PEOPLE FOCUS - CIPD

PEOPLE FOCUS
A positive response to the
economic crisis
We may be well into recession but
professional people managers have an
opportunity to assist with rebuilding our
economy and its skills base. For months
many CIPD members have been involved
in cost containment and guiding and
informing employees and senior
management on effective approaches to
address the downturn we share with
many western economies.
But we are also in a position to assist by tapping into the Institute
members' experience in training, skills acquisition and career
development. There is scope for the CIPD to use its professional status to
assist thousands of experienced executives who have lost their jobs over
the past year as well as many of the new graduates who are leaving our
universities and third-level institutes.
At CIPD Ireland we are currently evaluating the feasibility of developing
a national work experience programme and a special 'jobs-club'
initiative for those who have been hit hardest by the economic crisis.
This builds on proposals we made to the Oireachtas joint committee on
Enterprise, Trade and Employment last November.
With the assistance of policy-makers there is scope for many organisations
to invite talented unemployed people to work with them for six-months
while receiving the job-seekers' allowance and other social supports.
It should be possible, in association with the 35 county and city
enterprise boards, to develop local job-seeker networks which CIPD
members could assist. As an independent professional body, CIPD Ireland
would be prepared to monitor standards for short-term engagement of
recent graduates or more experienced professionals to experience sixmonths
of structured employment in Irish organisations.
We are asking senior CIPD members to consider how they might assist us
in developing six-month employment and 'jobs club' initiatives for those
who have been hit hardest by the economic crisis.
Michael McDonnell
Director
Spring 2009 Contents
Building and Maintaining A Great Place to
Work in Difficult Economic Times pg 4
Work Life Balance is Beneficial
in a Recession! pg 5
Imaginative and longterm approach
needed as unemployment rises pg 6
Trying to do more with less pg 8
Employment Compliance Bill pg 12
Shaping the future pg 14
In challenging economic conditions - how
can you keep your employees motivated? pg 16
New HR survey report launched pg 17
Natural justice: a refresher pg 18
How the CIPD website can help
you find information pg 20
Directors risk disqualifications pg 22
A New HR Agenda pg 24
Performance Management pg 26
Getting the Measure of People
In A Downturn pg 28
Hearts, Minds & the Psychological Contract pg 29
You won’t forget 2009 too soon pg 30
Communicating Bad News to Employees pg 31
The Role of HR in Delivering Rapid and
Sustained Cost Management pg 32
Education a Key Element of
Career Transition pg 33
Work-Based Learning pg 34
A time to reflect? pg 35
Garvey’s SuperValu celebrate pg 36
Helping managers to deal with grief
at work pg 37
Guidelines for selecting external coaches pg 38
Colleges: Graduation pg 42
Upgrades pg 47
CIPD Regions
Midlands pg 48
Eastern pg 50
Mid West pg 52
Western pg 53
South East pg 56
Southern pg 58
PEOPLE FOCUS is issued by the Chartered Institute of
Personnel and Development in Ireland.
Mention of the CIPD in the text refers to the Institute in
Ireland unless otherwise stated.
Material printed in People Focus is not necessarily endorsed
by CIPD Ireland.
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