Peter Hines et al
Financial Times Prentice Hall, £24.99
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Nike is monitoring the working conditions and management actions of one of its Mexican suppliers after factory workers complained of mistreatment and unfair sackings.
Councils have been given new powers to assess the employment and training records of contractors before awarding them work, according to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. Councils can now adopt similar procedures to those used by housing associations, which can demand that contractors use a proportion of local labour on construction projects.
Anthony Vlamis and Bob Smith
Capstone, £9.99
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The government's e-envoy has warned that the public sector will be increasingly demanding of IT suppliers as it continues to work more closely with the private sector. Speaking at the launch of the BuyIT e-procurement network's new guidelines for reverse auctions, Andrew Pinder said he would not tolerate suppliers that do not put their best people on government projects.
Martin Lindstrom
Kogan Page, £25
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A US electronics manufacturer piloting Microsoft’s BizTalk Accelerator series has said it lacks documentation, orientation and scalability. The software lets purchase orders be exchanged between processes defined by public standards and a company’s internal business processes. www.microsoft.com