11th November 2009
An active approach to managing equality and diversity in the workplace can boost business performance and contribute towards the attainment of business targets; Rosabeth Moss Kanter, in 'The Change Masters: Corporate Entrepreneurs at Work' (1994) noted th...
05th November 2009
The high profile Employment Tribunal (ET) case Chagger v Abbey National plc & Hopkins (2006) highlights some of the drivers of unethical corporate behaviour. The ET that heard the case found unfairness and race discrimination; it ordered Abbey Banco Sant...
03rd November 2009
A strong sense of Corporate Social Responsibility in marketing activities can contribute significantly to organisation's efforts to achieve and hold on to business competitive advantage in today's highly competitive and dynamic markets. Corporate Social R...
27th October 2009
The usefulness and benefits of the performance measurement technique of performance benchmarking is illustrated with the high-profile legal case Chagger v Abbey National plc & Hopkins (2006), where the Employment Tribunal found unfairness and racial discr...
23rd October 2009
'Whistle blowing' is the intervention by an employee (the whistle blower) to bring the wrongful acts of his employer to the attention of either the business owners, the authorities, the regulators, the government, or the public (i.e., to 'blow the whistle...
22nd October 2009
The high significance of compliance risk management is illustrated with the high-profile Employment Tribunal case Chagger v Abbey National plc & Hopkins (2006), where the Tribunal found unfairness and race discrimination and (after Emilio Botin Abbey Sant...
20th October 2009
Stress is 'the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on them', according to the UK Government. This definition makes a clear distinction between 'stress' and 'pressure'. Pressure is applied to someone; one pre...
20th October 2009
Compulsory redundancy is the dismissal, by the employer, of an employee for reasons of downsizing the workforce, usually because of a reduction in the business in which the employee was employed; reduction in the kind of work for which the employee was em...
19th October 2009
The employment grievance procedure is illustrated with the high-profile case Chagger v Abbey National plc & Hopkins (2006), where the Employment Tribunal made findings of unfair dismissal and unlawful race discrimination and (following Emilio Botin Abbey ...
14th October 2009
Some principles key to management ethics are highlighted by the high-profile legal case Chagger v Abbey National plc & Hopkins (2006), in which the Employment Tribunal made rulings of unfair dismissal and racial discrimination and (following Abbey Santand...
06th October 2009
Some of the ways in which the UK government influences employment practices are illustrated by the high-profile case Chagger v Abbey National plc & Hopkins (2006), where the Employment Tribunal made the findings of unfair dismissal and unlawful racial dis...
06th October 2009
Business performance measurement is illustrated with the high-profile case Chagger v Abbey National plc & Hopkins (2006), where the Employment Tribunal found unlawful race discrimination and (following Emilio Botin Abbey Santander banking group's refusal ...
30th September 2009
Useful insights into whether challenging your employer is worth pursuing or not are provided by the high-profile legal case Chagger v Abbey National plc & Hopkins (2006), in which the Employment Tribunal found race discrimination and, subsequent to Emilio...
28th September 2009
The unfair dismissal remedy of reinstatement is highlighted by the high-profile UK case Chagger v Abbey National plc & Hopkins (2006) where, after finding race discrimination, the Employment Tribunal took the very rare step of issuing a reinstatement orde...
22nd September 2009
Business operations management control is illustrated by the high-profile case Chagger v Abbey National plc & Hopkins (2006), in which the Employment Tribunal made a finding of unlawful racial discrimination and, after Emilio Botin Abbey Santander banking...
