Pulling people up on below par performance is vital. Not just because it’s essential to the organisation that everyone is pulling their weight, but because not addressing significant issues head on, isn’t helpful to employees either. The problem, however, is that all too often, people come out of a performance review knowing that they are […]
How ‘happy’ is your workplace? Do jokes get thrown around the office? Are people smiling and engaging with one another? Or is a silent, uncomfortable atmosphere where everyone keeps their heads down? Recent research by Ivan Robertson and Carry Cooper tells us that employees’ happiness at work is, to some extent, determined by the personality […]
What is the Bradford Factor? In Human Resources Management, the Bradford Factor is a calculation used to generate an absence ‘score’ for individuals based on employee absence data. The idea is that frequent short and unplanned absences are more harmful to a business than long-term ones, so the higher the employee’s Bradford Factor score, the […]
The gig economy has again been hitting the headlines, with courier company Hermes announcing the creation of a new worker status, ‘self-employed plus’. This move, considered by many to be a huge step towards a fairer gig economy, guarantees minimum wage and holiday pay to its drivers without affecting their self-employed status. With labour shortages […]
What is an HR portal? An HR portal, sometimes known as an employee portal, is as an online central hub where employees can access information about their workplace quickly and easily. A growing number of companies are turning to internal social platforms to help employees stay up-to-date, connect with colleagues and work together seamlessly on […]
How much support do you give your employees in planning and developing their careers? You may think that’s an odd question to be asking – given the increasingly widespread view that the ‘job for life’ is long gone and traditional career paths are no more. In fact, a recent survey found that nearly one in […]
How does your organisation assess the productivity of its people? Are there formal targets that people need to meet or is it a more informal affair, and left to individual managers to decide whether their people are doing as much as they possibly could? Recent research from the CIPD suggests that productivity is an issue […]
Equipping employees with the skills to thrive in a complex, constantly changing world of work is one of the biggest challenges facing organisations today. And, for the most part, companies are dependent on their line managers to ensure this happens. But in a recent Gartner survey of HR practitioners, almost half said their managers are […]
Office romances can be a real headache for HR. Even with an official policy on personal relationships at work, these cases are rarely black and white. It’s often left to HR to decide what action, if any, needs to be taken – not an easy job by any means – especially if relationships turn sour. […]
Further confirmation – if it were needed – that digital skills are going to be core for HR professionals of the future, comes in the shape of a recent article from the HR Director. The magazine puts digital-savvy HR advisors in the top 10 most in-demand roles for 2019. There’s no doubt that technology is […]
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