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by Norman Burden, CEO
Norman Burden, CEO of True North, offers some advice to SME owners about whom and how to recruit the best of the Gen Y talent during a recession.
- The theme over the past decade has been all about Gen Y and keeping the SME workplace/force relevant and interesting for a group who are recognised to be very fickle
- Gen Y is increasingly being viewed as the ‘lost generation’ because they are no longer relevant to the workplace/force
- SMEs can capitalise on Gen Y talent by implementing just a few things
by Wanda Goldwag, Non-Executive Chair
Everyone understands how important company culture is in retaining, obtaining and motivating staff and clients but sometimes the original purpose of a company gets distorted and this week a possible example of this was made public when Greg Smith a middle level manager in Goldman Sachs London office resigned in an e-mail message sent to his bosses and copied to The New York Times.
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by Wanda Goldwag, Non-Executive Chair
As the events of the last week show, while many companies have good contingency policies for things such as data back-up, very few have robust policies for what staff should do when they either can’t get into work or it is dangerous for them to travel.
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by Norman Burden, CEO
Employers should review the new legislation now to define a clear policy within their company.
New paternity proposals have recently been made that would mean that from 2015 mothers and fathers would share far more in parental leave.
The really big change would be that both parents could share up to 58 weeks of paternal leave between them and that both could use some of the allowance as they choose at any time throughout the year. The hope is that both parents will genuinely have the option to take leave and share the responsibility for early child care.
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by Norman Burden, CEO
Norman Burden, Chief Executive of True North Human Capital, the Human Capital Management Consultancy poses the question ‘Where have all the good guys gone?’ and why has the service culture evaporated?
We recently employed a nanny and it did not go well. Firstly, she turned out to be economical with the truth which is never an endearing quality for someone you invite to live in your home. Secondly, although her main duty was to look after the needs of our newborn baby son whilst his mum recovered from surgery, she had a strange habit of leaving the baby to wail whilst she chatted on her mobile phone with her friends or surfed the internet.
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by Wanda Goldwag, Non-Executive Chair
New paternity proposals have recently been made that would mean that from 2015 mothers and fathers would share far more fully in parental leave.
The really big change would be that both parents could share up to 58 weeks of paternal leave between them and that both could use some of the allowance as they choose at any time throughout the year. The hope is that both parents will genuinely have the option to take leave and share the responsibility for early child care.
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by Wanda Goldwag, Non-Executive Chair
Lack of Internet privacy, as shown with the breach of super injunctions on Twitter, can also cause problems in the work place.
With the issue of Twitter breaching super injunctions and the privacy of actors and footballers this seems to be a good time to discuss a much more wide-spread problem. The lack of internet privacy means that in just 140 characters you can get yourself fired by your company.
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by Wanda Goldwag, Non-Executive Chair
Employees should have a clear “unambiguous” policy with regards to social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, according to Wanda Goldwag, non-executive chair of human capital management consultancy True North Human Capital.
Goldwag says the policy should cover the following areas:
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by Norman Burden, CEO
Customer loyalty is not a new idea, long before card programmes and sophisticated databases; retailers would extend different credit terms to their best customers and provide extra items of food to regular shoppers at their grocery stores.
As early as 1896 Sperry & Hutchison began providing trading stamps to American retailers who gave them to their customers who then collected the stamps and redeemed them through a catalogue.
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