According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS), the 1st quarter of 2016 showed that there are over 31.6M people employed and unemployment is at 5.1%; more people are in work than ever before. Considering women, the employment rate hit a record high of 69.2%, their wages increased over 2% …
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According to Jason Douglas of MarketWatch, the coming Brexit referendum has sparked a fierce debate in the U.K. and abroad over the economic benefits of EU membership, as well as the potential implications if the world’s fifth-largest economy did decide to strike out alone. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and …
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Reinventing Management In Reinventing Management, Julian Birkinshaw offers alternative counterpoints to replace the traditional ways people approach management and business. Arguing that management “failed” after years of corruption and employee disenchantment, Birkinshaw presents compelling arguments for how management can be improved and updated for a new era of business. With a fresh …
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The New Workforce Challenge In The New Workforce Challenge, Andrés Hatum aims to help companies meet the challenge of absorbing the technologically savvy millennial generation into the workforce at the very time that organizations are changing faster than ever before in response to the turbulence they face worldwide. Hatum examines how …
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