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HR Zone Members Newswire Issue 100
24 May 2005
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1. Editor’s Comment: Innovate or fail?
2. Training Evaluation Part 2 – Methods, models and approaches
3. How Did I Get Here? Jayne Mee, HR Director, Spirit Group
4. News in Brief: The week in HR
5. Any Answers: Error in terms & conditions
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Editor’s note
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Allegedly Rome wasn’t built in a day but that aside a lot can
happen in a week. Our new weekly slot ‘News In Brief’ will bring
you the top stories of the week – digested, hacked and spun out
for your ease:
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/141288
And timing as they say is everything, which is something Jayne
Mee, HR Director at Spirit Group knows all about – starting out
as a dispenser in Boots she never thought she’d make it as an HR
Director – here’s how she did it:
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/141174
Regards,
Annie Hayes
Editor
mailto:editor@hrzone.co.uk
Welcome new members
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This week, HR Zone welcomes members from the following
organisations, among others, to the site:
Exel; Hammerson Management Services; Clarks; Inland Revenue;
Institute for Employment Studies; Scottish Courage; Skillsarena;
IBM; Wood Group; Interim Management Solutions Limited; Cummins
Diesel South Africa; Hitchen Foods Plc; Heart of England;
Matalan; Resource Development International; Portal Software;
Somerset Voluntary Sector Network Ltd; Crown Prosecution Service
Snowdrop’s free HR software roadshow
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Regular features
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Editor’s Comment: Innovate or fail?
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Is the key to success really innovation, after all Royal Mail
has just reported bumper profits but what have they done
differently?
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/141268
Training Evaluation Part 2 – Methods, models and approaches
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In the second of four articles on evaluation, Martin
Schmalenbach ventures beyond Kirkpatrick to look at other
approaches to evaluation.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/140574
Free Renault 24 hour test drive
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If you’re a company car driver you can take the Renault of your
choice for a 24-hour test drive. Just pick the car for you, and
drive. You can go anywhere you like, as long as you have it back
at the dealer one day later. Find out more:
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/redirects/renault.html
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Opinion
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Employee engagement – realism or wishful thinking?
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HR Consultant, Quentin Colborn looks at what distinguishes an
okay place to work from a great place to work.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/141199
Community
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How Did I Get Here? Jayne Mee, HR Director, Spirit Group
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Jayne Mee reveals her secrets of success and opens up about her
role as HR Director of the UK’s leading independent managed pub
operator with 2,000 pubs nationwide and a team of 40,000.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/hdigh
News in Brief: The week in HR
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See our at-a-glance round-up of all the latest HR news including
employment count high, windfall for Royal Mail and Tesco
workers, Sainsbury’s over-50s recruitment campaign, name change
disaster at the DTI and ET applications on the slide.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/141288
Review: Managing Talented People
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My main gripe with the book was its assertion that talent fades.
As a youngish 40-year old, this grated, but, you can see their
point, even if you can’t (like me), agree with it right now.
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/140672
Featured Any Answers question: Error in terms & conditions
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Q: Our Ts & Cs currently state that public holidays will be paid
which is incorrect – what can we do? – Claire Donnelly
See the answer by Peter Duckitt at:
http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/141172
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