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Tackling Undeclared Work In The Agricultural Sector, With A Focus Upon Seasonal Workers And Horticulture: Background Paper For The European Platform On Tackling Undeclared Work Seminar, Colin C. Williams Jan 2019

Tackling Undeclared Work In The Agricultural Sector, With A Focus Upon Seasonal Workers And Horticulture: Background Paper For The European Platform On Tackling Undeclared Work Seminar, Colin C. Williams

Colin C Williams

This background paper briefly sets out the prevalence of undeclared work in the agricultural sector in the European Union and the approaches and tools available for tackling such work, with a focus upon horticulture and undeclared seasonal workers. The intention is to stimulate the thoughts of participants attending the European Platform Tackling Undeclared Work seminar on “Tackling undeclared work in the agricultural sector: with a focus upon seasonal workers and horticulture” (to be held in Brussels on January 24th 2019) on potential policy which could be adopted to transform undeclared work into declared work in the agricultural sector, especially with …


Core Competencies, Core Values And Core Compromises, Jeffrey Keisler, Edward Romar Dec 2018

Core Competencies, Core Values And Core Compromises, Jeffrey Keisler, Edward Romar

Jeffrey Keisler

To achieve success businesses enunciate values and mission, secure resources, develop capabilities, and execute strategies.  For firms to succeed, managers must make decision about what should remain, be abandoned and acquired or developed?  In the decision-making process, management often overlooks, compromises, neglects, and dismisses the firm’s history, unique industry position, and fundamental strengths in a single-minded focus on the future.  In this paper we discuss one aspect of strategy that is neglected in the literature.  Most of the literature focuses on strategy and competencies, with little focus on or awareness of its opposite, the compromises management makes as they look …