Transnational industrial relations

Since 1984, MAPFRE, the leading insurance company in Spain, has been steadily expanding its business at the worldwide scale. In response to this internationalization process, the company agreed to...

16 May 2013

Great Britain: more and more businesses provide their employees with vocational qualifications

The major high street retailer, the John Lewis Partnership, has announced plans to establish a ‘University of John Lewis’ as part of its expanding range of internal vocational qualifications for...

14 May 2013

Faurecia banks on career development for employees with key positions to ensure business success

The French automotive group Faurecia decided to implement the “supervisors and UAP managers program” in 2010, as part of its Excellence System. Unlike a program aimed at “high potentials”, the...

23 April 2013

Europe: serious games and mobile learning on the rise in vocational training

The latest survey of the Cegos Observatory on widespread vocational training practices in France, Germany, the UK, Spain and Italy, published on March 27, shows that e-learning is on increasing...

27 March 2013

Corporate practices: BSH Spain commits to pushing local young talent into the international arena

The Spanish subsidiary of the Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances Group (BSH) is determined to identify promising recent graduates at the local level and to expand their skills and competencies for...

27 March 2013

Corporate practices: staff wellbeing at the center of the economic strategy implemented by Lån & Spar Bank A/S bank

“Actions on health and the working environment were initiated as a key element in our new strategy to improve basic profits as well as client and employee satisfaction” Keld Thornæs, associate...

29 November 2012

Corporate practices: BMW launches TaLENT, a more flexible training scheme focusing on the talents identified among apprentices

Demographic ageing, production changes - harder to plan than they used to be - and quick technological change are forcing businesses to come up with new HR management and training policies. In...

19 November 2012

Great Britain: Morrisons launches university training for managers

While logistics are becoming increasingly complicated in retail trade, the Morrisons supermarket chain is offering its sales supervisors a degree in management and logistics. (Ref. 120636)

25 October 2012

Corporate practices: how Indra, the IT specialist is promoting female leadership at the highest level in the countries where it is present

120 female employees from Brazil, Philippines, Spain and Venezuela are currently taking part in “Women and leadership”. They share a common feature. All of them are executives or pre- executives...

15 October 2012

Spain: beyond statutory requirements, businesses take innovative equal opportunity measures

Reminder. Spain adopted this law (see our dispatch No. 070315) drawing upon two European directives (2002/173 and 2004/113) on equal opportunities. As a general rule, large companies (250...

24 September 2012

Corporate practices: new agreement on “demography and the creation of a competitive and sustainable personnel structures” for Unilever DACH staff in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Project mostly initiated by the central WC. It took the social partners at Unilever Deutschland four years to reach an agreement on “Demography and the creation of a competitive and sustainable...

13 September 2012

Corporate practices: at Daimler, work-life balance isn’t an all-female issue anymore

Somewhere between a changing table and the production hall. The biggest heavyweight assembly plant in the world, Mercedes-Benz’s site in Wörth, North Rhine-Westphalia, spreads over 2.4000.000...

27 August 2012

Corporate practices: in Kaluga, Russia, Volkswagen is training its own apprentices

Lack of skilled workers. 170 kilometers south west of Moscow, at the gates of the city of Kaluga, is a 400-ha production site, Volkswagen Group Rus, Volkswagen’s Russian subsidiary. Created in...

23 August 2012

Germany: German-style apprenticeship set out to conquer the world

The ‘dual system’ on the fringe of the Atlantic Ocean. In a workshop located one floor above the assembly hall of the American headquarters of the German chainsaw maker, Stihl, in Virginia Beach...

23 August 2012

Corporate practices: ThyssenKrupp steel cuts working time to hire 1,000 apprentices and have younger manpower

Chain restructurings. “Up to 2006, we were mostly concerned with one thing: how can we cut jobs?” explains Veit Echterhoff, in charge of training policy at ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG. And for...

25 June 2012

Corporate practices: to secure the skills needed in the future, Volvo AB Group sets up its own training program for young jobseekers

Recruitment is the new challenge of the coming years. Olof Persson, CEO of Volvo AB Group, says recruitment will be a major challenge for Swedish manufacturing in the years to come. “We’re doing...

9 May 2012

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