The short, sharp shock approach to secondment
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Human resources professionals consider secondment a good venue for management development, but lack the resources for a traditional secondment placement. The Action Resource Centre (ARC) is encouraging private businesses to transfer skills and resources to the voluntary sector by promoting short-term secondment placements. Nationwide Anglia (NA), with the help of the ARC, has begun two pilot secondment programs as a means of both helping the local community and developing management trainees. The program effectively removes secondment from the corporate affairs department and puts it in the personnel and training departments. The NA schemes are innovative in that they are for a short duration and designed to complete a particular project. The ARC wants to encourage the idea of short-term secondments not as corporate charity but as part of a company's structured management development program.
Publication Name: Personnel Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0031-5761
Year: 1990
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David Kitchen: personnel director, BUPA
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BUPA Health Services Ltd's Personnel Director David Kitchen is tasked with turning the ailing medical insurance division of BUPA into a successful and profit-earning unit. Manpower development and the cultivation of inherent organizational strengths is inherent in Kitchen's strategy for organizational change. Kitchen's successful turnaround in 1984 of Johnson Matthey PLC has been his greatest challenge to date and is proof of his skills as a change agent. Kitchen sees himself functioning as a coach in BUPA's turnaround. The plan will involve the installation of a state-of-the-art information technology system, the enhancement of existing products and services offered, and the introduction of new products that will combine health insurance benefits with access to healthcare facilities.
Publication Name: Personnel Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0031-5761
Year: 1992
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