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The CIPD’s Working Live Scotland 2023 report, which has recently been published, provides a valuable insight into various aspects of Scottish people’s contemporary experiences of work, on topics as diverse as pay, job quality, employee voice, and the impact of the cost of living crisis. It is based on a…
In the podcast episode I was recently a guest on alongside Dr. Luciana Blaha for the Scottish Artificial Intelligence Alliance, one of the key challenges to the implementation of AI technologies at work that is discussed is the level of trust that workers and customers have in artificial intelligence and robotics…
Let me start by telling you a bit about myself. I am an Accountancy and Finance alumnus of the University of Aberdeen. I was a Restaurant business owner before attending University. When my son was born in 2014, I decided to change my career and become an Accountant, so I…
Motive Offshore Group is one of the market leaders for the supply of complex back deck equipment and services for the marine energy industry and strives to be the technology leader in our field. We had recently embarked on a joint engineering project with the University of Aberdeen and were…
ANM Group is one of the largest producer owned co-operative businesses in Scotland and the UK and plays a major role in Scotland's agricultural, commercial and hospitality sectors specialising in auction, appraisal and valuation services for livestock, vehicles, plant, machinery, equipment and specialist items. ANM also have a rural property division…
Volatile, Uncertain, Complexity and Ambiguity?
During my time as a local council officer I remember chasing up updates and submissions of Business Continuity Plans. These could slip off people’s ‘to do’ list in the whirlwind of operational tasks. It is only when something goes wrong that these came into their…
The Scottish Institute for Enterprise is funded by the Scottish Funding Council and Scottish Enterprise to help students in Scotland develop enterprise skills, discover their entrepreneurial talent and start up their own ventures.
SIE’s range of activities are designed to have something for students at all levels, from those with…
This week marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, an audacious plan by British military leader, Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery. The military operation could have brought the Second War to an end a year early.
Sadly, the planned failed and the war continued for another year before Europe was…
For many budding organisational leaders a constant question is: how do I manage those around me to achieve organisational success? Of course there is no shortage of advice out there. Airport lobby shops are crammed full of management self-help books that tell us that by following 3, 5 or 7…
We were delighted to welcome so many Alumni from across the University last month to our event in London and we wanted to share with you all a short film clip from Simon Lancaster, our guest speaker, about how you can improve your leadership communications.
Simon promotes three key principles…
