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Training apprentices: do small firms do it better?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/10/08/training-apprentices-do-small-firms-do-it-better/
Posted by Dan Bishop in School of Business Blog on October 8, 2014 Dan Bishop, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, challenges the ‘large firm’ paradigm on which apprenticeship-oriented politics has conventionally been based Apprenticeships and small businesses have...
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Tour du dopage: How do doping cyclists legitimate their cheating?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/07/01/tour-du-dopage-how-do-doping-cyclists-legitimate-their-cheating/
Posted by csmith in School of Business Blog on July 1, 2015 With the Tour de France about to get under way, Charlotte Smith , Lecturer in Management at the School, considers the tension between sporting success and good sportsmanship Whether your interests are in sport or in...
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Contemporary Labour Reform: Where “Pay Rise” Equals diminished household income and “Progressive’s”
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/08/04/contemporary-labour-reform-where-pay-rise-equals-diminished-household-income-and-progressives-anything-but/
Posted by in School of Business Blog on August 4, 2015 Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations, Jo Grady, looks behind The Welfare Reform and Work Bill’s upbeat rhetoric to reveal the downplayed reality “Britain deserves a pay rise and Britain is...
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Conference World and the Avoidance of Thought
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/08/27/conference-world-and-the-avoidance-of-thought/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on August 27, 2015 Having just returned from another major international conference, Professor Martin Parker is coming to suspect that they’re rarely worth the fuss At the beginning of August, what must surely be the largest...
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Austerity and Working Class Resistance: Survival, Disruption and Creation in Hard Times
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/10/15/austerity-and-working-class-resistance-survival-disruption-and-creation-in-hard-times/
Posted by hconnolly in School of Business Blog on October 15, 2018 In this blog Dr Adam Fishwick (De Montfort University) and Dr Heather Connolly (University of Leicester) discuss their new edited book, which assesses the impact and continuing development of...
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Brexit planning now urgent as leave date looms
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2019/02/20/brexit-planning-now-urgent-at-leave-date-looms/
Posted by hconnolly in School of Business Blog on February 20, 2019 By Rachael Elliott, Head of Thought Leadership, Business Continuity Institute & Paul Baines, Professor of Political Marketing, University of Leicester When the referendum result was...
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Delivering Sexual Harassment
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/01/18/delivering-sexual-harassment/
Posted by Jo B in School of Business Blog on January 18, 2018 In our first blog of the new year, Professor Jo Brewis explores the ways in which the gig economy is providing an insidious new means for women to be exposed to sexual harassment.
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Social Security and the Gig Economy – Lessons from the French Intermittents du Spectable scheme.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2023/12/07/social-security-and-the-gig-economy-lessons-from-the-french-intermittents-du-spectable-scheme/
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on December 7, 2023 A radical redesign of the UK benefits system for gig economy workers could draw inspiration from a French scheme that covers art industry workers writes Guillaume Wilemme and Piotr Denderski of the...
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Fair Game? A Reviewers Tale
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/02/11/fair-game-a-reviewers-tale/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on February 11, 2017 Emeritus Professor Peter Armstrong (p.armstrong@le.ac.uk) discusses an episode in the journal reviewing process that led him to believe that power and politics play their part too.