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Aggiornamento del 05/06/09

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<a href="http://www.managesmarter.com/msg/content_display/training/e3ia63351ea832b17bff55792cc22591fee">Employee Engagement in Hard Times: Focus on Intrinsic Rewards</a>

via <a href="http://www.managesmarter.com" class="f">ManageSmarter.com - Training Top Stories</a> by Ken Thomas on 6/4/09

Motivation is a key component of effective leadership. Have you ever considered making work engagement via intrinsic rewards a major focus of your leadership development program? If not, you should.

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<a href="http://www.smallbusiness.co.uk/channels/employing-staff/news/1045451/uk-unemployment-rises-to-22m.thtml">UK unemployment rises to 2.2m</a>

via <a href="http://www.smallbusiness.co.uk" class="f">Latest News | small business news and advice</a> on 5/13/09

The biggest emergency facing the UK is unemployment, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) claims, as the number of people out of work hits 2.2 million.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that the first three months of 2009 saw the largest quarterly jump in unemployment since 1981, with 244,000 people becoming jobless since December.

TUC general secretary Brendan Barber comments: 'These figures are even worse than expected. Unemployment will almost certainly pass the 2.5 million mark by summer.'

He also stresses the urgency of the situation and calls on the government to 'use all possible means' to rectify the problem, suggesting that economic recovery will only occur in the real world when unemployment begins to fall.

Also commenting on the figures, David Frost, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, advises the government to protect the UK's manufacturing skills base.

Frost calls for public funds to be used to provide training and to encourage businesses to recruit and retain more staff, as well as suggesting the introduction of a temporary short time working scheme and the planned increase in national insurance to be scrapped.

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<a href="http://www.etf.europa.eu/web.nsf/(RSS)/EB6E344C23E30070C12575CC004CB897?OpenDocument&LAN=EN">Education and economy ministries join forces in Skopje</a>

via <a href="http://www.etf.europa.eu" class="f">ETF News</a> by on 6/5/09

With increasing recognition of the contribution of education to national competitiveness, on 3 June education and economy ministers from the FYR of Macedonia agreed a common programme to promote lifelong entrepreneurial learning.

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<a href="http://www.etf.europa.eu/web.nsf/(RSS)/C3C23D31E2A85C7CC12575B400442CFC?OpenDocument&LAN=EN">ETF celebrates European SME week</a>

via <a href="http://www.etf.europa.eu" class="f">ETF News</a> by on 5/12/09

Promoting entrepreneurship across Europe is the primary aim of European SME Week which runs from 6-14 May. ETF and its partner countries do their bit in promoting entrepreneurship with specific emphasis on entrepreneurship education.

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<a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.document&PJ_LANG=EN&PJ_RCN=9642928">Structural change in Agriculture and rural livelihoods</a>

via <a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/" class="f">Projects</a> on 5/31/09

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2009-06-01

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<a href="http://www.smallbusiness.co.uk/channels/sales-and-marketing/news/1049717/smes-dangerously-reliant-on-one-customer.thtml">SMEs dangerously reliant on one customer</a>

via <a href="http://www.smallbusiness.co.uk" class="f">Latest News | small business news and advice</a> on 6/3/09

SMEs are putting themselves at risk by being too reliant on one main customer for the majority of their sales.

According to a survey by Close Invoice Finance, one in ten small businesses say that more than half of their turnover comes from a single client.

David Thomson, chief executive of Close Invoice Finance, says: ‘By relying heavily on one single customer, companies put themselves at serious risk of business failure should this customer fall into financial difficulty.’

Alex MacPherson, chief executive of Octopus Ventures, says: ‘You only need to look at the effect of Zavvi collapsing because of its relationship with Woolies to see the impact of having too close a relationship with one other company.

‘Small businesses have the advantage of being nimble and quick. They should try and build their customer base as much as possible to mitigate any risks.’

According to the latest figures from the Insolvency Service, 4,607 companies went into compulsory liquidation or creditors’ voluntary liquidation during the fourth quarter of 2008 in England and Wales. This is a rise of 11.9 per cent on the previous quarter and an increase of 51.6 per cent on the same period a year ago.

Of the 500 small businesses surveyed, three in five said they had no insurance to protect against customer default.

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<a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/859&format=HTML&aged=0&language=IT&guiLanguage=en">Un "impegno comune per l'occupazione": la Commissione avvia una nuova strategia per fronteggiare l'impatto occupazionale della crisi</a>

via <a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/syndication/QuickRSSAction.do?id=61&lang=IT" class="f">COMMISSION DOCUMENT</a> on 6/2/09

IP/09/859 Bruxelles, 3 giugno 2009 Un "impegno comune per l'occupazione": la Commissione avvia una nuova strategia per fronteggiare l'impatto occupazionale della crisi L'UE metterà a disposizione 19 miliardi di euro dei finanziamenti pianificati del Fondo ...

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<a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=CES/09/78&format=HTML&aged=0&language=IT&guiLanguage=en">Il comitato consultivo dello Spazio economico europeo (CC-SEE) raccomanda di

istituire un forum consultivo della società civile del Baltico e promuove il

"lavoro verde"</a>

via <a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/syndication/QuickRSSAction.do?id=55&lang=IT" class="f">ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE DOCUMENTS</a> on 5/28/09

CES/09/78 28 maggio 2009 Il comitato consultivo dello Spazio economico europeo (CC-SEE) raccomanda di istituire un forum consultivo della società civile del Baltico e promuove il "lavoro verde" Il comitato consultivo dello Spazio economico europeo (CC-SEE), ...

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<a href="http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4813f35/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Cspecial0Ccan0Escience0Ereinvent0Eeconomy/story01.htm">Can science reinvent the economy?</a>

via <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/news.ns" class="f">New Scientist - Online News</a> on 6/4/09

The financial crisis highlighted serious shortcomings with conventional approaches to managing the economy - could physicists, engineers and biologists do a better job of taming the markets?<img width="1" height="1" src="http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/4813f35/mf.gif" border="0">

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<a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.document&PJ_LANG=EN&PJ_RCN=8327154">European Networking for Financing Food Innovation</a>

via <a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/" class="f">Projects</a> on 6/2/09

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2009-06-03

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