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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...human resources, financial resources and time. And there are the challenges resulting from the complex and dynamic environments that interventions take place within and interact with. These bring significant elements of the unknown, high levels of ambiguity, and multiple perspectives...Week 2: Designing an intervention: 3 Challenges in designing development interventions...
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
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Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...humanities; science, technology and engineering; health & social care. The course also evaluates three methods for measuring the societal impacts of sustainable innovations. Learners are encouraged to reflect on their own experiences of cases where sustainable innovations drive success or failures in enterprises and how the positive impacts on society can be evaluated and...
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Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...resource aimed at those with an interest in human resources and people development. They offer a wide range of reports, guides, factsheets and podcasts to support your diversity development. For more practical support, The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) works with employers and employees to improve workplace relationships, providing advice, policy...
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Risk management

...human resources team, and the human resources team won't speak to the engineering team, and so on and so forth. And that information is kept within the confines of one part of the business or one function within the business. I think enterprise risk management does well break some of those barriers, break some of those boundaries, shares that information, and makes sure...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...human resources and marketing; senior managers – reporting to the managing director, who may then report to the Board. The number of levels clearly depends upon the size and to some extent on the type of the organisation. Typically, the 'span of control' (the number of people each manager or supervisor is directly responsible for) averages about five people, but this...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
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Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...human resources) department may have some guidance documents or a short training session on how to make full use of the review system. In other companies the process may be less formal, but preparation is just as important. Take a look at some tips at the section preparing for reviews. These conversations can happen even if you are not in paid employment, for instance if...
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Working in teams

...Human Resource Development International, 13(1), pp. 111–120. Available at:
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...Human resource/recruitment managers: well-trained and experienced, often astute and very sensitive. Acting as internal screener; judgement valued by others. Likely to concentrate on personality and organisational ‘fit’. May have a fund of knowledge about company cultures. Head of a group or department: a technical expert with wider managerial experience. Will talk...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs