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Human Resources

How to minimise employee fraud

Forget criminal gangs and shadowy hackers, the prosaic truth is that most frauds are committed by an all-too-familiar face. Nick Britton finds out how you can minimise the risk of insider employee fraud damaging your company.

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Outsourced staff training

Keeping your employees up to speed with the latest training programmes can take up a lot of time you don't really have. Outsourcing may be the answer

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Fit for work

Obesity is a killer, according to the latest furore in the press. So how can you bring health and happiness to your employees?

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How to avoid unfair dismissal claims

Most businesses have at least one employee who doesn't do his job but is never shown the door. Directors frequently bemoan the fact that it is almost impossible to get rid of unproductive staff without paying through the nose, writes Caroline Doran, head of the employment group at solicitor Rooks Rider.

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Work experience that works

Forget pimply youths doing the filing: the right work experience programme can give your business a real boost

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Interviewers turn off job candidates

The majority (56 per cent) of UK jobseekers who left an interview with a bad impression of the hiring company blame the interviewer, according to research from T-Mobile.

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Smile, you’re at work

A cynical workforce can devastate your business as surely as any economic downturn.

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Fewer executives on FTSE boards, but pay rises fast

The number of executive directors in FTSE 350 companies has declined for the fifth year running, according to research from advisory firm Deloitte.

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Smile, you’re at work

A cynical workforce can devastate your business as surely as any economic downturn.

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Fewer executives on FTSE boards, but pay rises fast

The number of executive directors in FTSE 350 companies has declined for the fifth year running, according to research from advisory firm Deloitte.

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Demand for interim managers ‘outstripping supply’

Interim managers have not been in such great demand since the height of the dotcom boom six years ago, according to a survey of 8,000 executives on the books of recruiter Russam GMS. The number of interims on assignments has risen by 5.1 per cent on the previous year, the research suggests.

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War for talent in the City

Strong levels of hiring have been sustained in the City of London during the first half of 2007 and healthy amounts of recruitment activity are continuing into the summer holiday period, according to recruitment firm Morgan McKinley.

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Sensible employee benefits

‘If you start playing around with bonuses, in my experience you end up hacking people off,’ says Louise Hudland, HR director at law firm Shoosmiths.

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A growth story: activ8 intelligence

An executive hire often relies on the raw talent of the recruitment agent or HR specialist to get the right result. One management team that believes it has the answers to the HR enigma is the board of activ8 intelligence, a recruitment technology business that has developed a hi-tech approach to finding staff.