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36% of interim executives are now women - Let's make some noise!;
After reading Interim Partners' (IP) last newsletter and finding no articles written by women interims or women directors I wrote irritably: "Don't you HAVE any women in senior positions?" To my amazement - and slight discomfiture - IPs' Managing Director, Doug Baird rang me and threw down a gauntlet. He asked me politely if I'd care to put pen to paper to make the case for women raising their profile in interim management?
Click here to read the rest of the article, which appeared in the IP Newsletter in May 2010.
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Part of the problem: management responsibility for absence
Much advice on absence management mentions 'creating a positive working atmosphere' - but then skips what this means to focus on the process of absence management - measurement, return to work interviews, restricting sick pay etc. What managers may not have grasped is that attitudes towards absence are created, to a large extent, by managers themselves, argues Karen Drury. Click here to read the article which appeared in personneltoday.com on February 15 2010.
