Opinion Pieces

  • Diversity and 'localisation' in the Middle East

    Here we look at the particular challenges that HR faces in the Middle East, a region of huge economic power and potential and home to a wide range of both international and rapidly growing domestic businesses…

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  • The challenge of the East

    The seemingly inexorable shift of economic power and opportunity to the South and, perhaps even more dramatically to the East has posed a whole new set of challenges to the HR leaders of multi-national…

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  • Building an effective in-house hiring team

    More and more organisations are seeking to gain greater control over the hiring process by building specialist in-house teams to take over the work traditionally done by recruitment agencies. But …

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  • Diversity and the 'cultural richness'

    You may remember our interview in September 2010 with Wayne Davies, HR Director of GE Capital's Global Banking business, looking at how he and the GE team were tackling the challenge of gender diversity…

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  • Impacting business performance

    There seems to be a growing acceptance in the HR community that a genuinely effective people strategy can only be delivered if there is complete buy-in from the business itself. But getting this almost…

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  • Effective HR strategy - not as difficult as you might think?

    The challenge of implementing and running a truly effective HR strategy can be a daunting one for even the most seasoned HR professional. But is the talent management community talking up the difficulties…

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  • Integrating and developing winning talent

    In the world of elite sports there is no such thing as 'good enough' - winners win and losers lose. For the past eight years Keith Hatter of K2 Performance Systems has been helping organisations apply…

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