Younger managers are seeking a more mature employer-employee relationship, built on empowerment and trust, and less bureaucracy and authoritarianism. This is the conclusion of a survey or managers in the 25 – 35 age group carried out by Chartered Management Institute and PPP Healthcare.Managers are concerned about the long hours they are working and the knock-on effects. Eighty-six per cent work more than their contracted hours with over half working at least five hours a week extra. Only eight per cent keep to their agreed hours. Fifty-eight per cent believe this is affecting their social and leisure life. Sixty-five per cent of those with children believe it is damaging their relationship with them and 57 per cent of those living with a partner are concerned by the negative effects on their relationship.

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Rentokil Initial, the FTSE 100-listed company is to invest 12 million pounds in the Civil Service College residential centre in a deal with the Cabinet Office. The Public Private partnership will include development of a new training and resource center, upgrading of bedrooms and improvements to Northcote House, the stately home built in 1930, which became the College in 1969. The house stands on ground which originally formed part of the Manor of Cookham held by Edward the Confessor.Under the deal, Initial Style Conferences, a subsidiary of Rentokil Initial, will fund and oversee the development of a new training and resource centre, upgrading of bedrooms, and improvements to Northcote House. The training, conference and office facilities will be serviced by Initial Style and leased back to the College. The site will be returned to the Cabinet Office without cost when the partnership expires at the end of 30 years.

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