There’s been a lot of pressure in recent years for HR professionals and HR departments to abandon (often through outsourcing) their traditional administrative roles in favor of a strategic partnership involving a more holistic approach to human resource management and strategic alignment. From a theoretical perspective this might make some sense, especially when you …
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India’s growth seen to retard to two-year low in Q3 (via AFP) India is expected to post Wednesday its slowest quarterly growth in over two years for the final months of 2011, hit by aggressive interest rate hikes and a sluggish global economy, analysts said. Asia’s third-largest economy likely grew 6.3 percent year-on-year during the …
US creates new trade unit, targets China (via AFP) The US took direct aim at China Tuesday with the establishment of a new agency to crack down on what Washington judges unfair practices by its major trade partners. President Barack Obama ordered the creation of the Interagency Trade Enforcement Center charged with “robust monitoring and …
Clinton pledges ‘Jobs Diplomacy’ for economy (via AFP) Hillary Clinton promised Tuesday to put the force of her State Department behind US businesses, calling for “jobs diplomacy” to help boost exports and jumpstart a still wobbly economy. With jobs the key issue for November elections, Clinton pledged that she would meet business leaders on every …
The Risks of an Eroding Manufacturing Sector By Holly A. Bell When I wrote the article Manufacturing: America’s Next Industrial Evolution? the primary purpose was to consider how to compete in a global manufacturing environment. I briefly mentioned national security as one reason we should actively seek to bring manufacturing back to the US and …
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To be a critical consumer of information I often encourage people to believe nothing people say or write, and only about half of what you see them do. Here’s one reason why. By Holly A. Bell One night last week my cat got himself stuck under the front porch. He crawls under the porch regularly, …
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By Holly A. Bell In our current economic environment everyone loves to hate banks. They represent foreclosures, “too big to fail”, government bailouts, and this week: manipulators of a key interest rate that affects loans around the world. So did big banks take too many risks and were individuals too eager to borrow money? Probably. …
Is China Vulnerable? [repostus hash=d1a231dfac5956ecc958661b8854a8c4 title=Europe%20crisis%20could%20halve%20China’s%20growth%3A%20IMF host=AFP short=15ztw] Will the U.S. Manufacturing sector be better able to compete with China?
