Transnational industrial relations

The company’s motives. The department in charge of production for AstraZeneca in Sweden was worried about the increased number of accidents and occupational diseases on the sites. The problem was...

15 March 2010

Corporate practices: Pekkaniska, large Finnish lifting company, is paying employees to improve their health

Unions view the implementation of policies aimed to significantly improve quality of life at work as a necessary requirement for a possible agreement on the extension of careers. However, even...

10 March 2010

Companies: 5th Hewitt Associates report for the European Club for Human Resources shows gradual return to investment into human capital in 2010

Management of the crisis and post recession measures. Leonardo Sforza, head of EU affairs and research at Hewitt Associates and author of the study, thinks 2010 will be a transition year. He said...

4 March 2010

Corporate practices: BMW launches the “Produktionsystem 2017” project, assembly lines adapted to demographic ageing

All manufacturing firms on the old continent are now wondering the same thing: how can we keep improving production rhythm and quality with experienced but ageing workers? Bavarian carmaker BMW...

11 February 2010

Deutsche Bank: banking group to increase the fixed wages of all its employees throughout the world

Administer the law while remaining competitive. Without confirming the figures given by the daily, a DB spokesman explained that the bank was currently revising its remuneration system and...

22 January 2010

Daimler: official launching of Gl@d, the network of gay employees of the German carmaker

40 employees create GL@D against discrimination. Johanna Kosler and Jorg Sikorski, employees at Daimler, initiated the Gl@d network with the support of the Diversity Management department. In a...

29 September 2009

Business: is teleworking bad for productivity?

technologies, remote work and networks increasingly influence labor organization, Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) presented his...

7 July 2009

Google: search engine follows HR to fight against “brain drain”

or user of highly-skilled workers, brain hunt is a daily sport, sometimes dangerous for the businesses affected. To limit the risks of loosing in creativity and competitiveness in the long run...

2 July 2009

Siemens: the German multinational launches a real policy on diversity management

ng the Chinese Jill Lee to the post of “chief diversity officer,” Siemens announced the launching of several internal networks in charge of promoting women and young managers of high...

9 April 2009

Corporate Practices: Deutsche Post awarded for its health management system

Already praised several times by economic newspapers, Deutsche Post World Net's corporate health management program received, on December 2, a new award - the "German Corporate Health Award." It...

11 December 2008

Corporate Practices : Boehringer Ingelheim Italia’s project to support return to work after a parental leave

The pilot-project carried out by Boehringer Ingelheim Italia to support the return to work, by means of a welcoming course for employees coming back from a parental leave and of the support of...

22 August 2008

Corporate practices: Daimler’s “production learning system” to fight against the impact of demographic ageing

Introduced in 2004 in the Mannheim factory, the "Produktion Lern System" allowed to quicken and dynamize training courses and processes on an industrial site faced with many experienced workers...

9 July 2008

Corporate practices : the Finnish firm Itela Oy and the employment of immigrant workers

Itela Oy records sales of 1.688 billion €, mainly in postal services (51% of sales), logistics (36%) and the information sector, particularly the electronic processing of documents and invoices...

11 June 2008

Lafarge: safety month in all the sites of the group

The French group Lafarge (90.000 employees), world leader in construction materials, will organize, in June, a "safety month" in 76 countries where the group is present. At every site, "one or...

3 June 2008

Corporate practices : the German group Henkel boosts and internationalizes its corporate diversity management policy

Henkel illustrates the human diversity policy of the group at its site in Vienna. There, the firm has set up its headquarters for Austria and the east European countries. 10.000 people of 33...

2 June 2008

Corporate Practices : R8 “Silver Line” project and “Demographic concept” at Audi

In 2006, 54.44% of Audi's staff was older than 39 and 16.98% over 50. In 2012, 1/3 of employees in the production division will be older than 50. At the same time, retirement age was brought up to...

29 April 2008

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