change: Bridging Theory and Practice

How to persuade people to say yes

Understanding enterprise system customization: an exploration of implementation realities and the key influence factors

The Adobe leadership experience (US multinational software firm)

What’s on the web

Interview with John Whitmore

Courageous Training: Bold Actions for Business Results

Global Diversity Management: An Evidence-based Approach

Isle of Wight NHS Primary Care Trust: changing a bullying culture

Keeping eastern promise (economic downturn and human resources in south-east Asia and China)

Asda: celebrating religious diversity