Are your people processes enabling employees to work to their potential? Are HR initiatives making a measurable difference to the bottom line? These are some of the questions that will be tackled by speakers at next week’s CIPD conference, where […]
Many HR people rely heavily on spreadsheets to help them record key people-related information. It’s an approach that works well when you are managing just a handful of employees or want to work with a very specific set of data. […]
The need to streamline people processes and cut down on admin is often the driver behind the purchase of an HR software system. But, the latest generation solutions are much more than an efficient replacement for spreadsheets. Used to their […]
If you’re thinking about investing in HRIS software for the first time, or planning to upgrade from an existing system, the HR Software Show 2014 at Olympia (18th-19th June) is an essential date for your diary. It’s a great opportunity […]
There’s a real sense of optimism in the air as the economy continues to pick up and survey after survey tells us business confidence is on the rise. It looks like small and mid-sized businesses will be driving much of […]
Just how global businesses of all shapes and sizes have become has really come home to me recently. Over the past few weeks I’ve talked to a company teaching language skills to 40 million users around the world, a business […]
Research from Deloitte has underlined the increasingly global nature of organisations of all shapes and sizes. Now of course the concept of doing business globally is not new. As LBS professor Lynda Gratton points out in a recent article in […]
If a recent report from HayGroup is to be believed, HR is on the cusp of a revolution. Social, technological, demographic and environmental trends are radically transforming both the way organisations are structured and the way people are managed. HR, […]
There’s been much talk about the potential of The Cloud to bring down the cost of HR solutions. So it was perhaps surprising to see a story in the latest edition of Computer Weekly reporting that Grant Thornton is spending […]
There’s little doubt that as the economy begins to recover, talent is on the move. Numerous surveys over recent months have shown that as business confidence returns, employees who have been sitting it out for the sake of job security […]
