Hendry C, Woodward S, Bradley P, Perkins SHuman Resource Management Journal, (UK), 2000 Vol 10 No 3
Start page: 46. No of pages: 17
Argues that the link between rewards and performance is not perfectly understood in UK organizations. Believes that there needs to be more clarity concerning the definition of performance, whether it is measurable and how it can be improved before human resource management can be expected to develop an effective reward system to encourage it. 

The first regional development plan to follow a new, more inclusive and robust process has just been published for an area of England.Regional Planning Guidance (RPG) for East Anglia - including the dynamic Cambridge sub-region - comes just days after Stephen Byers expressed concerns that some areas of England might be lagging behind in the digital revolution (Publicnet Briefing, Wednesday, November 22, 2000)
East Anglia is clearly not one of them - the pressure here is how to manage the massive growth of a research and technology based economy while still protecting the environment. 

New survey material about the level of drugs use among teenagers has been seized by Anti-Drugs Co-ordinator Keith Hellawell as evidence that the current policies are working well.Two-and-a-half years into the Government’s ten year drugs strategy, new information from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) indicates that 85 per cent of teenagers have not tried drugs. 

There’s a warning from local government that extra money being pumped into the NHS may not solve the winter pressures problem.Winter planning officers for local councils have voiced concerns over staff, resource and funding shortages.
There is a particularly acute shortage of care staff, particularly those in basic grade posts. 

There is evidence that the Ministry of Defence’s implementation of ’smart procurement’ has begun to mean more control of its costs, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).But its current major projects continue to drift on cost and on being delivered on time.
The NAO Major Projects Report 2000 covers 20 projects already begun before the introduction of new acquisition procedures. 

Coyne I, Bartram DHuman Resource Management Journal, (UK), 2000 Vol 10 No 3
Start page: 38. No of pages: 8
Surveys a random sample of 1,000 UK personnel managers about their perceptions of the level of dishonesty in their workplaces, the importance they place on honesty and integrity, and the measures taken to assess honesty in the selection process. 

Kakabadse A, Kakabadse NBrings a practical edge to leadership theory. 

Until now the Cinderella of the education make-up of England and Wales, further education has now discovered its role in Labour’s modernised service.FE colleges will be at the heart of the drive to meet the skills and productivity challenge of the new economy.
David Blunkett has unveiled a three-part plan involving investment of 100 million pounds over three years for colleges to become regionally and nationally recognised vocational centres of excellence in their chosen specialist areas. 

New figures show that regional inequality may be enhanced rather than reduced by new technology.The phrase ‘north-south divide’ may well be superseded by ‘digital divide’ to denote those areas where business start-ups and e-commerce capability is booming, and those where it is not.
The new divide is not as easy to define geographically, with different areas of London for instance proving to have startlingly different levels of growth. 

An information assault is planned this week to persuade the public to volunteer for public appointment.An important element of the campaign is to persuade people that such appointments aren’t achieved through membership of the right golf club.
Public Service Week is the brainchild of the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments (OCPA).