Cloud technology: just when should you take the plunge?
For most HR teams, the benefits of the latest cloud HR software – whether to replace an ageing legacy system or a confusion of spreadsheets – is well established. What isn’t so clear is just how and when you should take the plunge and what sort of support you should expect during the transition period. […]
Is it HR’s duty to resolve the ‘productivity puzzle?’
HR teams have a national duty to improve economic productivity by encouraging and enabling individuals to take responsibility for their own learning. According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, the UK’s productivity, as measured by output per hour, is respectively 27, 30 and 35 percentage points lower than in France, the […]
The Madness of Kings: leadership, hyper-masculinity & mental health
If you had a choice to return to Earth after this lifetime, and, while resting on your celestial cloud, were given a menu of gender, racial and sexual orientation preferences to choose from, what would you pick for your next time around? Of course, approaching this logically, received wisdom would tell you to check the […]
Priming teams: to do it or not?
There’s so much rich insight coming out of the academic sector that HR professionals need to know. At Academics’ Corner we feature the best HR researchers that tell you what they’ve found and what you need to do differently on the back of the research. Get connected to the academic sector through Academics’ Corner and make sure […]
“There has never been a better time than today for candidates to find a job in which they can truly be themselves.”
David Bernard is the CEO of AssessFirst, a technology platform that offers predictive recruitment solutions for organisations. The information they gather helps organisations understand candidate potential and how their way of working impacts performance and engagement. Jamie Lawrence, Editor, HRZone: How are companies using recruitment agencies differently? What is their role in the modern recruitment environment […]
Millennials aren’t from Mars; employers aren’t from Venus
Justin Hughes is Managing Director of Mission Excellence, a consultancy which accelerates organisational effectiveness. Justin previously spent 12 years as an RAF fighter pilot and served for 3 years on the Red Arrows. He is a renowned speaker on performance and risk and the author of The Business of Excellence, published by Bloomsbury. He can be found on […]
Sir Ken Robinson: “There are processes that are more likely to encourage innovation than not.”
Sir Ken Robinson gave the most viewed TED talk of all time, Do schools kill creativity?. HRZone Managing Editor Jamie Lawrence caught up with Sir Ken at HR Tech World in London, in March 2017, and asked him about creativity in organisations, the role of the human being in future organisations, and more. “There’s a […]
Change leadership: how to give employees a sense of control
A few years ago a group of London psychology students were charged with carrying out a survey on the general public. Their study consisted of approaching strangers in the street and posing the question, “Which of the following would you find the most physically challenging? (1) deep sea diving, (2) power gliding, (3) addressing a […]
Gig economy: what’s its place in the future of work?
In this five-part series to understanding the gig economy, we’ll look at a number of topics: What is the gig economy? How to integrate freelancers into a talent acquisition strategy The challenges of managing a freelance workforce Address skills shortages with talent pools and the hidden workforce Gig economy: what’s its place in the future […]
Address skills shortages with talent pools and the hidden workforce
In this five-part series to understanding the gig economy, we’ll look at a number of topics: What is the gig economy? How to integrate freelancers into a talent acquisition strategy The challenges of managing a freelance workforce Address skills shortages with talent pools and the hidden workforce Gig economy: what’s its place in the future […]
Gig economy: the challenges of managing a freelance workforce
In this five-part series to understanding the gig economy, we’ll look at a number of topics: What is the gig economy? How to integrate freelancers into a talent acquisition strategy The challenges of managing a freelance workforce Address skills shortages with talent pools and the hidden workforce Gig economy: what’s its place in the future […]
Gig economy: how to integrate it into a wider talent acquisition strategy
In this five-part series to understanding the gig economy, we’ll look at a number of topics: What is the gig economy? How to integrate freelancers into a talent acquisition strategy The challenges of managing a freelance workforce Address skills shortages with talent pools and the hidden workforce Gig economy: what’s its place in the future […]
Gig economy: what exactly is it?
In this five-part series to understanding the gig economy, we’ll look at a number of topics: What is the gig economy? How to integrate freelancers into a talent acquisition strategy The challenges of managing a freelance workforce Address skills shortages with talent pools and the hidden workforce Gig economy: what’s its place in the future […]
“Going into opening our new location in Dublin, we knew we were entering a war for talent.”
Cathy Donnelly is HR Director at Liberty IT. She was previously UK & Ireland HR Manager at Ikea and before that Head of HR at Botanic Inns. In 2015, Liberty IT opened a new office in Dublin (with an established one in Belfast) and Cathy talked to us about how they smoothed the process and […]
If your organisation came to life as a person, how would you describe it?
This is one of the questions that Martin Reddington asks with his employee engagement tool. On March 9th, I went to the launch of the white paper on workforce engagement in the public sector, where Reddington shared his research and work with us. The presentation was interesting in several regards – since I normally work in […]
Gig economy: the equality challenge?
This article was co-authored by Sean Dempsey, Partner, Lewis Silkin LLP and David Hopper, Associate, Lewis Silkin LLP. The onward march of technology and the “gig economy” is re-shaping the workplace with the move away from traditional “9-to-5” jobs and towards technology-enabled “gigging” for a multiplicity of work providers at any one time. An authoritative study published […]
Why it’s HR’s job to kill organisational complexity
Adam Howe is the founder of Stop., a simplicity consulting and training business. Stop. simplifies organisations by eliminating unnecessary complexity. Jamie Lawrence, Editor, HRZone: What do you mean by simplicity and complexity? Adam Howe, Founder, Stop.: Organisations are, by definition, complex systems. Some of this complexity creates value (e.g. a new product), whilst some complexity […]
Why we need simplicity to cope with complexity – mindfulness in business life
This article was written by Parham Vasaiely, Feature Strategy and Engineering Manager of Autonomous Vehicles at Jaguar Land Rover. He is the chair of the JLR Mindfulness Programme. Before joining JLR, he worked at Airbus, as well as a management consultant in Switzerland. Parham is part of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Mindfulness Initiative. Parham will […]
Automation & Robotic Service Orchestration: driving the evolution of HR Shared Services
HR today is not a case of human or machine. We have now reached an age of human and machine. The variable now is how the division of labour is managed. Yet the role of automation in HR shared services centres has been limited in scope and success. Few companies are doing it well, and […]
“When you explicitly put shareholders at the top of the pecking order, the others don’t make out as well.”
This is an interview with Rick Wartzman on the rise of the gig economy in America. Keep reading for Rick’s bio and our questions. Who is Rick Wartzman? Rick Wartzman is a senior advisor at the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University, a contributor to Fortune magazine, and the author of The End of Loyalty: […]