Dr. Mehmet Ozan Uzkut, the President of MOBDER, the Association to Fight against Mobbing, declared that big companies are using mobbing as a tool not to pay compensation to their employees. Uzkut added that there have been 3,000 mobbing complaints and 600 were concluded as mobbing cases. PARTICULARLY HIGH MOBBING …
Read More »Advice from the Seven Sages to Business World
Let us introduce you to the Seven Sages of the Golden Age. Each week one Sage will give us lessons on business world and life at large. This week’s sage is Thales of Miletus from the 6th century BCE. 6th century BCE was the first enlightenment period for the mankind, …
Read More »Turkey plans to ease work permits for foreigners
by Erdinç ÇELİKKAN ANKARATurkey has kicked-off studies to introduce easier work permit application and granting procedures for qualified foreign workers and investors to enhance the country’s investment allure The Turkish Economy Minister has prepared an action plan to attract more qualified foreign employees and investors.The Turkish government is considering easing …
Read More »İstanbul 28th in newly published global city index
By Klaus Jurgen Measuring the quality of life in any city or town is a complicated scientific task. While necessary, over-focusing on questions such as “Are you happy?” will not automatically lead to making correct assumptions about a town’s range of amenities or infrastructure development! While some argue that the …
Read More »Three Musts to Retaining Superstar Talent
By Jeff Weiner, CEO, Linkedin In a previous post, I wrote about five tools to look for when recruiting superstar talent. In this post, I’d like to share some key lessons learned over the years when it comes to retaining your top people. As a general rule, it’s important to …
Read More »Datassist Announcement Human Resources and Payroll Training @ Bilgi
In collaboration with Bilgi Eğitim, Datassist will conduct its 27th training programme in human resources and payroll at santralİstanbul on May 24th-June 14th. The duration of the programme will be 32 hours and take place at santralistanbul. The programme is suitable for professionals who currently work in human resources and …
Read More »Employment in Turkey resisting against low foreign inflow and growth
While the current account deficit of the last three months has reached $16.5 billion, only one-fifth of it was financed by new capital flow. Employment is surviving because of the construction and services sectors, but unemployment is around 9 percent. The difficulties experienced in foreign financing have immediately shown themselves …
Read More »Converting a Job into a Career
by Lou Adler, CEO of The Adler Group If you’re a job-seeker looking for a career move, ask the hiring manager what work needs to be done, what problems need to be solved and how success in the job will impact the company’s strategy or mission. If you don’t …
Read More »Wage earning on the rise as entrepreneurship declining
by MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ The share of wage earners in total employment has exceeded 64 percent whereas the number of “self-employed” has remained the same over the past 10 years In Turkey, the population over the age of 15 has increased by 8 million in the past 10 years and 70 …
Read More »Can we work flexible hours? Really?
By Ela Erozan Gursel Flexible work has become the norm in England due to the economic recession. The work conditions of the flexible work are determined by zero-hour contracts widely preferred by employers. These contracts favor the employers over employees by paying only the hours worked. There is neither guarantee …
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