Salaries and the Single Market

Article Abstract:

The International Personnel Management (IPM) and the IDS have recently published a guide for managing pay and benefits in the EC. The guide makes it clear that, although the Community has laws governing personnel management practices, such practices are not uniform across all member states. Most of these countries refer to EC laws when developing their pay and benefits packages, but significant national and cultural differences still exist in how compensation is administered. The European Commission makes it a point not to interfere with issues relating to national pay agreements and is seeking only to suggest pay that would allow workers to live decently. In view of the diversity of personnel practices in the EC, the IPM/IDS guide avoids recommending any single approach to developing a pay and benefits program but is attempting to explain to practitioners that kind of background against which pay packages have to be designed.

Publishing industry, Europe, Social policy, Compensation management, European Union, Institute of Personnel Management, European Community

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Certified competent

Article Abstract:

Safeway has become the first UK organization to become accredited by the Management Charter Initiative (MCI) for its competency-based management training program. Management trainees who complete the training program successfully receive MCI certificates of competency. The approximately 350 management trainees who enter the program each year must master 40 different competence areas, including delicatessen management, inventory control, and the maintenance of operations. Trainees spend the first few months of the graduate program becoming familiar with all of the departments in a store, and they move through the various departments over a six-month period. Successful trainees then spend several years in becoming a store manager.

Grocery stores, Case studies, Grocery industry, Safeway PLC, Training, Management training, Competency based education

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Profile: Denise Lincoln

Article Abstract:

Personnel professional Denise Lincoln has developed a combination of strong commitment to being a best practice employer and cognizance of the commercial aspects of multinational businesses through the course of her career. She will employ this combination of talents in running the human resources activities of UK-based multinational Laura Ashley, where she has been appointed global human resources director. Lincoln's career started at Aspro Nicholas and has taken her to several organizations, including Bestobell, Rank Xerox and Grand Met. Lincoln believes that the contribution personnel can make in enhancing a company's profitability is now being realized by more businesses.

Management, Officials and employees, Human resource directors, Lincoln, Denise, Laura Ashley Holdings PLC

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