Talent management: The leaders of tomorrow
Identifying high potential within a workforce is critical if today’s business leaders are to exploit fully its own human capital. Richard A MacKinnon explores how organisations can best identify, develop, deploy and retain the leaders of tomorrow. Leaders are human too. Recent events, in politics and the world of finance, have shone a light on […]
Ask the expert: Short-time working, now redundancy
An employer had placed a number of staff on short-time working to avoid making redundancies. However, redundancy is now essential for some of these employees. Esther Smith and Matthew Whelan advise on how to calculate the redundancy pay. The question:We have had a number of employees on short-time since October 2008. The short-time working was […]
A week in HR: Equality Bill and Working Time Directive
Lucie Mitchell reports on the Equality Bill published on Monday; the collapse of working time talks in Brussels; the CIPD’s new approach to developing HR professionals; and the first company to have been charged with corporate manslaughter since the new law came into force last year. The big news this week is the publication of […]
Legislation update: Can a shareholder be an employee?
Until recently, there was confusion over whether a controlling shareholder of a company could also be an employee. In some recent cases, the tribunal held that a shareholder was not an employee. However, the position has recently been clarified, says Richard White. The questions over whether a shareholder can also be an employee was recently […]
How to manage sickness absence in a downturn
Paul Avis highlights the importance of effective absence management during a downturn to ensure an expedient resolution and to protect the employer from litigation. Staff absence seriously affects the workplace as not only does it cost businesses £666 per year, per employee (CIPD Absence Management Survey 2009), it also puts pressure on those colleagues still […]
Employment tribunals and April’s new procedures
The changes to the statutory grievance and disciplinary procedures have grabbed the employment law headlines this month, but some other important changes to the employment tribunal procedure are also worth a mention, says Charles Price. An order amending section 4(3) of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 will now allow an employment judge to sit alone […]
Up in smoke: The strength continues, for now
This week, Becky Midgley is still not smoking, and has surprised herself with her own strength and willpower, despite putting herself into some tricky situations. The group is back on track and back into our regular weekly slot which saw numbers return to, well, only three of us actually, although we are assured through the […]
Stop talking learning: Start talking business
In these tough economic times, its time for L&D professionals to start thinking about business productivity and performance, and avoid the tunnel vision that training is always the answer, says Charles Jennings. There has never been a better time than now for training and development managers to review their modus operandi for delivering services to […]
Video: Your business is the training and development of your people
William Pollard, chairman emeritus of the ServiceMaster Company, explains why it’s critical for businesses to make the training and development of its people a top priority. Pollard has been with the organisation for over 30 years, and during that time has held the role of CEO twice. He remains an advisor to the company. Prior […]
Equality Bill: More red tape for employers
The Equality Bill, published today, will require employers with more than 250 staff to report on their gender pay gap from 2013.The Bill, which aims to narrow the gender pay gap, as well as tackle discrimination in all its forms, replaces nine major pieces of legislation and around 100 other measures to form a single […]
Success in a recession: How trustworthy are you?
Trust in our leaders and institutions is at an all time low, so how do you engender trust within your business? Blaire Palmer explains how to coach and develop the people in your organisation to trust more readily and be more trustworthy themselves. A survey of Americans in 2002 by Golin-Harris found that 69% of […]
Redundancy survivors: Managing increased workloads and stress
When redundancies are made, those surviving employees could be faced with having to work longer hours as they take on the workloads of their redundant colleagues. Yet, as Nick Golding discovers, all this can contribute hugely to employee stress and anxiety. When employers are backed into a corner and redundancy is the only solution, it […]
HR tip: Validity of warnings
These questions are being answered by Learn HR, a market leader in the provision of HR and payroll training and nationally-recognised professional qualifications. Question: "For how long are disciplinary warnings valid? What is meant by a 'warning on file'?" HR tip: Normally a final warning remains valid for 12 months and lesser warnings for six months. […]
Business psychology: Are you making the most of it?
The psychometric testing industry has developed rapidly in the last 20 years, but how can HR professionals ensure they continue to make the most of the latest steps forward? John Hackston explains how to use business psychology to unlock the potential of your people. Twenty years ago, psychometric testing had made it out of the […]
Budget 2009: Chancellor moves on unemployment to avoid another ‘lost generation’
Alistair Darling has promised not to allow short-term job losses to become long-term unemployment, announcing a raft of new measures aimed at helping the jobless gain skills and find work.Under new proposals revealed in the Chancellor’s 2009 budget speech, the government said that people under 25 who had been unemployed for over 12 months would […]
HRD 2009: Web 2.0 critical to HR’s innovation agenda
Web 2.0 technology forms one of the critical agendas for HR going forward, an expert has said.Addressing delegates at the HRD conference in London this week, Professor Graeme Martin, who was involved in the recent research report on Web 2.0 and HR for the CIPD, said that Web 2.0 promises to offer what other forms […]
Training your way out of the recession…
At last a solid academic report that suppots that which most of us know…Researchers from the Cranfield School of Management have released a report “Nurturing Talent”, which clearly supports the up-skilling of current staff, utilizing online training tools and not cutting the training budget is a smart thing to do in low economic times.If you […]
HRD 2009: HR must be “confidante” to CEO in a recession
CEOs want their HR directors to be a “sounding board” on all people issues during the downturn, according to a leading expert.Speaking at a seminar at the CIPD’s HRD conference, which explored what CEOs want from HR professionals, Steve Tappin, author of The Secrets of CEOs and advisor to some of the world’s top CEOs, […]
HRD 2009: Three rules to sustaining performance in a downturn, says expert
Solidarity, energy and autonomy are the three rules for creating organisational resilience during a downturn.This is according to Richard Reeves, director of the think-tank Demos, who was addressing delegates at the CIPD’s HRD conference in London this week. In his seminar examining how to sustain performance in a downturn, Reeves outlined the concepts around these […]
How does top talent react to cost cutting?
As businesses seek to consolidate and cut back, development opportunities for key talent may disappear. Claire Logan examines how to retain and motivate top talent whilst budgets are being slashed. Tactical cost cutting and management of redundancy programmes take up the majority of an HR team’s time during a recession. However, implementing both of these […]
