Human Resource Management International Digest: Volume 17 Issue 5

Leadership as meaning‐making

This paper aims to explore leadership from a cognitive perspective as a meaning‐making activity. Proposes that a primary role of leadership is to bring meaning to working life…

Success through succession at Hudson's Bay Company: Talent‐management system proves its worth in a takeover

This paper aims to highlight the success of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) talent‐management and succession strategies.

Bosch builds a talent bank of ex‐employees: Scheme wins award for innovative HR

This paper aims to describe how Bosch Management Support helps the Bosch Group to reclaim the knowledge and experience of its former employees, by enabling them to come back to…

Diversity pays dividends for Lloyds TSB: Winning course improves communications with ethnic‐minority customers

This paper aims to describe how training by UK‐based consultancy Winning Communications Partnership helped Lloyds TSB Business Banking relationship managers to reach the…

Network Rail managers take the right track: Development programs help to change the organizational culture

This paper aims to examine the role of management training in helping to transform the organizational culture at Network Rail.

Southern coaches managers in a better way of working: Training and development help rail company to improve organizational culture and performance

This paper aims to examine how an award‐winning coaching program has helped to transform the organizational culture and improve performance at UK train operator Southern.

Highways Agency puts traffic officers in the driving seat: Two training programs help patrols to cut motorway congestion

Details two training programs for Highways Agency traffic officers, which were recognized in the latest UK National Training Awards.

Training team shines at AXA Sun Life: Staff development adapts to economic downturn

This paper aims to focus on improvements in the regulated‐sales training team at AXA Sun Life.

When match‐making forms part of the company agenda: Organizational play and employee creativity in China

This paper aims to examine, from an insider's perspective, the ways in which Chinese organizational play may develop employee creativity.

Sisterhood in short supply in the workplace: It's often the women who hold back their female colleagues

The purpose of this paper is to put forward the view that the glass ceiling will remain in place so long as women continue to hinder the progress of their female colleagues in the…

Recruiting a Web 2.0 workforce: A University of Glamorgan perspective

This paper aims to shed light on the relationship between the University of Glamorgan vice‐chancellor's vision for e‐learning and actual recruitment practice.

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Interview with Dr Anne Marie McEwan

Teaching in the Global Business Classroom

Gene Y in the workforce

Once upon a time there was an organization: organizational stories as antitheses to fairy tales

Birds of a feather (quality management and health and safety)

Gearing up for the Christmas shutdown

Employer engagement: the critical role of employee commitment

A Manager’s Guide to Coaching: Simple and Effective Ways to Get the BEST out of Your Employees

When should a process be art, not science? (process standardization)

Defixation as an intervention perspective: understanding wicked problems at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Successful IT start-ups’ HRD practices: four cases in South Korea

Extreme makeover: training edition