http://www.siera-leone.org/2003/08/09/rebels-hang-on-to-liberia-port-2/ Sierra Leone News and Events Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:32:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.siera-leone.org/2003/08/09/rebels-hang-on-to-liberia-port-2/comment-page-1/#comment-11 News About Marketing » Blog Archive » NFL’s medical marketing partnerships raise conflict-of-interest… Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:27:36 +0000 http://www.siera-leone.org/2003/08/09/rebels-hang-on-to-liberia-port-2/#comment-11 [...] NFL’s medical marketing partnerships raise conflict-of-interest…NFL News - Apr 11, 2008“Click here to see a Ravens physician. ” The link took fans to the page for Union Memorial Hospital’s sports medicine program. The implication was clear: If Union Memorial doctors are good enough for the Ravens, they’re good enough for a weekend warrior needing an orthopedist. The partnership between Union Memorial’s parent company, MedStar Health, and the Ravens is potentially lucrative for both. The team receives sponsorship money, and the hospital can promote its affiliation with the franchise. In 2004, after a spate of negative publicity, the NFL quietly enacted a policy that prohibits clubs from entering into marketing contracts with health care organizations that require the team to use doctors from the medical group. “We wanted to be sure that medical decisions are unaffected by possible conflicts of interest, whether actual or perceived,” NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said.Related: AFRICA: THOUSANDS OF LIBERIAN REFUGEES IN DIRE NEED OF AID. [...] [...] NFL’s medical marketing partnerships raise conflict-of-interest…NFL News – Apr 11, 2008“Click here to see a Ravens physician. ” The link took fans to the page for Union Memorial Hospital’s sports medicine program. The implication was clear: If Union Memorial doctors are good enough for the Ravens, they’re good enough for a weekend warrior needing an orthopedist. The partnership between Union Memorial’s parent company, MedStar Health, and the Ravens is potentially lucrative for both. The team receives sponsorship money, and the hospital can promote its affiliation with the franchise. In 2004, after a spate of negative publicity, the NFL quietly enacted a policy that prohibits clubs from entering into marketing contracts with health care organizations that require the team to use doctors from the medical group. “We wanted to be sure that medical decisions are unaffected by possible conflicts of interest, whether actual or perceived,” NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said.Related: AFRICA: THOUSANDS OF LIBERIAN REFUGEES IN DIRE NEED OF AID. [...]

]]> http://www.siera-leone.org/2003/08/09/rebels-hang-on-to-liberia-port-2/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Career and Employment News » Blog Archive » How to Choose a Career Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:58:21 +0000 http://www.siera-leone.org/2003/08/09/rebels-hang-on-to-liberia-port-2/#comment-10 [...] PATA Annual Meeting Session Discusses Need to Invest In Human…e-Travel Blackboard - e-Travel Blackboard (press release) - Apr 11, 2008The meeting was held to discuss and share ideas in regards to employment and investing in Human resource development in the travel and tourism industry. The labour pool in many Asia Pacific destinations will shrink even while more than two-thirds of the world’s new jobs will be created in the region. This however, does not necessitate slower travel and tourism industry growth rates. "To match the two the answer lies in investing in human resource development (HRD) and new policies that enable labour mobility… Furthermore, at less than US$5000 per graduate investment, the project more than pays for itself in terms of reduced staff turnover and retraining costs. Kenneth Low, Director of Strategy at IHG and the 2008 PATA Face of the Future, said his company would need to fill 200,000 new hotel jobs over next three years. IHG’s approach is give and take: "What do we want our people to do? What do we do for our people?" To positively position IHG, the company’s multilingual careers website makes promises to prospective employees that they will have room to be themselves, to get involved and room to grow. IHG’s openness to individual identities and passions, its partnership-based HRD strategy, as well as its own chain of IHG Academies, have helped the company perform strongly on employee satisfaction surveys. Pradeepa Dahanayake of SriLankan Airlines described her organisation’s HRM and HRD as a "continuous flow" of internal staff development and external training; recruitment agents; management trainee programmes and career development. She emphasised that it was important for HR professionals to understand what is going on in the marketplace and industry, on a local and global scale. Ms Dahanayake cited the radical growth in global aviation bringing challenges to airlines in the region, such as the need to compete for a fair share of the more than 42,000 additional pilots needed by 2020.Related: Liberia And American Interventionism [...] [...] PATA Annual Meeting Session Discusses Need to Invest In Human…e-Travel Blackboard – e-Travel Blackboard (press release) – Apr 11, 2008The meeting was held to discuss and share ideas in regards to employment and investing in Human resource development in the travel and tourism industry. The labour pool in many Asia Pacific destinations will shrink even while more than two-thirds of the world’s new jobs will be created in the region. This however, does not necessitate slower travel and tourism industry growth rates. "To match the two the answer lies in investing in human resource development (HRD) and new policies that enable labour mobility… Furthermore, at less than US$5000 per graduate investment, the project more than pays for itself in terms of reduced staff turnover and retraining costs. Kenneth Low, Director of Strategy at IHG and the 2008 PATA Face of the Future, said his company would need to fill 200,000 new hotel jobs over next three years. IHG’s approach is give and take: "What do we want our people to do? What do we do for our people?" To positively position IHG, the company’s multilingual careers website makes promises to prospective employees that they will have room to be themselves, to get involved and room to grow. IHG’s openness to individual identities and passions, its partnership-based HRD strategy, as well as its own chain of IHG Academies, have helped the company perform strongly on employee satisfaction surveys. Pradeepa Dahanayake of SriLankan Airlines described her organisation’s HRM and HRD as a "continuous flow" of internal staff development and external training; recruitment agents; management trainee programmes and career development. She emphasised that it was important for HR professionals to understand what is going on in the marketplace and industry, on a local and global scale. Ms Dahanayake cited the radical growth in global aviation bringing challenges to airlines in the region, such as the need to compete for a fair share of the more than 42,000 additional pilots needed by 2020.Related: Liberia And American Interventionism [...]

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