Please see our forward features list for 2005 below, together with service highlights and supplement links.
January 2005
HR predictions for 2005 – browse through some of the opinion and forecast pieces contributed by leading spokespeople in the field.
- CIPD forecast tough 2005 for HR
- Feature: Employment law 2005
- Feature: HR predictions – 2005
- Editor’s Comment: Forty winks in 2005?
- Staff resolve to be better employees
- Bank predicts worsening skills gap in 2005
February 2005
The future of payroll – from May 2005 managers were required to file year-end returns online. As payroll and HR professionals began to review their software capabilities, HRZone looked at the wider strategic picture including:
- Does the burden of red-tape increase the arguments for outsourcing?
- Where does outsourcing leave HR?
- How will advances in technology change the future of payroll?
- How can HR help to deliver improved business performance through cost savings?
Click here to see the Payroll supplement
March/April 2005
Latest legislation – with a special focus on the far-reaching Information and Consultation regulations we invited Dr Stephen Hardy Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester to unravel the obligations for HRZone members.
See his steps to HR compliance in our special Employment Law supplement together with viewpoints collected from Brendan Barber, TUC General Secretary and Mary Canavan, HR Director at the British Library on whether more red-tape justifies the existence of the HR function.
Click here to see the Employment Law & Consulting supplement
Fleet management and company cars – the company car is a perk enjoyed by around 1.6 million people but for those in charge, navigating the myriad of options, complying with the legislation and handling the tax rules can be a burden. To give anyone with ‘fleet’ in their title or those with responsibility for company vehicles a helping hand – HRZone compiled a special supplement.
Click here to see the Fleet management supplement
May/June 2005
Healthcare together with additional holiday has overtaken company cars as the most popular employee benefit; something HR practitioners cannot afford to ignore in a tight labour market. See our healthcare supplement for the latest issues, compliance obligations, trends and challenges.
Click here to see the Healthcare supplement
HRSS 2005 – Software – if you’re still swimming in the software abyss and want to get it right then see our dedicated software supplement for handy tips and advice including how to match your solution to HR objectives and ways to calculate the return on your investment.
Click here to see the HRSS 2005 – Software supplement
July/August 2005
Outsourcing and recruitment issues, looking at the state of the recruitment market and latest recruitment trends. How can HR help businesses to attract and retain the right people in a tight labour market?
- Jargon buster: Garden leave
- How to: Give and receive employment references
- Applicant tracking software the US way
- Mind the Gap: Beating the CV fraudsters
- HR Tip: New recruit fails to show
- Editor’s Comment: The new rules of engagement
- London 2012 – the HR Olympic Challenge
- Diversity at Accenture: Daring to be different
- HR Tip: Recouping training costs
- Age: The new discrimination
- HR Business Partnering – What does it really mean?
- The Couch?! Interview revelations – from whoppers to fibs
- Editor’s Comment: Can a leopard change its spots?
- Case studies: E-hiring in a tight labour market
September 2005
Rewards review, latest trends, issues and hot topics. What are the best rewards? How can HR use reward to motivate and engage staff? Should UK Plc be moving towards ‘cafeteria style’ rewards that recognize the diverse nature of the workforce?
- Top tips: Rewards and accolades that work
- Rewarding innovations: HRZone talks ‘Save to buy’ with HSA
- Colborn’s Corner: Benefits – your flexible friend?
- Pension savings: Are employees losing interest?
- Colborn’s Corner: The truth about work/life balance
- How to motivate through reward
- Offloading liabilities from defined benefit pension schemes
- Opinion: Healthy rewards pay
October 2005
Latest legislation. This will be the second trigger point of the year for new legislation. HRZone will focus on the new laws and examine the strategic decisions HR professionals will be faced with.
- Misconduct: A fair reason for dismissal?
- Employment law briefing: Sex, salaries and strikes
- What’s the answer? Adultery: Grounds for constructive dismissal?
- Indirect sex discrimination: A clouded view?
- Alcohol and drugs at work: The Kate Moss issue
- Employment law: Case round-up
- SOSR dismissal: A managerial prerogative?
- Hard(y) Law Talk: Parental rights at work – whatever next?
- The National Minimum Wage: a hike too far?
- Age discrimination: Will legislation help?
- Counting house: Deduction from wages
November 2005
Performance management – connecting individual performance with business strategy. This issue will focus on HR’s role in developing talent, measuring outputs and evaluating the return on investment.
December 2005
Round-up and reflections on 2005
Editor’s Choice:
HRZone is the most interactive community for the UK HR market offering a wealth of information to help HR professionals keep on top of latest news, views, opinions and thought in the field.
Key service highlights include:
- Feature series: a panel of series columnists comment each day on the range of burning HR and business issues that impact on people management today.
- Opinion: our weekly sounding-board for key HR commentators allows them to express their views and get on their soap box.
- Editor’s Comment: this Friday opinion piece from the Editor takes a look at a key issue or burning topic and presents the views of key spokespeople.
- HR Practitioner’s Diary: this weekly column follows the antics of HR Consultant, Sue Kingston – a self-confessed ‘Bridget Jones’.
- How did I get Here? find hints and tips for how to get to the top of the HR tree in our series of interviews with top HR professionals.
- What’s the answer? see expert answers to your burning questions.
- Reviews: regular book reviews from a panel of professionals digesting and analysing the latest HRM, training and business books on the market.
- HR and Payroll Tip: our weekly tip gives you the expert answer to thousands of issues and problems.
- Document Library: access a wide range of white papers, brochures, expert guides and much more, written by some of the key providers and vendors in the HR world.
- Any Answers? submit questions with the option to be anonymous at our problem solving forum, Any Answers to take advantage of the knowledge of thousands of HR experts for free.
- Humour: our weekly column ‘The Couch?!’ takes a light-hearted look at amusing tales, current affair hilarity and latest fashions and trends.
Would you like to contribute your views and thoughts to HR Zone in 2005? Contact the Editor: Annie Hayes
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Feature articles should be between 800-1000 words in length.
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