Health and Safety Advice for Contract Cleaners - Second Part
In Part 1 of this article we looked at how your employees could be brought to a level of good understanding of the hazards and how to overcome them. Part 2 looks at other aspects of your role as an employer in meeting the necessary requirements connected with your ‘duty of care'.Are you supervising your employees enough? This is not simply a matter of showing your face every so often, but ensuring that you meet with them regularly to discuss any issues that may be occurring concerning their work. Often, when Cleaning Companies staff out jobs, it is the cleaners themselves who know more about what is going on in the contracts than the managers themselves. Employees

Since Ritalin, Humanism, And Outcome Based Education Are Not Working - Business Can Help!
There are solutions to schools gone wild that do not drug our kids, mask the truth about where feelings come from, call anything I do good or teach character as a series of definitions and posters.More...I was encouraged to see a recent article (along with several in the last few years) "The Great ADHD Myth" by Jenny Hope in the London edition of Daily Mail.One true story: My friend J was told that both of her adolescent boys needed to be put on Ritlan if they were to continue in public school. J and her husband began researching, seeking wise counsel, and praying. They came to the realization that before drugging their boys they needed to try total paren

Most Influential Group of Consumers
Recent marketing studies reveal that most marketing strategies directed toward women fail to live up to potential due to lack of appropriate market segmentation.Businesses that are the most successful and consistently reach women with targeted marketing efforts take advantage of the different ways in which women collect information and make consumer decisions. As a business owner you can capture the female buying power through specifically targeted marketing strategies toward women versus the traditional marketing strategy.A recent Vanguard study found women trust:• Female family members • Financial Institutions • Newspapersy, 2004) and The High-Purpose Company (Collins, 2006). In this interview, she describes the “litmus test” she developed to identify high-purpose companies, and provides advice on what organizations can do to meet their corporate responsibility goals.

The term “corporate social responsibility” is used quite liberally these days. How do you define it? There are a lot of people in the business world that regard it as a form of marketing or philanthropy. When they speak about it, they think about it in terms of a company effort to do good, to give back to society or to appear as a Good Samaritan.

I disagree with that totally. In my view, and according to my research, corporate responsibility is really about being responsive and

rganizations can do to meet their corporate responsibility goals.

The term “corporate social responsibility” is used quite liberally these days. How do you define it? There are a lot of people in the business world that regard it as a form of marketing or philanthropy. When they speak about it, they think about it in terms of a company effort to do good, to give back to society or to appear as a Good Samaritan.

I disagree with that totally. In my view, and according to my research, corporate responsibility is really about being responsive and

There are a lot of people in the business world that regard it as a form of marketing or philanthropy. When they speak about it, they think about it in terms of a company effort to do good, to give back to society or to appear as a Good Samaritan.

I disagree with that totally. In my view, and according to my research, corporate responsibility is really about being responsive and

give back to society or to appear as a Good Samaritan.

I disagree with that totally. In my view, and according to my research, corporate responsibility is really about being responsive and taking responsibility for companies’ past, present and future behavior. I don’t view corporate responsibility as an outcome or as an end goal, but rather as an ongoing process. Companies don’t press “pause,” they don’t press “stop” – [corporate responsibility] is something that is forever in action just as a company’s behaviors are.

What exactly is a “high-purpose company”? I always say that high-purpose companies are some of the most valuable companies in the world. They produce more social, environmental and financial value – triple bottom line returns – than any other breed of business. That’s because they stand for something greater than the products they sell or the wealth they generate for shareholders. Interestingly, that something, wha