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Develop and engage all your people for business success
Purpose
– This article aims to draw on some key ideas set out in Janice Caplan's book, Strategic Talent Development. In essence, Strategic Talent Development is about achieving business success in today's environment, which is so different from the one on which most management practice is based.
Design/methodology/approach
– Caplan argues that conventional thinking has pushed too much onto line managers and given them an impossible task. She also debunks popular notions, such as we should invest differentially in high potential, or pivotal staff, or that leaders must win hearts and minds.
Findings
– She shows how new ways of working are making current line management structures and processes unviable, and she proposes two key solutions. The first is to implement “shared management” structures that spread people management responsibilities so that individuals get the attention they need, when they need it. The second is to establish longer-term approaches to career development that ensure everyone keeps pace with change. This also takes care of high potentials and future leaders.
Originality/value
– The author shows how the proposed solutions are critical to raising levels of employee engagement and therefore business profitability.
Journal Article
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF Janice Caplan, CIPD vice-president, learning, training and development
A quick look at the CIPDs Helping People Learn website helps prepare me to chair the afternoon meeting at the CIPD. This website includes an online community that has been invited to comment on the proposition, 'it is important to demonstrate the value to be derived from peopledevelopment activities, but traditional hierarchical training evaluation may not be the most appropriate method'.
Trade Publication Article
PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT IN ITALY: It's the climate that counts
Continuing our series on personnel management in other EC countries we examine Italy, where personnel professionals play a key role at the highest corporate levels
Magazine Article
News from the schools
Would you believe that it is easier for you to walk 25 miles than for some others to walk 25 steps?
Newspaper Article
Effects of osmoprotectants upon NaCl stress in rice
Plants accumulate a number of osmoprotective substances in response to NaCl stress, one of them being proline (Pro). While characterizing some of the changes in solute accumulation in NaCl-stressed rice (Oryza sativa L.), we identified several other potential osmoprotectants. One such substance, trehalose, begins to accumulate in small amounts in roots after 3 d. We performed a series of experiments to compare the effects of Pro and trehalose on ion accumulation to determine whether the two chemicals protect the same physiological processes. We found that Pro either has no effect or, in some cases, exasperates the effect of NaCl on growth inhibition, chlorophyll loss, and induction of a highly sensitive marker for plant stress, the osmotically regulated salT gene. By contrast, low to moderate concentrations of trehalose reduce Na+ accumulation, salT expression, and growth inhibition. Somewhat higher concentrations (10 mM) prevent NaCl-induced loss of chlorophyll in blades, preserve root integrity, and enhance growth. The results of this study indicate that during osmotic stress trehalose or carbohydrates might be more important for rice than Pro
Journal Article
The Kennywood queue...
The attitude still exists at Kennywood to \"get their money and let them wait in line.\" I waited for 50 minutes for the Phantom's Revenge while they would only operate one train.
Newspaper Article
expression of the salt-responsive gene salT from rice is regulated by hormonal and developmental cues
The expression pattern of the salT gene was analyzed in different cell types and organs of rice (Oryza sativa L.) in response to saline and hormonal treatments to obtain detailed information on the physiological cues controlling gene expression. Gel blot analysis of RNA and in-situ hybridization performed on seedlings grown for 10 ds in the presence of 1% NaCl revealed that salT was expressed mainly in the younger tissues of the plant. In contrast, 6-week-old plants exhibited maximal salT mRNA accumulation in sheaths of older leaves. In addition, salT was normally expressed in rapidly dividing suspension-cultured cells, but not in quiescent ones. Altogether, these results may indicate that salT expression in each region of the plant is dependent on the metabolic activity of the cells as well as on whether or not they are stressed. The effects of two growth regulators, abscisic acid (ABA) and gibberellic acid, were investigated in combination with the effects of NaCl. Gibberellic acid had a synergistic effect on the induction of the salT gene when combined with 0.5% NaCl, but did not induce salT on its own. At 10 micromolar, ABA induced salT both in the absence of NaCl and in its presence. Whereas 1 micromolar ABA acted additively with NaCl to induce gene expression, 5 micromolar ABA with NaCl was only as effective as NaCl alone. This may indicate that the two stimuli act independently and possibly through antagonistic signal transduction pathways.
Journal Article