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Attractor wrote a new blog post: Tax Avoidance and Evasion in Government?

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:00:01 +0000

Attractor wrote a new blog post: Tax Avoidance and Evasion in Government? The pressure of public scrutiny is increasing on senior, well-paid individuals in all areas of work after a Freedom of Information request. Concerns have arisen that senior public servants have been abusing their position by working in ways that are "tax efficient" and thereby inappropriate. At a time when high pay in the private sector has [...]

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Vince Lammas commented on the blog post Why Not Pay Bankers Bonuses?

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:02:49 +0000

Vince Lammas commented on the blog post Why Not Pay Bankers Bonuses? I notice the government has announced today that it will not get involved in future bonus decisions while the Labour party continues to suggest there should be pressure on the banks to cut payments. If politicians want to change the pay culture in the UK, why not address this through the tax system?

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Attractor wrote a new blog post: Why Not Pay Bankers Bonuses?

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:00:27 +0000

Attractor wrote a new blog post: Why Not Pay Bankers Bonuses? At the end of January 2012, a political storm over high pay in banking, especially in the bailed out and "publicly owned" banks hit the headlines once again. With the Chairman of RBS having already declined his bonus , valued at £1.4m, Stephen Hester the Chief Executive, then came under pressure to waive his bonus, valued at just short [...]

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Vince Lammas posted an update: Looks like I will be going to the NHS employers conference after all!

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:45:32 +0000

Vince Lammas posted an update: Looks like I will be going to the NHS employers conference after all!

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Vince Lammas created the group Workforce Management Systems

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:30:41 +0000

Vince Lammas created the group Workforce Management Systems

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Attractor wrote a new blog post: Are Company Boss Earnings Incomprehensible?

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:00:50 +0000

Attractor wrote a new blog post: Are Company Boss Earnings Incomprehensible? The high level of earnings by senior people in private sector companies has hit the headlines once more with a series of outcries in response to news revealed in the Income Data Services report that FTSE 100 Directors experienced an increase of 49% in earnings over the last year. While the increase in basic pay averaged [...]

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Attractor wrote a new blog post: Pay Strategy in the NHS

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:00:57 +0000

Attractor wrote a new blog post: Pay Strategy in the NHS With the government implementing a two year pay-freeze to support its "austerity programme" and planning changes to public sector pensions, concerns arise that health-care organisations might be effected by widespread industrial action for the first time since the 1980s. Unions reluctantly accepted the necessity of the two year pay freeze though are now campaigning for a significant [...]

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Attractor wrote a new blog post: NHS Corporate Services - Knowledge is Power

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:23:59 +0000

Attractor wrote a new blog post: NHS Corporate Services - Knowledge is Power Had some really interesting discussions with senior HR practitioners this week - all touching on the shape, design and delivery of corporate services in the NHS. Talking about the challenges facing NHS corporate functions, in particular we talked about HR Services and how senior teams should be considering areas for review and redesign using stronger [...]

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Attractor wrote a new blog post: Reflections on Payroll Outsourcing

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:00:30 +0000

Attractor wrote a new blog post: Reflections on Payroll Outsourcing Over a period of years supporting public sector organisations' support improvement action in corporate teams, especially with HR, Finance and Payroll, one of the most common topics of discussion with Directors and senior managers has been the proper place for payroll functions. Some years ago, during a conversation with one (American) Chief Executive working in [...]

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Attractor wrote a new blog post: Managers Benefit from ESR Self Service

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:30:45 +0000

Attractor wrote a new blog post: Managers Benefit from ESR Self Service Attractor has been working with an NHS client to support its work deploying Supervisor Self-Service - part of the Electronic Staff Record (ESR), the national HR and Payroll solution used by almost all NHS organisations in England and Wales. Following effective change management and process review action, the Trust has now completed the pilot phase, [...]

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Attractor wrote a new blog post: NHS Shared Services Pays Dividends

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:00:22 +0000

Attractor wrote a new blog post: NHS Shared Services Pays Dividends Earlier this year (July 2011) NHS Shared Business Service (SBS), a joint venture between the Department of Health and Steria UK, announced its clients would get a share of a £1.2m ‘bonus’. SBS reports savings of 20-40% of operational costs for services it has taken over in back-office support in areas such as finance and accounting, payroll and family health [...]

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Attractor wrote a new blog post: Overcoming My Resistance to Change

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:00:04 +0000

Attractor wrote a new blog post: Overcoming My Resistance to Change Following 3 years of toying with the idea and after more than 20 years of using Microsoft Windows, I recently switched to a new Apple Mac with it's unique operating system. "I am a Mac" now though I'm using the Mac version of Microsoft Office to aid my transition. This helps but it's still very [...]

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Attractor wrote a new blog post: Is Payroll a Finance or an HR Function?

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:00:46 +0000

Attractor wrote a new blog post: Is Payroll a Finance or an HR Function? Drawn into a conversation on LinkedIN last week about the "proper place" for the payroll team. Many people were sure that dealing with the pay, tax and accounting means there is no better place than in Finance - one even suggesting only Finance could be trusted to make accurate calculations. Others were certain that the [...]

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Attractor wrote a new blog post: Does blocking social networks make sense?

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:00:54 +0000

Attractor wrote a new blog post: Does blocking social networks make sense? Apparently, the practice of blocking sites like Facebook and Twitter is on the increase with nearly a third of UK companies doing so. It may be sensible to block social networking sites to prevent IT security breaches, especially as these sites don't seem to make security a priority. It seems though, over time, organisations eventually tend to [...]

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Attractor wrote a new blog post: Delivering Change is About People and Practice

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:00:20 +0000

Attractor wrote a new blog post: Delivering Change is About People and Practice In our personal lives, we tend to stick with tried and trusted solutions until we are personally convinced the grief involved in learning something new is worthwhile and the benefits we will gain justify all the effort we assume is required to make the switch. It's pretty common for people to overestimate the difficulty in [...]

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Attractor wrote a new blog post: Empowering the Front Line

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:00:54 +0000

Attractor wrote a new blog post: Empowering the Front Line Working with public sector organisations, you will often hear (from corporate functions) that front-line managers cant operate self-sufficiently and need a lot of hands-on support from the corporate teams in finance, HR, procurement etc. Does this reflect a clear and robust understanding of managers' capacity and an organisational need for particular ways of working and higher [...]

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Michael Hopkins became a registered member

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:14:04 +0000

Michael Hopkins became a registered member

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Attractor wrote a new blog post: How Big Should HR Be?

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:00:55 +0000

Attractor wrote a new blog post: How Big Should HR Be? If your CEO asks the question posed in the title, it probably isn't acceptable to respond with the plain truth answer "It depends on how you want HR to contribute to the business!" While this wouldn't be an answer many would welcome, it is important to consider what role and purpose the HR department plays in [...]

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Attractor wrote a new blog post: Shared Corporate Services - A Blueprint for Government?

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:00:54 +0000

Attractor wrote a new blog post: Shared Corporate Services - A Blueprint for Government? While inheriting and accepting many features of the outgoing government’s strategy on productivity and efficiency, the Coalition Government has, at times, seemed less than enthusiastic about the delivery of corporate functions through shared service centres. In the context of many reports of failing shared services projects in the public sector, it would have been astonishing if [...]

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Lola Guillen started the forum topic Census Data in the group London ESR SIG - HR and Recruitment

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:00:16 +0000

Lola Guillen started the forum topic Census Data in the group London ESR SIG - HR and Recruitment: I’m working on the census data and I have a few queries that you may be able to help me with. I need a little clarification on the following descriptions: - An employee ‘Workplace Organisation’ is different to their ‘Employment Organisation’. I’m not sure if this refers to someone physically located in other organizations – [...]

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