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Half of employees don’t have HR contact – so what next?
Laura Rennie 14 March 2016 PM survey results in the spotlight as CIPD Ayrshire Geographical Branch debates HR’s future When January’s issue of People Management landed on my doormat, I was taken aback by the shocking statistic that 48 per cent of workers surveyed by YouGov hadn’t spoken to an HR representative in the past […]
March 29, 2016
What is a meaningful redundancy consultation?
Redundancies are never a positive for a company, they can bring unease to staff and management alike. Before an employer gets to the redundancy stage they have gone through a number of emotional, analytical and objective stages evaluating a mass of different options and alternatives to avoid putting the company and their employees through a […]
March 23, 2016
Perceptions of leadership
Marianne Calnan 11 March 2016 Half of employees believe they are better people managers than their boss. Significant discrepancies in perceptions of leadership, according to survey – Managers believe they are much stronger at the people aspects of their role than the people they are actually managing, according to a new survey that lays bare the […]
March 21, 2016
It’s time to stop running businesses like machines
By Claire Warren, 10 March 2016 Management thinker urges audience at CIPD event to prioritise humanity over hierarchy Half of all jobs will be replaced by machines in the future unless we start to think about “what is so important about being human”, according to author and business leader Margaret Heffernan. “If we don’t start […]
March 16, 2016
Kindness
Kindness; in this high tech, high stress, highly “productive” age, is it redundant? Does it have a place in modern business? We are living with the business legacy of “Greed is Good” and the bully’s might makes right; the political rise of Donald Trump in the US is a prime example of this. Those who […]
March 15, 2016
Britain’s Healthiest Workplace 2016
UK employers are failing to adequately invest in the health and wellbeing of their employees, which is costing the UK economy £57bn a year in lost productivity. This is why Britain’s Healthiest Workplace is important. Britain’s Healthiest Workplace is the UK’s most comprehensive workplace wellness study. It is a dual survey completed by both employer […]
March 14, 2016
Investors in People accreditation
A client recently expressed an interest in Investors in People accreditation and so when the opportunity to attend an Introduction to Investors in People conference came up we jumped at the chance to learn more about the IIP standard. IIP is currently transitioning accreditation from Version 5 to Version 6. Version 5 was launched in […]
March 10, 2016
Women; fine tune your networking skills
With International Women’s Day earlier this week there has been a large amount of focus on women in business. The gender pay gap is slowly reducing with recent research reporting the figure moving from 9.6% in 2014 to 9.4% in April 2015. However we suggest that women are more proactive taking steps to negotiate themselves a […]
March 9, 2016
Who is your office Mum?
Every Company has an ‘Office Mum’ – Here’s how you know if it’s you! With Mother’s Day just around the corner it had me thinking about how many motherly figures we have in our lives. There’s our actual mum, a grandparent, that one friend who is old before their time and without a doubt – […]
March 4, 2016
Protected and without prejudice conversations
During the conversation, anything said cannot be utilised in any unfair dismissal procedures. A protected conversation can be entered into at any time in the employee life cycle, however if the employee has not completed two years’ service, there are alternative termination options available, as they will usually not enjoy full employment rights. The usual […]
March 3, 2016
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