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HR should be buried and then given a seat on the board

Bridle, Paul - In: Human Resource Management International Digest 18 (2010) 1, pp. 5-7

success. Design/methodology/approach – Warns managers against abdicating responsibility for leading their people, and HR … specialists against empire building. Highlights how HR should support managers and people to sustain the right business culture …. Findings – Advances the view that the leadership of an organization needs to involve HR and encourage it to make an …

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Seaworks boss makes his point with a chainsaw

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 18 (2010) 1, pp. 8-10

employee engagement are a sense of trust between employees and their managers as well as a sense of personal control. Trust … employees and managers is the managerial reluctance to delegate authority and devolve power. Practical implications – Postulates …

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Golden jobs under the McDonald's arches

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 18 (2010) 1, pp. 36-38

Purpose – Explains that McDonald's UK has become one of the first organizations to earn the new Investors in People (IIP) gold award. Design/methodology/approach – Concentrates on the results of an employee survey carried out in the context of the IIP assessment. Findings – Reveals that...

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The 100 days that transformed HSBC Argentina

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 18 (2010) 2, pp. 6-9

Purpose – Aims to inspire and support leaders wanting to change the culture of large and complex organizations by describing how and why HSBC in Argentina went through 100 days of intense activity, significantly changing the culture of more than 6,000 employees. Design/methodology/approach –...

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Embedding work lessons for life

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 18 (2010) 3, pp. 6-9

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at specific issues that relate to ‘occupational embeddedness’ through which individuals become ‘enmeshed’ in their occupations. Design/methodology/approach – Three hypotheses were tested relating to such issues as employees' core task...

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Plato as personnel manager

Short, Tom - In: Human Resource Management International Digest 18 (2010) 4, pp. 38-41

Purpose – Describes how Plato's philosophy has influenced, and may continue to affect, modern human‐resource management. Design/methodology/approach – Outlines some of Plato's main ideas – including the role of the philosopher king in striving for the ideal – and draws out their...

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Rubicon directors give lessons in leadership

In: Human Resource Management International Digest 18 (2010) 5, pp. 25-26

Purpose – Describes how the former warehouse manager at UK furniture‐installation company Rubicon Developments Ltd was trained to become a top manager and so free the firm's two directors to spend more time obtaining new business and diversifying the company. Design/methodology/approach –...

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Interview with Eugene Sadler‐Smith, author of The Intuitive Mind

by Juliet Norton, Interview - In: Human Resource Management International Digest 18 (2010) 5, pp. 39-41

intuitive mind, offering tools and techniques for developing and deploying informed intuition in leadership and management. …

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Is leadership doomed to fail?

Archer, Stephen - In: Human Resource Management International Digest 18 (2010) 6, pp. 32-34

effective leadership can only thrive when leaders are freed from bureaucracy and organizational process. Practical implications …

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In search of spiritual leadership

Altman, Yochanan - In: Human Resource Management International Digest 18 (2010) 6, pp. 35-38

Leadership. A corporate mystic, her leadership style in her role as principal of Guildford College of Further and Higher … Education, UK, was subject of a PhD dissertation. The achievements of the Centre for Excellence in Leadership under her … leadership (2003‐2008) have been documented in a series of reports and papers and are now a topic for a book (in writing). The …

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