Benchmarking
Arkin A
People Management, (UK), 19 Feb 98 (4/4)
Start page: 49 No of pages: 2
Looks at the potential for UK organizations to club together to benchmark their operations, setting out the advantages of doing so. Profiles the benchmarking organized by the Financial Services Special Interests Group benchmarking club, indicating how the benchmarking statistics it provides can be used to give organizations a real understanding of problems in their human resource practices. 

New fact files illustrating women’s position in society and setting out priority areas for government action have been launched by the Minister for Women, Joan Ruddock.
She said: “Women tell us they feel that their interests are too often ignored, that they feel disconnected from Government and excluded from or on the margins of decision making. 

Sub-National Politics in Britain
Clive Gray, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Administration, De Montfort University, Leicester
This book analyses the politics of the vast range of organisations that make up the public sector away from Whitehall and Westminster. It deals with the history, policy-making, and inter-governmental relations of local government, the NHS, quangos and the outposts of central government.