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The annual NHS Plus conference provided a platform for specialists to voice their opinions on the state of NHS occupational health services. Noel O'Reilly reports. NHS occupational health services need [...]

Noel O'Reilly reports on the NHS Plus conference, where a new quality strategy was announced. NHS Plus Conference: April 2010, Coventry ' The one thing [OH] has got to be [...]

by Noel O'Reilly National director for health and work Dame Carol Black called on occupational health (OH) to take a leading role in the government's plans to boost the health [...]

How healthy is your workforce? Personnel Today took the plunge and jumped onto the 'I speak your health' machine. Noel O'Reilly reports. With the deluge of public health campaigns and [...]

Who will be expected to deliver Dame Carol Black's vision for workplace health, and what will be the practical implications for those involved? Noel O'Reilly reports.e_SClBOH nurses Dame Carol Black's [...]

by Noel O'Reilly The announcement in February that the GP sicknote is to be replaced by a 'well note' - listing the tasks employees are fit to carry out - [...]

EXCLUSIVE by Noel O'Reilly and Nic Paton Speculation is growing that workplace health tsar professor Dame Carol Black (pictured right) will make some radical suggestions when her review of the [...]

TALENT MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE, BARCELONA, 9-10 JUNE 2005 By Noel O'Reilly in Barcelona Poor HR decisions were a key factor leading to Shell's admission in 2004 that it had overstated its [...]

Building Success in Europe Conference, Barcelona, 13-15 April 2005 By Noel O'Reilly In Barcelona HR leaders have a major role in helping companies meet the challenges confronting Europe in the [...]

help is at hand The Government's new CSR academy should put HR centre stage in corporate social responsibility. Noel O'Reilly reports Type the phrase 'corporate social responsibility' (CSR) into Google, [...]

In the knowledge economy, universities have a vital and growing role in supporting innovation and facilitating regional economic development through the addition of a 'third mission' of knowledge transfer activities to the core missions of teaching and academic research. Knowledge transfer capabilities appear to be influenced by the dynamic capabilities and culture of the host university. To date, knowledge transfer activities of universities have proven difficult to quantify with comparisons between institutions problematic. This paper addresses this gap in two ways. Firstly, the use of a ratio of published metrics gives greater insight into the relative degree of collaboration between universities and industry. Secondly, this research derives a measure of dynamic capabilities in Irish universities and correlates it with previously unpublished data on technology and knowledge transfer performance. The research finds a high correlation between universities with strong dynamic capabilities and their success in these dimensions of knowledge transfer.Keywords:entrepreneurial university; dynamic capabilities; knowledge transfer; innovation cultureDans l'économie de la connaissance, les universités ont un rôle essentiel et croissant l'innovation de soutien et en facilitant le développement économique régional par l'addition d'une 'troisième mission' des activités de transfert de la connaissance aux missions de noyau de l'enseignement et de la recherche scolaire. Les capacités de transfert de la connaissance semblent Átre influencées par les capacités et la culture dynamiques de l'universitéde centre serveur. Jusqu'à présent, les activités de transfert de la connaissance des universités ont prouvé difficile à mesurer avec des comparaisons entre les établissements problématiques. Ce document adresse cete space de deux manières. Premièrement, l'utilisation d'un rapport de la métrique éditée donne une plus grande analyse dans le degré relatif de collaboration entre les universités et l'industrie. Deuxièmement, cette recherche dériveune mesure de capacités dynamiques aux universités irlandaises et la corrèle avec desdonnées précédemment non publiées sur l'interprétation de transfert de technologie et deconnaissance. La recherche trouve une corrélation élevée entre les universités avec descapacités dynamiques fortes et leur succès dans ces dimensions de transfert de la connaissance.

By Noel O'Reilly The building industry faces a crisis in recruitment unless it throws off its Auf Wiedersehn Pet image and rethinks safety, career development and equality Construction minister Brian [...]

As this week's TUC conference begins, a survey of nearly 250 employers by legal firm DLA shows that many could be in for a bumpy ride over the next few [...]

The latest survey by Personnel Today and KLegal shows that e-mail and the internet are the biggest cause of disciplinary problems in the workplace. Remarkably, office technology causes more problems [...]

The problem with closing the pay gap is that someone, somewhere is going to have to pay. It certainly can prove very expensive for employers, as the case of Birmingham [...]

By Noel o'reilly Motor giant Ford has dropped the practice of 'managing out' the lowest performing 10 per cent of staff because of the negative reaction from employees. The company [...]

The last week has not been a good advertisement for globalisation, what with WorldCom and the shoddy G8 meeting on world poverty in Canada. Meanwhile, back in Europe, the EU [...]

Jonas Ridderstrale, author of the best-selling management book, Funky Business, likes to refer to the old joke about MBA standing for 'mediocre but arrogant'. And it's not sour grapes - [...]

By Noel O'Reilly A new study reveals the encouraging finding that the proportion of companies where HR is taking a lead on knowledge management has increased from 3 per cent [...]

In the past, Personnel Today has campaigned for the Government to act to improve the consultation process for introducing new legislation and the quality of employment regulations. When the Better [...]

The latest research by IRS Employment Review confirms that the war for talent is still very much at the top of the agenda for HR practitioners (News, page 1). Despite [...]

One of the talking points of the HR year is Personnel Today's annual line-up of the profession's movers and shakers - the top 40 HR power players. The list is [...]

It wasn't so very long ago that many employers thought being a good corporate citizen meant persuading a few middle managers to paint the local community youth centre. The employees [...]

In Personnel Today's last editorial leader on the draft EU agency directive, we argued that the proposals were a step in the wrong direction. The EU now seems be considering [...]

The Data Protection Act is fast becoming the biggest thorn in the side of HR professionals, and the Information Commission's ham-fisted approach to introducing guidance is largely to blame. The [...]

The problem with the EC's draft directive on temporary workers is that it tries to achieve fair treatment of temporary staff at the expense of employers and employment agencies. Legislation [...]

This issue focuses on the tools HR people are using to demonstrate the impact of their interventions on the bottom line. If you want to know where to find the [...]

By Noel O'Reilly Few in HR would like to swap places with Beverley Shears right now. As HR director of South West Trains, she has led the doomed pay negotiations [...]

Research by an Internet security firm, Peapod, confirms the worst suspicions of many employers about staff abuse of Internet systems. Data from an audit of e-mails at 40 large companies [...]

The DTI's backing for a new working group to look into ways to boost the number of women in IT is welcome. The knowledge economy is one of the buzz-phrases [...]

The award of [pound]1.5m in compensation to Julie Bower last week for unfair dismissal and sex discrimination against Schroder Securities has caused a sensation in the media and is a [...]

The outsourcing trend has taken another lurch forward with a $40m deal between Cable and Wireless and e-peopleserve. Outsourcing, of course, is all about money. The motivation for outsourcing is [...]

By Noel O'Reilly The Government has begun the consultation process which will lead to a raft of new equality legislation covering age, sexual orientation and religious beliefs (News, page 1). [...]

By Noel O'Reilly The publication of the Kingsmill review of women's pay and employment last week showed that the Government seems to be following through with its promised 'light touch' [...]

It obviously makes good sense for companies in those sectors hit hardest by the economic downturn to look beyond share options and bonuses as a way to motivate staff (News, [...]

Last week's proposals from the DTI to give parents a legal right to request flexible working if they have children under six will be greeted with relief by employers. Plans [...]

A joint report by the CBI and TUC published last week says productivity of the UK's companies is lagging behind other European countries. The UK Productivity Challenge shows that France [...]

How much has the world of work changed since 11 September? The terrorist attack certainly cast a long shadow over last week's annual CIPD conference as speakers talked in almost [...]

The article presents the third part in a series of reports on the evolution of occupational health (OH) concerning OH nurse competencies and education. Topics discussed include the launch of a National School of Occupational Health in 2014, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy's OH competency framework for physiotherapy, and the three fundamental drivers that will form OH requirements until 2035 according to the Council for Work and Health.

The article traces the evolution of the occupational health (OH) profession and its key drivers in the 21st century. It reviews the developments and milestones of OH from industrial nursing to the roles of nurses and doctors in the delivery of a new OH model. The article identifies key issues that the British OH profession needs to address by 2020 including the lack of sustainable funding for OH training, a diminishing research base, and limited affordable access to comprehensive OH services.

The article discusses the role of public health policy in the evolution of occupational health (OH) practices in the 21st century. It examines several drivers that will influence the delivery of OH services such as the role of human resources (HR) and OH nurses in the development of wellbeing strategies in the workplace. The article also looks at OH initiatives including the Business in the Community's "Workwell model," and the National Health Service's Fit for Work scheme in 2014.

The article presents the opinion of several participants of the roundtable debate "The Fit Note: One Year On" organised by the periodical "Occupational Health" and service provider AXA ICAS held in London, England on March 17, 2011. Bill Gunnyeon of Department for Work and Pensions states the collaboration between employer bodies and general practitioner (GP) organisations in the development of the fit note. Council for Work and Health member John Chrisholm stresses the need for hospital doctors to offer advice to patients on returning to work.

The article discusses the highlights of 2016 Active Working CIC Conference. Speakers include Active Working founding director Gavin Bradley who discussed public policy, building evidence and changing workplace behaviour while Dr. James Levine from Mayo Clinic focused on non-exercise activity thermongenesis (NEAT) and wellbeing. Other speakers include Dr. Jason Gill from the British Heart Foundation Glasgow, Dr. Stacey Clemes of Loughborough University and Stepehn Bevan of The Work Foundation.

This section offers British health news briefs. The annual conference of the Health at Work Network of the British National Health Service (NHS) was held in September 2013 in Nottingham, England. Research indicates a strong link between the wellbeing of NHS staff and the quality of patient care. The Council for Work and Health (CWH) has set up the OH Future Workforce Project, which includes proposals for educating allied workplace health professions in occupational health (OH) skills.