THE “4G” future where employees from four generations will work side by side for the first time in history is to be welcomed not feared. However, organisations will be at a disadvantage and experience further skills shortages unless they start planning for the changes now.
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Marks & Spencer and the NHS are totally different organisations doing quite different things. At first glance there appears to be no crossover and no scope for any cross fertilisation of ideas. Peter Garnett thinks otherwise. In this article he teases out the similarities and identifies common concepts, including most importantly, leadership.
The recent announcement that the NHS is to benefit from the private sector experience of Stuart Rose has been seen by some critics as a mixed blessing. It seems that the notion of any experience other than that inbred in the NHS is considered as an irrelevance by some. For example, Christina McAnea, UNISON Head of Health, said: “The truth is that the NHS is fundamentally different from the retail sector where customers can shop, when and where they like” and “…Instead of focusing on the cult of the individual, Jeremy Hunt would be better turning his attention to engaging with staff, patients and their families on how to improve NHS services.”
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In this book Jean-Philippe Deschamps and Beebe Nelson argue that innovation is an essential competence to embed into corporate structure through organizational leadership.
Innovation Governance is a management guide to implementing corporate innovation governance systems. Written by experienced innovation management practitioners, Innovation Governance uses cases from organizations in the US, Europe and Asia. Starting with a broad introduction clarifying what innovation governance means.
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Private provision of public services has become big business, with half of all public spending on goods and services going to private providers of contracted-out services. But action needs to be taken to get a better deal for taxpayers and to improve services.
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The Leicester and Leicestershire City Deal will create thousands of new jobs and apprentices. It aims to halve youth unemployment by establishing the ‘Young Persons Pledge’.
This pledge commits the area to provide all 16 to 24-year-olds with the chance to secure sustained employment, education and training and is underpinned by the ‘to work’ programme.
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The National Wellbeing survey shows that fewer people trust the Government and younger people are less concerned about politics than the older generation.
The National Wellbeing Programme survey is published by the Office for National Statistics. It seeks to measure how well the UK is doing on a series of measures.
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This report from Demos, supported by National Citizen Service, challenges harmful perceptions to show today’s teens are more engaged with social issues than their predecessors.
False stereotyping of young people in the media and wider society is having a negative effect on both their self-esteem and employment opportunities. Four-fifths of teens feel they are unfairly represented in the media. Most of them go on to argue that negative stereotypes are affecting their chances of getting a job.
Alan Gregerman describes a counterintuitive approach to fostering greater innovation, collaboration, and engagement.
Most of us assume our success relies on a network of friends and close contacts. But innovative thinking requires a steady stream of fresh ideas and new possibilities, which strangers are more likely to introduce. Our survival instincts naturally cause us to look upon strangers with suspicion and distrust, but in The Necessity of Strangers, Alan Gregerman offers the provocative idea that engaging with strangers is an opportunity, not a threat, and that engaging with the right strangers is essential to unlocking our real potential.
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The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the Royal Society of Arts are calling on the wisdom of the crowd to help develop a common framework for measuring the contribution people make to business outcomes across the private and public sectors. Initial responses will be received through a social media platform.
Read more on CALL FOR HELP IN MEASURING CONTRIBUTION PEOPLE MAKE TO ORGANISATIONS…
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