Corporate Research Associates: A Deep Dive into Their Human Capital Solutions
Corporate Research Associates (CRA) stands out as a preferred provider of human capital solutions, serving an array of clients from Fortune 500 companies to small and mid-sized organizations. Operating within various industries such as Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Cosmetic, Food & Beverage, and Life Sciences, CRA’s specialization model allows them to deliver a level of service unmatched in the industry. This article delves into the intricacies of CRA’s operations, their specialization within functional verticals, and their impact on the industries they serve.
The Essence of Human Capital Solutions
Human capital solutions encompass a broad spectrum of services aimed at optimizing an organization’s human resources. These services include talent acquisition, workforce planning, employee engagement, leadership development, and more. The goal is to ensure that organizations have the right people, with the right skills, in the rig…
Autism “Relegated to the Sidelines”
Students at the Autism Awareness, Care and Treatment Centre doing arts and crafts. Credit: Jamila Akweley Okertchiri/IPS
ACCRA, May 18 2012 (IPS) – At first glance Nortey Quaynor looks like any ordinary 29-year-old Ghanaian. If you spend a little time with him, though, you soon realise that something is different.
He avoids eye contact and gives one-word answers to most questions. Sometimes he covers his ears with his hands to block out the sounds of children in a nearby playground.
When he was just an infant Quaynor was diagnosed with autism, a developmental disorder that is characterised by impaired social interactions.
Nortey is a good guy only if you understand what autism is, said Abeiku Grant, who taught Quaynor at the Autism Awareness, Care and Training Centre in Accra when he was younger.
If you don’t, you see him …
Peace Laureate Obama Urged to Back Arms Trade Treaty
President Barack Obama signs executive orders initiating 23 separate executive actions after announcing new measures to help prevent gun violence on Jan. 16, 2013. Credit: Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy
WASHINGTON, Mar 14 2013 (IPS) – Eighteen Nobel Peace Prize recipients called Thursday for President Barack Obama to take a leadership role in supporting a “historic” internationally binding agreement that would regulate the global arms trade, including instituting a strict ban on arms sales to states involved in egregious human rights abuses.
The call comes just ahead of a final round of negotiations towards an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), slated to be held Mar. 18-28 at the United Nations in New York. Advocates, particularly in Africa and Latin America, are pushing for an ATT that would fill a longstanding and fundamentally dangerous anomaly – th…
Violence Against Civilians Peaks in Central African Republic
The armed group Séléka recently reinforced its position in the northern provinces of the Central African Republic, notably in the northwest city of Paoua. Credit: Simon Davis/UK DFID/CC by 2.0
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 19 2013 (IPS) – As Michel Djotodia took his oath as the new president of the Central African Republic (CAR) on Aug. 18, Séléka, the coalition of rebel groups that he led and that helped him overthrow the government on Mar. 23, were still looting and killing civilians.
Already among the poorest nations in the world, this landlocked Central African country has seen its humanitarian crisis intensify over the last month as attacks by the Séléka multiplied in areas outside Bangui, CAR’s capital.
Order was partially restored in the capital as the international community convinced Djotodia to back down and change his title to interim presi…
U.N.’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals Remain Intact
Pakistani fishermen perform multiple tasks on their boat. This man makes fresh rotis (flat bread) from whole-meal flour, which the men eat with the fish they catch. Critics are demanding far stronger proposals to address extreme economic inequality and climate change from the U.N. Credit: Zofeen Ebrahim/IPS
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 4 2014 (IPS) – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has refused to jettison any of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by an Open Working Group of member states: goals aimed at launching the U.N. s new post-2015 development agenda through 2030.
In a new report synthesising the 17 goals, Ban said he was rearranging them in a focused and concise manner that enables us to communicate them to our partners and the global public .
The report, titled , presents an integrated set of six essential elements: dignity, people, prosperi…
Three Key Questions for Understanding Shifts in Global Poverty
Ending poverty and hunger once and for all – is it possible? Credit: United Nations
LONDON, Feb 9 2022 (IPS) – In 2010 and the following years, there was attention to the fact that much of global poverty had shifted to middle-income countries (for example , , and ).
The world’s poor hadn’t moved of course, but the countries that are home to large numbers of poor people had got better off on average and poverty hadn’t fallen as much as one might expect with economic growth in those countries moving from low-income to middle-income.
There were also some big questions over the . One could say the world’s poor live not in the world’s poorest countries but in fast growing countries and countries with albeit ‘locked’ by domestic political economy (who doesn…