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  Creating a brand environment

While all brands are not created equal, what’s on the inside can truly inspire and excite. Di Macdonald, formerly director of culture, learning and development at 3, provides some simple advice for companies looking to create a stimulating working environment.
  Dress for success?
In the modern workplace, do dress codes still matter? Jessica Weaver reports.
  A force for engagement

When it comes to employee engagement, treating people like grown-ups is the key, says straight-talking HR guru Angela O’Connor.
  CIPD appoints Jackie Orme as new chief executive
  UK companies need to do more to encourage sustainability
The latest Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development/KPMG quarterly Labour Market Outlook survey indicates that companies need to do more to help fight climate change.
  All work and play?
With people working excessively long hours and having less face-to-face and emotional contact with their work colleagues, companies need to inject some real fun into the workplace. Organisational psychologist Cary L Cooper reveals why playtime is so important.
  Taking the lead on work-life balance
With issues such as flexible working, affordable childcare and paid paternity leave starting to dominate today’s HR agenda, work-life balance is a subject organisations ignore at their peril. Anna Tobin reports
  Restructure, communicate and engage
When Cable & Wireless decided to create two stand-alone business units, an employee engagement initiative was used as a powerful enabler. Paul Wood, the company’s head of communications, shares the highs and lows of the project
  Taking the ‘social’ out of social media

The power of social software is undeniable in the free, anarchic world of the global internet. But what happens when you bring these tools into the constrained, policydriven,  risk-averse world of the corporate intranet? Well, that’s just what one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions, BT, has chosen to do.  Richard Dennison, BT’s internal programme manager, tells the story.
 
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