The Dock labour and port-related employmentreport (Notteboom, 2010), released earlier this year with support from the Institute of Transport and Maritime Management Antwerp, presents a thorough analysis of the key factors to port competitiveness and reform, underlining also the importance of dock labour system implementation and the impact of port-related employment.
All tied up – Working capital management report 2010, released by Ernst&Young in earlier this year, presents an annual analysis of the working capital performance based on the responses received at the Annual Working Capital Management Survey for 2009. Its key findings rely on the review of the working capital performance of the largest 2,000 companies (by sales) headquartered in the US and Europe, the analysis being based on companies’ latest scale 2009 reports.
A recent report prepared by Stacombe Research and Planning on behalf of Optus Small and Medium Businesses provides a new and interesting perspective on how small to medium businesses view and use social media.
The report HR Trends in B.C. published in June 2010 by British Columbia Human Resource Management Association (BC HRMA), one of the largest HR association in Western Canada, presents the key findings based on the survey results regarding the 2010 HR role and trends.
One of the key challenges faced by organization’s leaders in the current business environment is how to retain their talents in order to enable business success. As Broman (2010) acknowledges, “retaining talents isn’t simply a question of “headcount” – it can make the difference between the success or failure of a company and the winning and losing of market share, investors, new clients and contracts”.