http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk Institute For Management Services - Eastern Region Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:54:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A half day Seminar-Workshop to be held on Monday 1 December, 2.00 - 5.30pm College Building, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, Hendon, London NW4 4BT Seminar Workshop Series - Corporate Social Responsibility and Development” This seminar workshop will explore the boundaries of CSR by looking at the relationship between CSR and Development in its widest sense, given ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2008/10/07/exploring-the-boundaries-of-csr/ Productivity Productivity growth falls Whole economy productivity and unit wage costs, Annual growth In the first quarter of 2008, whole economy productivity growth (measured by output per worker) was 0.6 per cent compared with the same quarter a year ago, down from a growth of 1.6 per cent in the previous quarter. The ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2008/08/19/153/ Again this year, the United States is first in the rankings of the 2008 IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook, a pioneer in ranking and analyzing how nations compete and manage their path to prosperity, But will the United States’ run continue? In 1989, Japan seemed firmly in the number one position ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2008/05/29/2008-world-competitiveness/ An efficiency drive designed to save 57million is now likely to cost the Departmrnt for Transport [DIT} £81 million, a Government watchdog has found, There was insufficient time to test a new IT system which has proved "unstable" whhen it went live,the report by the National Audit Office said. Transport department staff ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2008/05/23/8qmillion-bill-for-an-efficiency-drive/ Ministers are hoping to cut more than £7 billion from the cost of running the Government with a major review of wasteful public spending. A 12 month efficiency  drive with reviews into different areas of Government spending headed by senior private sector figures has been outlined by. Yvette Cooper, the Chief ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2008/05/13/ministers-target-7-bn-savings/ Dr. Joseph M. Juran, an American industrial engineer and philanthropist, has died from a stroke on February 28 at the age of 103. He was born on December 24, 1904 in Braila, Romania. In 1924, with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota (he would later earn ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2008/03/24/american-guru-joseph-m-juran-dies-at-age-103/ Article Dated: 12 Mar 2008   Reacting to the Chancellor's Budget speech, Richard Lambert, director-general of the CBI, said: "The Chancellor didn't set the Thames alight, but then he didn't have anything to set it alight with. "On the surface there are no nasty surprises, but his growth assumptions are ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2008/03/17/cbi-reaction-to-chancellors-budget-speech/ Alfred Minter, Hon Fellow of the Institute of Management Services, has died at the age of 85. He was a stalwart of the Institute and served on the Council of Management until he reached retirement age. Anyone who met or worked with "Alf" will have their own memories and stories. Alf ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2008/02/27/125/ GDP per Worker Revised data for 2006 (based on the current purchasing power parity (PPP) approach) continues to show the UK's productivity performance, on a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per worker basis, as lower than that of the US and France, similar to that of Canada, Germany and Italy, and ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2008/02/25/international-productivity/ ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2008/01/30/health-care-output-has-risen-but-productivity-fell/ Sir John Harvey-Jones who died on Wednesday aged 83, was a flamboyant chairman of ICI who later turned himself into a television celebrity as"The Troubleshooter", dispensing frank advice on the art of management After a career in the  Navy. He joined ICL on Teeside, recruited by the head of the Work ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2008/01/11/sir-john-harvey-jones/ Whole economy productivity and unit wage costs, Annual growth In the third quarter of 2007, whole economy productivity growth (measured by output per worker) was 2.6 per cent compared with the same quarter a year ago, up from a growth of 2.5 per cent in the previous quarter. The increase in ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2008/01/08/productivity-growth/ Estimated days (full-day equivalent) off work and associated average days lost per (full-time equivalent) worker due to self-reported work-related illness or workplace injuries, by country and government office region within England. 36Million days were lost overall [1.5 days per worker] 30 million due to work related ill health and ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2007/11/05/health-safety-commission/ Article Dated: 31 Oct 2007   From April 2009, employers with 50 or more employees will have to send in-year employee starter and leaver information on forms P45(1), P45(3) and P46 online, along with similar pension information. And all employers - regardless of how many employees they have ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2007/11/05/hm-revenue-customs-hmrc/ The Better Regulation Executive in the Cabinet Office is driving forward the UK’s radical programme of regulatory reform, delivering real progress for business, the public sector and the third sector. It is:- leading the UK's cross-government simplification programme. Government departments have committed to reducing administrative burdens by a quarter by ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2007/10/05/cut-it/ The Cabinet Office recently announced a further two departments undertaking ‘Capability Reviews’. These are HM Treasury and HM Revenue and Customs.The reviews aim to improve the capability of the Civil Service to meet today's delivery challenges and to be ready for tomorrow's. The reviews will consider capability in the Civil Service ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2007/10/05/capability-reviews/ The results of the 2007 edition of IMD's World Competive Yearbook highlight a big shake-up in economic and business power. Emerging nations are quickly catching up in competitiveness. New companies and new brands are appearing all over the world. They now contest the long standing competitive supremacy of industrialised nations. ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2007/07/03/imd-world-competiveness-2007/ 21 June 2007 A government strategy to reduce bureaucracy for front line workers so that public services can work more efficiently without compromising on standards was published today by Cabinet Office Ministers Hilary Armstrong and Pat McFadden. Announced at a breakfast discussion with frontline public sector workers, the plan sets out how ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2007/06/21/government-strategy-to-reduce-bureaucracy/ What is efficiency? Efficiency does not mean simply cutting expenditure. To explore this, it is worth considering the definition of efficiency and its component parts, inputs and outputs. Efficiency is a measure of how well an organisation uses its inputs to produce its outputs. Inputs incorporate all the resources used to ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2007/06/15/defining-efficiency/ Public Sector Employment falls in Q1 2007 Quarterly changes in Public Sector Employment, United Kingdom, Seasonally Adjusted Public sector employment decreased by 10,000 (seasonally adjusted) in the first quarter of 2007 to 5.787 million.In central government employment decreased by 8,000 in the first quarter 2007 and in local government it increased by 2,000. ... http://www.imseasternregion.co.uk/2007/06/15/105/