Total Employment Relationship Management

25 y o and still kicking It suddenly dawned on me towards the end of last year that my TERM model is 25 years old. (“What is he talking about?” I hear you say.) Back in the olden days in the mid 1990s, one of my clients mentioned his company’s employer brand. That struck me
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Shareholder Value: the Elephant in the Room

We have seen many management mantras over the years: Total Quality Management; Just-In-Time Procurement; Six Sigma; Customer First; the Learning Organisation; Balanced Scorecard; and many more. But the most pervasive, insidious and dangerous is Shareholder Value. In principle there’s no reason why shareholders shouldn’t derive benefit from the investments they make and risks they take,
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