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theHRDIRECTOR Issue 70
This issue we speak to
Tony McCarthy
HR Director -British Airways

FEATURES

FEATURING

Organisational Change

Unlocking innovation
Many of today’s business leaders see innovation as the key to sustained business growth. Dr Graeme Ditchburn, research director at Towers Perrin ISR, examines how organisational culture sets innovative organisations apart, suggesting that they have cultures that enable them to generate new ideas, select the products and services that capture the imagination of their customers and launch them before the competition.
The whole world in our hands?
Globalisation is viewed by top executives at leading organisations around the world as an inevitable, but positive, business challenge that is here to stay and growing rapidly, according to an in-depth study of business leaders revealed by EquaTerra and World 50. The findings also reveal that politically - led trade protectionism or a major economic downturn are seen by study participants as the only major threats to the continued growth of globalisation.
The worms are turning
Employees are expected to pull together, with two thirds working unpaid overtime. But half say that this work level is unsustainable, and UK organisations risk brain drain as disgruntled staff plot upturn escape
A world without HR
Hay Group's Russell Hobby asks "imagine 'a world without HR"? Where would we be without HR, can you imagine such a thing?