QWL and health

In 2005, SEUR, the leading company for urgent transport and integral logistics in Spain, conceived a "Welcome and Integration Plan" targeted at their new staff, as part of its talent...

20 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

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

Great Britain: new benchmark on FTSE wellbeing

Confrontation tool. Business in the Community (BITC) is an association that promotes responsible business practices. It launched a new benchmark which will measure all FTSE 100 companies...

27 September 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

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

Germany: federal bill on anonymous applications shows extended ‘workforce pool’ with no additional costs

Christina Lüders, Director of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency, said the study’s outcome is definitely in favor of anonymous applications. The test shows that, with similar qualifications...

18 April 2012

Germany: recruitment strategies increasingly rely on employee recommendations

Deutsche Bahn is preparing a general recruitment incentive program. Deutsche Bahn is currently working on a new general recruitment incentive program favoring the recruitment of people...

22 February 2012

Henkel: the German group banks on a work culture focused on performance, not the time spent in the office

An old tradition. The group, which employs nearly 48,000 people in 125 countries, has been committed to families since… 1940! In the middle of the war, the company created its first corporate...

17 February 2012

Germany: Deutsche Bahn managers will have to take better account of employee and customer satisfaction

Unhappy customers and employees. “Profitable growth can only be obtained with enthusiastic workers and satisfied customers. This is why quality and the satisfaction of customers and employees...

1 February 2012

Fraport AG: how the company running the Frankfurt airport takes account of cultural and religious differences between its employees and its customers

Tolerance: a duty and a need. With 12,000 employees from 71 different countries and 56 million passengers from all over the world, Fraport, which runs Frankfurt Airport, the third busiest airport...

23 January 2012

Great Britain: businesses commit to anonymous CVs

Pact. Testo, Barclays, Coca-Cola, Marks&Spencer, Nestlé… over 100 of Britain’s biggest employers in the banking, legal, food or energy industries, employing more than two million people in...

17 January 2012

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