QWL and health

Fixed pay, a new trend? The remuneration of board members (+52% since 2000) hasn’t been left out of the growing debate on the remuneration of corporate managers (+35% since 2000). In Germany...

8 December 2010

Netherlands: employees are highly satisfied

This number will surely make people jealous across Europe: no less than 78% of Dutch people say they are happy with their current job, and 65% of them say they “keep an eye out” for job offers in...

22 November 2010

Denmark: businesses increasingly use an email policy

Key vehicle blurring the line between private and professional life, with 20% of employees that can’t help write or read work emails at home and 22% that “always or often” check their email on...

11 November 2010

H&M: Swedish clothing line sets up a global financial bonus system to increase employees’ commitment

Special fund for a special financial incentive system. H&M, the Swedish group, markets clothes and cosmetics in about 2,000 stores in 37 countries. It has about 76,000 collaborators and, in...

27 September 2010

Corporate practices: Nordea Finans, the first bank to get the Swedish health label

Give workplaces health certifications. The idea of giving businesses health certifications dates back to 2003 and came from the leader of SEKO (sectoral union in services and communication), Janne...

29 June 2010

Deutsche Telekom: new work-life balance measures

In 2001, Deutsche Telekom signed a company agreement on the establishment of an equal opportunity policy. In 2005, it was followed by the establishment of management structures and diversity...

17 June 2010

Corporate practices: ISS’ diversity policy in Denmark

Focused on giving value to diversity among its employees, from women to immigrants, to seniors and disabled people, not to mention training for long-term jobseekers, as well as traumatized...

27 May 2010

Corporate Practices: Investor AB to promote women’s careers at all levels, including boards

Pro-active policy to recruit women. “This is a key issue. Something must be done to improve, in the end, the number of female leaders” declared Investor AB’s VP, Börje Ekholm, in 2006. This...

27 April 2010

Deutsche Telekom: the German telephone operator introduced a 30% quota of women for its worldwide management

Deutsche Telekom (DTAG) is the first company among the DAX – the Frankfurt stock market – to introduce a quota of women for its supervisory staff, in a country where public authorities have, so...

15 March 2010

Corporate practices: AstraZeneca’s policy for preventing illnesses and accidents banks on one-on-one coaching

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

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