Michael Skapinker | Latest Management columns from the Financial Times

Michael Skapinker's column on Business and Society appears on Thursdays. An assistant editor and editor of the FT’s special reports, he was born in South Africa and educated at Witwatersrand and Cambridge universities. He began his journalistic career in Greece and joined the FT in London in 1986.

He received the Work Foundation Members’ Award for his contribution to the understanding of working life and was named Columnist of the Year at the 2008 WorkWorld Media Awards and Business Commentator of the Year at the 2012 Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards.

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Refuges of tranquillity are under siege as peace and quiet becomes an increasingly rare commodity

For all the grumbling, the similarities in the way we speak have had their benefits

Three new histories of language and of dictionaries spell out the resistance to linguistic change

It is difficult to see how corruption can be eliminated unless people are free to expose it

When you sum up at the end of the day, try to draw the narrative together

A mouse is not always greener than a car

It is hard to crack down on corporate tax without other countries doing the same

An entrepreneur who arrived as a child refugee experienced joy and sadness in equal measure

A rewarding relationship has been squandered

If you don’t know the difference by now, what else don’t you know?

Far from heralding a new era of British assertiveness, Gary McKinnon’s case is exceptional

Shareholder demands can fly in the face of strategic planning

The focus of dissent is moving closer to home

For all the talk of consumers taking control, we know little about their effect

Beyond the strategic logic, national differences could also explain the thinking behind the deal

Campaigners should be subject to the same scrutiny as manufacturers

Work benefits convicts and society that puts them behind bars

If companies want multilingual workers, they should pay a premium for them

Businesses whose aims extend no further than profit can end up destroying themselves

Much music is still local, made for its own market and unknown elsewhere

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