As has become apparent in the 13 years of the 21st century, social media is here to stay and, more importantly, it has an impact on corporate reputation. Social media is not only one of the key channels for use in corporate communications, its relevance in crisis management situations should not be overlooked. Despite that,…
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Business confidence has taken some severe knocks recently with order books squeezed and bank lending to SMEs remaining stubbornly low but the latest figures from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation suggest that things have levelled off and that hiring prospects are now improving. Jobs Outlook data published last week reveals that employers are more confident…
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A few months ago we focussed a newsletter on the use of social media in business. Well, now a survey of SMEs by the social media marketing firm iContact suggests that small business leaders are in two minds about its value to them. There is a belief that it requires huge amounts of time and…
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Employers who fail to tackle distrust of senior management among their staff risk losing the most talented to other companies, a report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has stated. Of those polled in the quarterly ‘Employee Outlook survey’ over a third (38%) said that they did not trust their leaders when…
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We all know the importance of employee engagement for both productivity and staff continuity. Companies benefit from a workforce that feels intimately involved in the wider project rather than merely their small corner of it. But a recent Monster survey suggests that over two thirds of employees feel that their constructive feedback to management is…
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Sometimes the doom and gloom around the financial markets can seem overwhelming, but there is definitely good news out there and recently the Recruitment and Employment Confederation published encouraging findings on job prospects. It claims that business confidence is on the rise with 74% of employers surveyed are expecting to hire permanent staff in the…
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Just who is in charge of internal communications? Where once the roles of human resources and public relations seemed clearly demarcated and occupied their own spaces, there is an increasing amount of crossover occurring, blurring the boundaries and raising questions of ‘ownership’. While in some firms constructive and collaborative relationships are emerging between the two…
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Leading companies should aim to have at least one in four female board members as part of ‘radical’ changes to increase the number of women at the top of business, according to a government-commissioned review. Former trade minister Lord Davies of Abersoch said that UK listed companies in the FTSE100 should have a minimum of…
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Opportunities in PR and digital marketing are at their highest for 14 months, according to a leading recruiter, with the general jobs market definitely looking up. Reed employment is reporting that there was a significant rise in the number of job opportunities across all sectors in January and February – up 26% on February 2010….
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Closing offices and slashing jobs = bad. Measured approach = better. That’s the (hardly surprising) findings of new research by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM). The poll of 5,000 UK employees found that employees are much more likely to trust a CEO who takes a measured response to the recession, such as introducing…
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