Human Resource Management International Digest: Volume 23 Issue 4

Lonely are the brave: When the organizational culture clashes with individual beliefs

– Highlights the notion of a dominant organizational culture and examines what can happen when this conflicts with an individual employee’s set of beliefs.

Everest sales staff learn at home-from-home: Training academy replicates where most selling takes place

Describes how a home-improvement company that seeks to “rewrite the rule book in its sector” has opened a dedicated training center whose design replicates customers’ homes where…

Employees master the Nuances of travel retailing: New learning system helps staff to stay up to date

– Examines how travel retailer Nuance keeps its employees up to date in terms of specialized sales techniques that are appropriate for its sector.

Barclays blazes a trail on apprentices: Pioneering scheme opens route to a banking career

– Considers the new Trailblazer apprenticeships being offered by Barclays and Santander.

Stoke achieves transformation through coaching: Therapy sessions play key role in organizational change

– Shows how Stoke City Council has transformed its working culture by training employees to give coaching and therapy sessions to colleagues.

Diversity in engineering takes off with Airbus award: Prizes go to proven initiatives in the field

– Describes how Airbus has joined the Global Engineering Deans’ Council (GEDC), a worldwide forum for excellence in engineering education, to run the GEDC Airbus award.

Conversations become courageous at Standard Chartered: Bank’s leadership initiative encourages tough talk

– Evaluates the impact of an executive-development program at Standard Chartered Bank. Identifies the contribution of the different program phases to its impact.

Working to your strengths: Pharmaceutical firm’s choice for change

Sets out ways in which a pharmaceutical company embedded a strengths-based approach to the assessment and development of field-based staff during a period of structural and…

Individuals, teams and organizations score with gamification: Tool can help to motivate employees and boost performance

– Explains how gamification can help to motivate employees and boost individual and organizational performance.

Implementing an employee career-development strategy: How to build commitment and retain employees

– Demonstrates how to build commitment and retain employees through a career-development strategy.

Employers hire for attitude and train for skill: Enthusiastic candidates often land the offer of a job

– Lays emphasis on the importance of presenting a positive attitude to grab an offer of employment.

Myths and truths about coaching: How to acquire right perspective to enhance leadership excellence

– Demonstrates how to acquire right perspective to enhance leadership excellence.

Taking obesity into account: Why it pays to nudge employees into losing weight

– Considers the implications of the latest European Court of Justice ruling that obesity can be considered a disability.

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