28th October 2020
Life as an HR representative is not cut out for everyone. The job involves a lot of responsibility. After all, you’re working with a company’s most valuable resource – its employees. Furthermore, you are constantly juggling between routine tasks and tasks that require a lot of empathy and human connection. In addition, as the new […]
30th January 2020
This guest post was provided by Daniel Williams. Dan was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at the age of 8 and is now helping to improve the lives of others living with sight loss through his business, Visualise Training and Consultancy. We’ll let him take it from here. For two long years, I struggled in an administrative role […]
5th July 2019
Money Money Money Recently, the gender pay gap has come into sharp focus with more organisations publishing their pay gap reporting. Why is this an issue? Minister for Women and Equalities Justine Greening said: “We have more women in work, more women-led businesses than ever before and the highest proportion of women on the boards […]
4th July 2019
To engage employees you need to eliminate resistance by getting employees to do tasks because THEY want to do them. When you find yourself continually nagging them to get things done it’s a sign that they’re not engaged. When you pile pressure on top of this resistance you’ve got yourself a very unhappy and unmotivated […]
21st September 2018
There’s a range of things to inform new employees about, and it can be challenging trying to remember them all. Therefore, we’re going to break this into manageable chunks and take a look at 6 things you should inform them about regarding data protection. If staff members aren’t aware of data protection policies, procedures, and […]
13th July 2015
Over the past decade the notion of employee engagement has positioned itself at the forefront of management thought. Generally viewed as an internal state of being, employee engagement encompasses the physical, mental and emotional states of individuals, building on the earlier concepts of work effort, organisational commitment, job satisfaction and productivity. Several definitions of engagement […]
26th June 2015
In the movies and on TV, the maverick cop is always the hero who doesn’t do things by the book but always solves the crime. Needless to say, in the office environment, the maverick employee is the last thing you need. Or is it? While companies spend years developing a set of procedures, a persona, […]
9th June 2015
Companies can often adopt a laissez-faire attitude to employee engagement. They’ll say that natural selection will weed out any employee who doesn’t feel inspired by their day job, and that the switched-on ones will stick around and be productive. But it’s not as simple as that. Without a brutal regime of dismissing employees who don’t […]
10th March 2015
The history of personnel management isn’t quite as straightforward as you may think. You could be forgiven for assuming that human resources is so ubiquitous and essential that there couldn’t possibly have been a time when industry managed without it. You’d be wrong. The world managed to get through an agricultural and an industrial revolution […]
24th January 2015
You might think human resources is so ubiquitous and essential that there couldn’t possibly have been a time when industry managed without it. You’d be wrong. The world managed to get through an agricultural and an industrial revolution without HR becoming, in today’s parlance, “a thing”. Looking at the successes and giant leaps that were […]
11th December 2014
Human resources experts can often be found discussing the big questions of our era, such as: is presenteeism worse than unjustified absenteeism? We’ll take a look at potential motivations and cures for this very modern affliction. Presenteeism is where employees come in to work when they should really be off sick. It is the polar […]
4th November 2014
Absence is an issue that all human resources departments have to pay attention to. It can play a part in deciding how productive and motivated individual employees are, which in turn can influence promotion or disciplinary proceedings. However it can also be a guide to the state of staff morale and can be an early […]