How to... manage men

A lot of people in the HR profession are women and a lot of the people they have to deal with are men. Political correctness pretends there’s no difference between men and women. But that kind of attitude doesn’t help you manage. Here’s a brief guide to male behaviour in the office:


Dinosaurs

Many women find male behaviour at work baffling at best and astonishingly brutish at worst. The answer to this is evolution and the fact that, mentally and physically, men are best adapted to hunting mammoth.
 

It’s untenable to have a normal retirement age in public-sector schemes that is significantly different from the state retirement age

Brian Bailey, Director of pensions, West Midlands Pension Fund and member of High Pay Commission