Blessed are the peacemakers

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-18
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – The UK has long been at the forefront of labor relations, from its origins in the Combination Laws of 1799 and 1800 and subsequent repeal in 1824 to the development of trade unions in the Victorian era and the creation of the Labour Party just before the turn of the century. In the post-industrial revolution era, the UK helped hone and mature industrial policies for workers for much of the developed and developing world. Practical implications – The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Cold compress?

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Say what you like about the dictatorial bosses of the Industrial Revolution in the UK, but they did not have to manage the myriad of working options open to the employees of today. Remote working, flexible hours, compressed hours, carer’s leave, and duvet days – you can imagine the ruddy faces the early industrial pioneers would have got, even ruddier if presented with a request from a man seeking to take nine months’ parental leave in place of their partner. As for people wanting to work just a few hours a week to enable them to follow a certain lifestyle or to have more than one job – no, their stove pipe hats would have been thrown to the ground in sheer exasperation. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Industry 4.0 and effective talent management

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 13-15
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Talent Management ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Engineering Industry ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Effective talent management has become more difficult given the unprecedented rate of change triggered by the latest industrial revolution. The impact is especially strong with the UK engineering industry meaning that new and varied ways of developing talent are essential in order for organizations to remain competitive. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Breaking the retail rules

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 32-34
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Point Of Sale ◽  
Massive Point ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds his/her own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – The UK TV sitcom “Open All Hours” is a truly terrible example of convenience retailing. The situation is that of a corner shop in Northern England run by a cantankerous middle aged man with a pronounced stutter, who variously abuses, gossips about or tries to flatter his customers. Inventory is massive, point of sale technology primitive, and as the title suggests, opening hours are long. Hilarity ensues. Practical implications – This study provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and an easy-to-digest format.

Harnessing the inclusive potential of online coaching

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Business Failure ◽  
Barriers To Entry ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Online Coaching ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings This research paper concentrates on the benefits of online coaching for boosting the entrepreneurial self-efficacy of women with business aspirations in the UK. The coaching focused on mitigating business failure through efforts to elevate the female entrepreneurs' self-belief and focus on core goals. The results demonstrate that cultural barriers to entry into entrepreneurship can be overcome by women having access to tailored online coaching, since this can be flexibly arranged around other responsibilities. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Unveiling blockchain as a strategic resource

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Smart Contracts ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings This conceptual paper concentrates on the strategic use of blockchain as a way of organizations gaining ongoing competitive advantages. Moving deeper into the fourth industrial revolution, the organizational advantages of blockchain implementation are the secure, verifiable, peer-to-peer transparency of agreement or communication mechanisms like smart contracts, since they can enhance organizational efficiency and therefore competitive performance. However, blockchain currently remains in a nascent phase on a practical use level, meaning organizations can now strategically prepare to adopt its capabilities in future. This is done by teams educating themselves about blockchain, and by defining problems that the technology could solve. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Green for go

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (8) ◽  
pp. 24-26
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The World ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings As the world approaches the year 2020 – which has been the most looked-forward-to years since the Millennium, offering as it does the opportunity to use “20:20 vision” as a descriptor – it is perhaps useful to look back over those 20 years to understand how far sustainability and environmental concerns have developed with regard to business strategy. While these concerns were prevalent at the turn of the century, they were not mainstream in terms of how they were dealt with by firms, and there was considerable difference in how firms treated them depending on where they were based, how big they were and how it fed into their overall corporate strategy. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

scholarly journals Liability of employers for third party harassment in the UK

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-156
Author(s):  
Sam Middlemiss
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to summarise current law dealing with third party harassment in workplaces in the UK and make recommendations for improving law. Design/methodology/approach Review of case law, articles etc. Findings It is found that the current law is inadequate and unclear, and in dire need of reform. Research limitations/implications This research study will be useful for trade unions and employers and employees and workers. Practical implications This study supports the cause of reform of the law. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this study is an original piece of work.

Is consumer choice a bad thing?

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 26-28
Keyword(s):  
Market Share ◽  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Food Retailing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Discount Retailers ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – Since the Millennium, one of the key trends in European food retailing has seen the rise and fall of major supermarket chains. While still immensely profitable and successful, the likes of Tesco and Carrefour have been unable to replicate early huge gains in this period as smaller, cheaper and more nimble retailers have begun to steal market share. In particular, the UK has seen two classic market phenomena with the rise of Tesco as the biggest retailer sweeping all before, only for a combination of changing buying habits and increased popularity of discount retailers to decimate the market share growth of Tesco and other major operators in the “squeezed middle”. Practical implications – Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Empowering female entrepreneurs

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-22
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Women face a litany of issues when wishing to embark on careers as entrepreneurs. The differences facing women in the UK and Turkey are used to highlight the challenges women face in entrepreneurship. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Gaining the upper hand through innovation

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (11) ◽  
pp. 29-31
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Web Design ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Digital Development ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings When it comes to innovation, the common perception of the kinds of innovation that are effective are often way out of line with what actually creates value for firms. Take the service sector – despite its huge size and domination of mature economies such as the UK, innovation will not be regarded as important outside of web design or digital development. However, there are so many ways in which true innovation can disrupt, revolutionize or create an entire new market in ways that does not involve tech teams at all. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

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