management
Business perks under the spotlight
In an age of austerity, cuts and ongoing economic uncertainty, are business perks becoming a thing of the past?
Prime Minister David Cameron has warne...
The Dictionary of Project Management Terms competition
Finance Week is running a competition in conjunction with ESI to win 10 project management dictionaries.
Both sides of the coin: a study in project success and project failure
J. LeRoy Ward, who has helped organisations manage projects for 33 years gives his views on how project management can be good or bad and examines the two sides of the same coin - success or failure. He uses two fictional case studies as exemplars.
Managing a pricing crisis and staying afloat
Eight tips to help financial service providers, and other companies, to find their way out of the financial crisis, stabilise their pricing and look to a stronger future.
Steps to handling cuts in project budgets
In the current economic crisis, project budgets are being slashed. Denise DeCarlo provides some insights on how to best manage and gives 13 steps to help get things back in order after your cost target changes.
Outlook 2009: Private equity managers will become more interventionist
A survey shows that private equity leaders name portfolio improvement as top priority in 2009.
ACT working capital series: An ethical attitude to payments critical
The ACT ran a seminar examining working capital in Manchester recently with another coming up Reading this month. Five of the expert participants gave their views on how to handle a working capital crunch and what to look out for. Below Rachel Chan, chair, Manchester and construction north west branch, Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply gives her view on why companies shouldn't always take the easiest decisions.
Risk management: Getting employees to change behaviour
Management can examine risk and draft all-encompassing and detailed health and safety policies, but what happens when employees' behaviour doesn't reflect the procedures? Jon Crook examines the legal and management problems companies face when attempting to change employee behaviour to reduce the risk. He also offers some solutions.
The Bottom Line:If Mr Cable has his way...
"If Mr Cable had his way, all the big banks would be broken up and bonuses would be virtually eliminated - a sure-fire way in my view of guaranteeing an end to the UK’s ability to compete as an international financial centre. Let’s not forget that this is a man who is on record as saying that everyone who works in a bank has an ‘aristocratic lifestyle’ clearly demonstrating his lack of understanding of the sector." A tough line on bankers’ bonuses could make a brain drain of financial talent a distinct possibility, warns Paul Marsden. Read more