All articles by Duncan Brown – Page 2
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Duncan Brown: What is on your wish list for the Budget on 21 March?
I would like to see more substantive action announced by the Chancellor to encourage employers to provide meaningful work opportunities for young people, with record levels of youth unemployment across Europe being one of the most distressing aspects of our current economic malaise. But the problem is primarily one of ...
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Thought leaders 2010: The year ahead: Fairness the new watchword in reward
†Key PointsThe recession made employers question why they had multiple performance management plansThere is a move towards greater fairness in reward as the gap between rich and poor has been seen to widenCommunication and greater openness will be the most important process in 2010 to ensure fair pay and that ...
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Duncan Brown, director of reward services, Institute for Employment Studies: Fairness is the key for executive reward
The annual reporting season, amidst the current recession and what Lord Turner at the Financial Services Authority called "the biggest crisis in the history of market capitalism", was bound to produce the obligatory headlines we have seen recently criticising executive excess. Shell's executive remuneration report was voted down by investors ...
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Duncan Brown: Reward professionals should focus on four areas
In 1957, The Times reported on a debate about MPs’ pay and expenses. Press headlines in recent weeks have induced a sense of d»j‡ vu in terms of the economic situation. Although we can learn from the past, we need to reinterpret those lessons in our human-capital-driven and talent-scarce economy. ...
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Improved communications leads to reward disappointment.
Duncan Brown: In judging this year’s Employee Benefits Awards there were once again some fantastic examples of highly-creative reward packages. Reward brands involving extensive employee communications are clearly in vogue and illustrate the increasing influence of marketing advisers on reward management.But just how representative are the leading organisations of UK ...
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Reward management is a long-term proposition
In judging this year's Employee Benefits Awards there were once again some fantastic examples of highly-creative reward packages. Reward brands involving extensive employee communications are clearly in vogue and illustrate the increasing influence of marketing advisers on reward management.But just how representative are the leading organisations of UK plc as ...
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With total reward, it's not just about what you do, but how you do it
Research that shows total reward helps meet organisational goals is a little thin, but there is a strong suggestion that high-performing firms use perks to help generate a positive environment that feeds through to customer service.When the author JB Priestley travelled on his English Journey in the mid-1930s, he was ...
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