http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Carole+Spiers Business Management Carole Spiers Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=14675&ca=Business+Management Managing diversity isn’t just a moral and legal obligation, it can present tangible business benefits as well. What is diversity? We in the UK are fortunate to live in a country which is rich in the diversity of its population. Nowadays, your work colleagues might be any age, male or female, from an... Society Carole Spiers Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=14676&ca=Society With the end of ‘a job for life’, the ticking of the demographic ‘time bomb’, and the ever-increasing pace of new technology, employers are having to consider a wide range of new working patterns that take account of this rapidly changing work climate. So what is the government’s position on these n... Business Management Carole Spiers Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=14677&ca=Business+Management Events such as the Asian Tsunami, and the terrorist attacks in London, have focused the minds of the public on the issue of post trauma stress. But while the need for post trauma support and counselling for those directly affected by events such as these may be apparent, there are many more people w... Business Management Carole Spiers Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=14678&ca=Business+Management Building a resilient workforce to manage pressure effectively ‘Resilience’ is the new buzzword for the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or other ‘stressors’. It’s how we ‘bounce back’ from difficult situations. And fortunately resilience isn’t a characteris... Business Management Carole Spiers Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=14679&ca=Business+Management People may, and frequently do, cause significant damage to themselves by basing their lives on inaccuracies and misconceptions. Some of the most commonly quoted in relation to stress include the following. ‘There’s no such thing as stress’ There is, but the word ‘stress’ itself is often applied inco... Business Management Carole Spiers Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=13947&ca=Business+Management According to the Institute of Psychiatry (April 2005), for the first time, stress, anxiety and depression have overtaken physical ailments as the most common cause of long-term absence from work. With sickness absence reportedly costing employers an average of £522 per employee per year (or an avera... Business Management Carole Spiers Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=13948&ca=Business+Management November 2004’s publication of the Health and Safety Executive’s new Management Standards for work-related stress has focused the minds of many organisations on this increasingly serious workplace hazard. But what are the differences between pressure and stress? What are the telltale signs and sympt... Business Management Carole Spiers Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=13949&ca=Business+Management The transitional period of returning to work after a prolonged period of sickness absence can be daunting for the employee AND their line manager - especially where the ill health revolved around a ‘stress at work’ issue. Coming to terms with changes that have taken place during the employee’s absen... Career Carole Spiers Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=13951&ca=Career According to the results of a study presented at the annual conference of the British Psychological Society in April 2005, more than one in eight people admit to being bullied at work, and ganging up against the boss - often a middle manager - is on the increase. But what are ‘bullying behaviours’,... Business Management Carole Spiers Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=13952&ca=Business+Management We live in a world of constant change, and even though the vast majority of these changes are for the better, change is still something that many people – and therefore many organisations – can find extremely difficult to deal with. Why is this, and what can be done to help people embrace change rat...