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Thailand's challenge: Rich in ambitions, poor in people skills?
Christopher Bruton, Published on 22/05/2017
» Announcement of visionary and ambitious plans has become almost routine. The year 2017 will apparently not be an election year (nothing new about that) but has...
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Building bridges or barriers: bricks or brains?
Christopher Bruton, Published on 05/06/2017
» With so much attention now being devoted to "Thailand 4.0", the talk is all about innovation, competitiveness, sustainable development, value creation...
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Forced or free: Thailand's rating in World labour freedom
Christopher Bruton, Published on 26/12/2016
» Recent legislation affecting a number of Thailand's major export markets has obliged authorities to pay greater attention to issues that ought to have been addressed...
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Forced or free?: Thailand’s rating in world labour freedom
Christopher Bruton, Published on 19/12/2016
» Recent legislation affecting a number of Thailand’s major export markets has obliged authorities to pay greater attention to issues that ought to have been...
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Career transition: keeping skills within the workforce
Christopher Bruton, Published on 14/11/2016
» Even highly successful companies often downsize or change the structure of their workforces. This can happen because of new technologies, change of nature of...
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A worker benefit programme that really cares
Christopher Bruton, Published on 21/11/2016
» Many worker support programmes that are supposed to convey great benefits for employees often in fact do quite the opposite. No wonder, therefore, that schemes...
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Remote location workers: issues, opportunities and risks
Christopher Bruton, Published on 28/11/2016
» In recent surveys of manpower requirements, a third of business leaders have indicated that they envisage that more than half of their full-time staff may be...
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Women's leadership: mentoring Asia's rising stars
Christopher Bruton, Published on 06/12/2016
» Women represent at least half of national populations around the world, yet they are poorly represented in leadership and management positions in most countries....
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Workplace Cooperatives: a sound way to save
Christopher Bruton, Published on 13/12/2016
» Recently, we featured the pioneering work of iCare Benefits, a zero interest cost employee benefits program. This scheme now serves over 3.1 million workers in...
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Mobilising senior citizen manpower
Christopher Bruton, Published on 25/10/2016
» We have previously discussed Thailand's ageing population and the need to extend the working life of the active population. Older workers can be successful, effective...