OD Net becomes ODNetwork
The OD (Organiational Development) Network web site has moved to http://www.ODNetwork.org. “This is the first step of a series of exciting changes in our Internet-based services. Our work reflects many requests and suggestions and the work of the OD Network Task Force, as well as successful ideas from leading professional societies. More changes, many in […]
Turn employees into saints?
An extensive article in the December issue of HR Magazine written by Susan Wells reports on some recent surveys into attitudes towards maintaining ethical standards in the workplace and what can be done to enhance a more ethical approach amongst staff. Although based on US research, the article poses some challenging questions – in particular, […]
Creating the next generation of healthy organisations – workshop report
Transcript of the TrainingZone Online Workshop, 1 December 1999, facilitated by David Firth, author of The Corporate Fool. Shall we kick off chatting? Healthy organisations? What are they and how do we create them? I’d like to start by talking a little about why we’d bother with HOs. With my clients I promise to explore […]
‘Developing Agile Organisations’ by Mike Woodcock and Dave Francis
Developing Agile Organizations; Theory and interventions by Mike Woodcock and Dave FrancisGower, 1999. A4 ringbinder, 356 pages, £195. ISBN 0 566 07640 3.Another collection from these two prolific authors, from the title aimed at organizations, but in practice the activities are a set of exercises and questionnaires for individual management development. The 35 ‘activities’ are […]
‘Averting Aggression: Safety at Work’ by Owen Booker
Averting Aggression – Safety at Work with Adolescents and Adultsby Owen BookerRussell House Publishing, 4 St Georges House, The Business Park, Uplyme Road, Lyme Regis, Dorset DT7 3LSPublication date: 1999 ISBN: 1-898924-56-2Price: £12.95This book is outwardly advertised as being for those who work in social or youth work, education, residential care, youth justice, the police, […]
Livening up lunch breaks with literature
If the scheme had a slogan, it might be “the company that reads together succeeds together”. At least 100 workplace reading groups have grown out of “Orange Talks Books at Work” – this year’s education initiative from the Orange Prize for Fiction, and part of the government’s Year of Reading – and have brought some […]
“Branding” HR: Why and How to Market Your Image
If you want HR to be perceived as more strategic, more valuable, more credible, more whatever, you need to start thinking like a business with a product and market your overall brand image, says Shari Caudron in this week’s Workforce Online.Take a moment and think about human resources in your company as if it were […]
Hot topics in HRD – and whose responsibility?
Two interesting contributions from the UKHRD discussion list:Interesting Survey Results.From: “Bhatia Samir” I had asked the list members to send me their estimates of the training trends. I got 27 replies mainly from respondents in USA and UK. The brief results are as follows:The 3 hot topics currently (in decreasing order of no. of responses):Communication […]
‘Networking for Development’ by Paul Starkey
Networking for Development,by Paul StarkeyLondon: IFRTD, 103 pages, 1998. ISBN 1 85339 430 0.In ‘Networking for Development’, Professor Paul Starkey provides a very readable and thought-provoking analysis of the place of networking in the process of development. The book is divided into two parts. In part one, drawing on his own extensive experience in animal […]
Taking their own medicine: how Lotus is using LearningSpace
Lotus Development is a leading edge knowledge management company. Its range of products and services helps organisations all over the world to work and learn together more effectively. Lotus is also committed to utilising the power of its own innovations, such as LearningSpace, to enable its people and its business to grow and develop.“We use […]
HR Journals (JMP & ER) Available Free Online
The Journal of Managerial Psychology covers the full scope of topics in its field including: leadership; strategic management; selection and assessment; innovation and change; performance management; team management; entrepreneurship; occupational stress; employee motivation; and conflict management.Employee Relations covers a broad range of employment issues including: communication, participation and involvement; developments in collective bargaining; equal opportunities; […]
The Virtual Conference Centre
The Virtual Conference Centre provides the opportunity for free global research and discussion in a variety of topics.As part of a programme of expansion, the Virtual Conference Centre warmly invites you to host a conference on a topic of your choice, with proceedings published in a leading MCB journal. The Virtual Conference Centre provides the […]
Networking with The Consultants’ Network
The Consultants’ Network – a network of around one hundred self employed training, personnel and management consultants (including a number of learningwire subscribers) has gone on-line @ Membership of the network is free! They have a national membership, although most of the membership is based within two hours of Milton Keynes. They […]
MCB University Press launches major training programme
Committed to training MCB University Press is embarking on a major training initiative designed to develop every member of staff to meet the challenges anticipated in the future. The company, founded in 1967, employs 150 people at its head office in Bradford, UK and also provides work for over a hundred sub-contractors in Britain and […]
Charles Handy on ‘trust and leadership
In the most recent issue of the Linkage Inc newsletter, Charles Handy, management guru and broadcaster, shares his thoughts about trust and leadership within organisations. In the most recent issue of the Linkage Inc newsletter, Charles Handy, management guru and broadcaster, shares his thoughts about trust and leadership within organisations.
Are there any small consultancy companies who have experience of Business Appraisal?
We have been invited to tender for the opportunity to review the current business and operations of a local council. The review will include analysis of the draft business plan, analysis of cost and income structures, analysis of current staffing levels & skills, assessment of current operational performance against contractual standards & industry practice and […]
Collaborate ’99 – organisations of the future – online event
The OD Network website is running a major event from 1 – 19 November entitled ‘Collaborate ’99 – organisations of the future’.The introductory blurb states:“Join hundreds of participants from all over the world for our three week collaborative and interactive exploration of the future of organizations and impacts on the Individual, the Organization and the […]
Can you help me develop a model of successful company mergers?
I have just finished working on my year placement with a company in the Timber Trade called Bligh Hunter, two companies Bligh Boards and Hunter Timber merged during the year. I am now back at university in my final year and I am writing my dissertation. This is a critical evaluation of the merger process, […]
Appreciative Inquiry: Can it change the way we change?
In an feature article in the November issue of Training Journal, Liz Mellish guides readers through the Appreciative Inquiry approach, which can result in participants influencing and determining their own preferred futures. “As organisations have evolved from the centralised functional hierarchies of the 1970s, through decentralised business units of the 1980s, to matrix structures of the […]
Can you suggest ways of identifying possible risks in a project plan?
Can anyone provide alternative, practical methods of identifying (not analysing or managing) possible risks in a project plan, other than brainstorming? Thanks. Steve BrandAll suggestions to Comments below please. Can anyone provide alternative, practical methods of identifying (not analysing or managing) possible risks in a project plan, other than brainstorming? Thanks. Steve BrandAll […]
