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Successful collaboration between HP and Portsmouth Business School

The HP employees, known as 'Lean Sigma Black Belts', are an elite group of individuals trained to use 'lean' methodology, which is based on identifying waste within an organisation and focusing on customer needs. Half way through the programme, they are reporting a significant change in how they work within the company.

Employee and student Ray Dodd said: “The course challenges my inherent beliefs, attitudes, behaviours and takes me well outside my comfort zone. I'm learning all the time and the tutors really provoke thought, self reliance and self belief.”

Illegal file sharers ‘Robin Hoods of the digital age’

The research by Joe Cox, from the University of Portsmouth Business School, is the first study to distinguish between the characteristics, motivations and behaviours of different types of file sharers. It is published in the academic journal, Information Economics and Policy.

Mr Cox used Finnish national survey data, which captured file sharing habits, socio-economic status and attitudes towards legal and illegal file sharing of 6103 respondents from across a range of income brackets. Ninety-five per cent of the respondents were male and the average age was 28.

Portsmouth students offer free advice on employment law

Students from the University’s School of Law interview clients before researching the law and procedure under the direction of tutors. They then send clients detailed written advice, which is supervised and signed by a practising solicitor. All work is done confidentially.

They advise on unfair dismissal, various forms of discrimination, redundancy, harassment, the national minimum wage, working time regulations and work permits for migrant workers.

'I became a bus driver': How one student paid her university fees

Louisa Burton saw an advert for drivers on the back of a bus and thought it would be the perfect way to spend her summer months saving invaluable funds to help pay for university. 

The Accounting and Business student completed the bus driver training in Inverness during her summer holidays before starting university, and at the age of 18 she became the youngest bus driver in Scotland.

Auditing students advise local charities

A dozen third-year students are working with The Rowans Hospice and The Roberts Centre in a partnership which offers the charities accounting advice and in return gives students a real-world learning experience.

The students examine different aspects of the charities’ accounting systems under the supervision of one of their tutors, an experienced auditor, before submitting a final report to the charities’ trustees.

Portsmouth students offer free advice on employment law

The students interview clients before researching the law and procedure under the direction of tutors. They then send clients detailed written advice, which is supervised and signed by a practising solicitor. All work is done confidentially.

They advise on unfair dismissal, various forms of discrimination, redundancy, harassment, the national minimum wage, working time regulations and work permits for migrant workers.

Portsmouth students reach IBM challenge final

The challenge is a business simulation competition for university undergraduates to improve their knowledge of the business world, put theory into practice and develop their team-working, leadership and employability skills.

The team from the European Business Programme will compete against nine others in the grand live final at IBM Bedfont Lakes in Middlesex.

New Mock Courtroom Opens at the University of Portsmouth Business School

The £1m development is an exact replica of a crown court, complete with dock, witness box, public gallery, jury room and interview rooms. State-of-the-art audiovisual facilities allow court proceedings to be filmed and simultaneously fed into adjacent teaching rooms or recorded for future feedback sessions.

”Clients” can give video testimony and the jury retiring room is also fitted with video equipment so jury deliberations can be recorded and analysed.

Research into the Recession in Hampshire

Researchers at the University of Portsmouth Business School are questioning businesses in Hampshire and early results reveal that more than six out of ten companies have been hit by the recession.  Seventy per cent report that they had been hit very or fairly severely with sales and profits down. This is significantly worse than figures reported by Business Link for the whole of the South East at the start of the year when only a third said that they had been hit by the recession.

Study into workplace fun receives prestigious award!

Dr Samantha Warren received a 'Highly Commended' award for her thesis entitled "Consuming Work: An exploration of organisational aestheticisation" in the 2006 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Awards.? The research examined workplaces cultures of organised fun and play.  

Emerald Group Publishing publishes the world's largest collection of international business and management journals and the awards seek to encourage, celebrate and reward excellence in international management research.  

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