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...Hundreds of executives take the IoD courses each year. Among the benefits is meeting other people on the same quest....
...James Sproule, Chief Economist at the Institute of Directors says a survey of members at the IoD found that 80 per cent of employers said they were unlikely to give pay rises in the next three months, with...
...Simon Walker, IoD Britain’s greatest economic strength is that it is a free and open trading economy where businesses compete purely on the basis of merit....
...We have moved from an “era of lifetime employment”, the authors say, to a “free-agency-style” period....
...The IoD is right that we should remember the lessons of British Leyland, and let dying companies be taken out. AstraZeneca is not one of these cases....
..., excessive government intervention in the market would cost far more jobs than might be saved by efforts to politicise this particular deal,” said Roger Barker, director of corporate governance at the IoD...
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...Miles Templeman, IoD director-general, said such a move would be “in the interests of shareholders and would also increase the legitimacy of takeover activity in the eyes of employees and other parties with...
...We are looking at a period of global slowdown,” he told investors. “This is not like 1987 or 1998 or 2001. The contraction going on is bigger than that....
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