As the economy sheds almost 15,000 jobs each week, companies providing welfare to work services are playing a crucial role in stemming the rising tide of youth unemployment.
The latest job figures from UK National Statistics show that unemployment is at a 17 year high with the youth the jobless rate at 21.3%.
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Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan set out a proven system for rallying all of an organizations’ employees around a new vision and ideas for making the vision stick
When something at work isn’t going smoothly, managers struggle with what part of the problem to tackle first. Do they start with cost reduction? Or should they go for process improvements first? The authors—who have helped hundreds of companies and individuals change and improve—say spend time and money adjusting the systems in which people operate, rather than targeting people and their performance directly. They show that it’s in fact possible to change everything at once—with a focus on making such transformations permanent and repeatable.
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There should be a temporary halt to public sector job cuts to stimulate economic growth and combat rising unemployment. This call for the cuts to be halted for several years comes from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in a report published today.
Organisational change and re-structuring across the public sector has resulted in a 50 per cent increase in stress-related absence. Job insecurity is a major contributory cause of stress.
Rising stress levels is a major finding from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Simplyhealth Absence Management survey. The survey found that a combination of cuts to jobs, pension benefits and pay freezes bring pressures which staff are finding difficult to cope with.
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The volume of data available to public sector organisations to allow them to manage more efficiently is growing rapidly. The problem is that the expanding mass of data can lead to a decline in control. Brian Gentile explains how business information systems can dispel this information fog and provide a basis for better decisions.
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London councils are to share a ‘one stop shop’ service for procurment, a move that could potentially help save millions of pounds. Initially the shared service will be used by councils, but later it will allow all public sector organisations in the capital to share services.
The shared services online portal ‘Procure4London’ was launched today. It will allow councils in London to share procurement information, contracts and best practice more easily than ever before. Sharing information in this way will reduce the time and money spent on lengthy, individual tendering procedures.
Participatory Budgeting complements devolution from localism, community budgets and the Big Society. These are all new developments since it came on the scene in 2006. This report describes how it has evolved in a rapidly changing local government landscape.
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The Audit Commission has launched a pilot scheme to help UK banks and credit providers identify fraudulent applications by immigration offenders.
The Commission and the UK Border Agency will share information in ‘real time’ with financial institutions. Each year the UK Border Agency processes around 3.5 million applications to visit, live, work or study in the UK. The aim is to prevent those with no right to stay or work in the UK from accessing financial services. In return, financial institutions will provide the Agency with information on where illegal working and employment is taking place, supporting the Agency’s work in tackling immigration crime.
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