Surveys
HPA highlights foreign travel-related illness risk
Source: Occupational Health
Date: 01/02/2009
Those visiting friends and relatives in Africa and the Indian subcontinent account for a disproportionate amount of travel-related infectious disease imported into the UK, according to a new Health Protection Agency (HPA) report, largely because they are less likely than other travellers to seek pre-travel advice or to take appropriate precautions.
International: Call centre employment and HR practices examined
Source: European Employment Review
Date: 12/07/2007
Research published in May 2007 analyses employment and HR management in call centres in 17 countries worldwide. It finds that the widespread view of call centres as “electronic sweatshops” with low pay, poor quality of work and little collective representation of workers is not true in all countries and types of call centre.
Average £90,678 a year for HR directors
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 18/05/2007
Salaries for HR directors continue to lag behind those for finance and marketing directors in most countries, according to the 2007 Global Pay Summary published by Mercer Human Resources Consulting.
UK HR second in global pay league
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 04/04/2006
HR directors in the UK are the profession's second highest earners worldwide, but still lag behind their peers in finance and marketing.
Highest pay rises forecast for employees in Lithuania
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 28/01/2005
With pay rises of 11.4%, employees in India are expected to enjoy the highest pay increase in 2005, according to the latest annual global compensation survey from Mercer.
2004 pay rises to outstrip inflation
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 19/12/2003
Pay rises in most countries are likely to exceed national inflation rates by between one and 3.5 percentage points next year, according to the latest annual global compensation report from Mercer HR.
Recruiting and employing foreign workers
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 21/02/2003
As an increasing number of employers extend their search for scarce skills further afield, we report on the main developments affecting the migration of overseas staff.
Case studies
International: Volkswagen agrees worldwide participation rights
Source: European Employment Review
Date: 17/12/2009
Volkswagen, the Germany-based automotive multinational, signed an agreement in October 2009 that guarantees employee participation rights in its sites around the world. The rights include information, consultation and German-style co-determination.
International: Bargaining on CSR and workers' rights at Inditex
Source: European Employment Review
Date: 28/10/2009
Inditex, a major Spain-based fashion multinational, signed a worldwide agreement on workers' rights in its commercial and distribution operations in October 2009. In 2007, it had signed a similar accord for its manufacturing operations, including external suppliers, and the new agreement underlines the company's commitment to engaging trade unions in its global corporate social responsibility (CSR) approach.
International: DNV sets up global employee forum
Source: European Employment Review
Date: 15/10/2009
DNV, a risk-management services multinational based in Norway, has set up a global employee information and consultation forum. We look at the DNV case and at other companies that have established "world works councils".
Offshore tranquility
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 09/10/2007
Russell Martin, human resources (HR) director at the UK's largest insurance firm Norwich Union (NU), part of Aviva, doesn't much like the fact that his industry is renowned for grey, humourless people bent over columns of figures.
A whole world out there: managing global HR
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 29/12/2006
While some of the challenges for HR professionals are common regardless of geography, effective international HR management demands a different perspective, our research finds.
A passage to India: offshoring in financial services
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 16/09/2005
We talk to three major financial services employers about the challenges of recruiting, training and motivating employees on the other side of the world who represent their brands to UK customers. We also look at why the AA has decided not to offshore work to India.
Don't offshore your problems, says BT Retail
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 26/11/2004
As the CBI argues that firms are feeling greater pressure than ever to offshore business activities, the experience of BT Retail points to the importance of tackling the misgivings of employees and customers head-on.
What makes Indian call centres tick?
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 29/04/2003
DeeDee Doke travelled to Bangalore and New Delhi to see how major operator Wipro Spectramind is using people development to deliver a competitive service and put the integrity back into business in India.
