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Ireland is now about to become a founder member of EMU. I believe that EMU will be good for business, good for investment, good for jobs, good for Ireland.
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Europe's Employment Strategy Padraig Flynn,EU Commissioner for Employment and Social AffairsThe most important task in achieving the modernisation of the European economy and labour market, is to manage and plan the development of our human resources.
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The very success of the Single Market has highlighted the growing problems arising from having economic policies based on the old concept of fragmented national markets, rather than on the reality of the Single European Market.
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As economic growth prospects improve – as they now are doing, with the probability of 2.5% growth this year and the possibility of 3% next year – we must not give up on the modernisation and reform of our labour market and social protection systems. Rather, we must use the opportunity and strength of recovery to push harder in this direction.
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The next step is the special Jobs Summit in November. I have drawn up a set of Employment Guidelines, which were endorsed by my Commission colleagues on Wednesday, and which will be examined by the Heads of State and Government at the Jobs Summit next month (November 1997).
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Across all of these objectives, we have to see the achievement of our fourth priority, equal opportunities of women and men as a means to modernising our societies so that men and women can work on equal terms, with equal responsibilities, to develop the growth capacity of our economies.
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The employment guidelines, ladies and gentlemen, stress two more things, commitment and credibility. The credibility of the new Treaty demands that we develop an appropriate and workable approach to improving employment performance, and that we are seen to do so.
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The Monetary Dimension Paul McIntyre,Deputy Director, Europe, UK TreasuryI am very pleased as a British official, to be asked to speak at this conference about monetary union.
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How will the ECB work? Clearly, it will have to take a view on monetary conditions across the whole single currency area. We don't yet know how it will interpret the price stability objective, nor whether it will adopt monetary or inflation targets.
Published the 01 September 1997
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This brief description of how macro policies will work in EMU might leave the impression that there will be no machinery to bring the different players together.
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Let me try to sum up. What are the implications for enterprises shortly to be in the single currency area?
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Economic and monetary union will begin on 1st January 1999, in less than eight months time.
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The legal framework is already in place and consists of: Council Regulation 1103/97 on certain provisions relating to the introduction of the euro.
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The other building blocks of EMU are in place In addition to work on technical aspects of the changeover, considerable efforts have been made towards developing the policy framework required to ensure that EMU is successful and sustainable.
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The euro will affect every business function, from IT to marketing and procurement.
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For its part, the Commission is committed to ensuring that the cost changeover for private companies will be as low as possible.
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Relevant publications on the euro by the European Commission Newsletter.
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I hope my views are of interest to you and that I will not have to resort to the Oscar Wilde quote. Wilde, when asked how the premiere of one of his plays had gone, replied:"Oh the play was a great success, but the audience was a total failure"
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However, like almost every other major positive development through history, the Euro will not be born without pain.
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The key issue for businesses at this stage, is to assess the specific impact on their operations.
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Facing up to the competitive threat from the US and from the fast developing regions of the Far East requires us quite simply to reduce our cost base and improve our productivity.
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Terms such as "reinventing the company", "organisational renewal" and the "empowered organisation" have arisen to describe change-efforts where entrepreneurship is a central ingredient.
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Most of the debate on European Monetary Union has concentrated on economic issues. However, since its foundation the European Union has always had a strong social dimension.
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However, despite such support, trade unions still, both in Ireland and throughout Europe, harbour certain concerns.
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Our partners in Europe must also recognise that the vulnerability of peripheral economies to third countries' exchange rates.
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This paper contains a report on the Human Resource Strategies operating in ten companies in Ireland.
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Both in our experience and on the evidence of our study, there is definite trend towards a holistic approach to HR management.
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What did these successful companies in the study do in respect of Human Resource strategies?
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Values related to interactions between people, to the contributions of people and generally to deeply held beliefs about the worth of people in the organisation.
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The need to manage change has become a prime challenge for organisations as we draw towards the end of the twentieth century and, without going into all the reasons for this state of affairs, is likely to remain a prime challenge into the foreseeable future.
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Reference has already been made to the question of Benchmarking and its use. The companies in the survey also used measurements of many kinds as feedback to assess progress.
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It is not possible here to go into all the approaches to involvement and communication in use in the companies in the survey. Communication can be seen as taking place at a number of levels e.g., company level, departmental, work group and individual levels (called "one on ones" in one company).
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While five of the companies were unionised, in none of them had there ever been a serious dispute resulting in strike action or any other form of industrial action and this included two companies which had undergone considerable down sizing.
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A number of organisations in our study have or are moving away from a highly stratified grading structures towards one or two grade structures.
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Although a relatively small proportion of Irish organisations have introduced annualised hours pay systems to date, a number of our survey companies have moved in this direction.
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These schemes are tax efficient ways of rewarding people. A number of Revenue rules must be observed.
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A number of the companies surveyed did not move pay in line with national wage agreements.
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The coming of the euro will have profound implications for Irish human resources professionals and other managers.
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