Reskilling when disability strikes
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A survey carried out by the Social and Community Planning Research for the UK government's Employment Service reveals that there are 1,275,000 people in the UK categorized as occupationally handicapped but employed. Seventy per cent were employed when they first experienced deterioration, and of these people, 65% had to leave their jobs, 11% of whom felt they were pressured into leaving or were fired. The survey indicates that many organizations lack the resources to accurately assess recently disabled employees and provide them with the training to make them productive. Enham Village Centre, a charity that assesses the disabled and helps them become productive, has begun offering its services to companies that seek to retrain disabled staff. Enham assesses the disabled employee and offers vocational training and rehabilitation programs tailored to the employee's needs.
Publication Name: Personnel Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0031-5761
Year: 1990
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A springboard to equal opportunities
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The British Broadcasting Corporation Ltd's (BBC) personal and career development program for women in non-managerial positions has been customized for use in other organizations. The BBC's program involves conducting workshop sessions, using a home-study workbook, forming formal and informal networks, using a mentoring system, and involving senior women in the organization. Some 800 of the BBC's female employees have completed the program, which was implemented in May 1989. Grand Metropolitan Foods Europe is one organization that has adopted the BBC's program. The women who completed the course felt that they had increased their self-confidence in ways that influenced their work, which resulted in such actions as enrollment in managerial courses and applications for supervisory positions.
Publication Name: Personnel Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0031-5761
Year: 1991
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Tony Sadler: director of group human resources, Minet Holdings PLC
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The personnel-related views and opinions of Minet Holdings PLC Dir of Group Human Resources Tony Sadler are presented. Sadler believes that the renaming of the personnel management function as human resources management is significant since it highlights a switch in corporate philosophy toward considering employees as human capital. After devolving personnel functions away from the center of the company in the 1980s, Minet is now reconsolidating some of the functions at the group level. Sadler believes that the separate profit center concept is useful, but feels that synergy between subsidiaries' human resources departments is important in order to ensure quality service. Sadler stresses, however, that the subsidiaries will retain a great deal of autonomy.
Publication Name: Personnel Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0031-5761
Year: 1991
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