Purpose – Focuses on the strategic role that human‐resource management should play to help to ensure organizational success. Design/methodology/approach – Warns managers against abdicating responsibility for leading their people, and HR specialists against empire building. Highlights how...

Purpose – Considers how Bill Day, owner of ocean‐salvage company Seaworks, deals with issues of trust and employee disengagement. Design/methodology/approach – Incorporates findings from an interview with Bill Day and literature on the areas of trust, employee disengagement and the need...

Purpose – Examines the recruitment and talent‐management policies introduced at Indian pharmaceutical company Bupharm, which are helping the organization to compete for talent with some of the industry's major multinationals. Design/methodology/approach – Describes how the company came to...

Purpose – Evaluates the advanced‐entry adult‐apprenticeship scheme that Thiess Kentz construction company in Australia introduced in partnership with group‐training organization East Coast Apprenticeships and public training provider Skills Tech Australia. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – Details major reforms at EMI, including a significant cut in the number of employees, following a private‐equity‐firm buy‐out. Design/methodology/approach – Focuses on how consultancy firm Penna worked with EMI to implement a “cost‐down, talent‐up” approach, which...

Purpose – Describes how the UK logistics division of Norbert Dentressangle has teamed up with the University of Northampton Business School to offer the two‐year degree to the company's talented first‐line and middle managers. Design/methodology/approach – Details the origins of the...

Purpose – Details the two‐year Lex Talent program, which helps the contract‐hire provider of company cars and vans to develop people to lead the business in the future. Design/methodology/approach – Describes the content of the program, including core and specialist placements, coaching,...

Purpose – Describes how carefully targeted training improved the productivity of a UK insurance company's sales team and increased the number of calls it handled by 56 percent. Design/methodology/approach – Explains how the use of external consultants helped Moorhouse Group Ltd to identify,...

Purpose – Describes how CDW Corporation, Illinois, USA – a fast‐growing company with a young workforce, many recruited straight from college – relies heavily on mentoring to provide the rapid learning and flexible skills it needs to succeed in the fast‐changing technology sector....

Purpose – Examines the role of modern apprenticeships in helping to fill skill gaps at Aberdeen‐based Enterprise Engineering Services. Design/methodology/approach – Draws extensively on the views of the company's managing director. Describes the personal experiences of two apprentices....