In today’s Trinidad Daily Express (14th October 2008), there is an article that speaks to the Inter-American Development Bank’s agreement to loan local companies US$6 billion. The IDB noted that the origin of economic crisis is outside of the Latin American and Caribbean region but can have potentially serious repercussions. They feel the need to...
Category: Denise Ali
Health and Human Resources
Current issues in the newspaper refer to poor public health services, serious traffic congestion, spiralling crime rate and double digit inflation. What can we do as Human Resource Professionals to assist our employees in dealing with the current socio-economic conditions? The newspapers have numerous articles on the public health care services in Trinidad, where citizens...
Line Managers and Documentation
Human Resource Professionals have a responsibility to advise our clients (Line Managers) on the practices of good industrial relations. This role has many challenges. There are times one may come across a Line Manager that really grasps the importance of managing people and does not shy away from difficult or character building conversations with employees....