Effecting sustainable change: A practitioner’s view … continued
Change agents need to keep themselves, their team and organisation agile, nimble and adaptable to changing at any point in the business or strategic planning cycle. Because readiness involves change agents assessing their situation, convincing people to change attitudes, beliefs and intentions, planning, implementing and evaluating against measures and benefits, different techniques can be applied […]
Effecting sustainable change: A practitioner’s view
Expert tips on how to prepare for and manage change pragmatically. How can preparing for change become a more productive, performance-enhancing experience, one that delivers sustainable improvements with minimal disruption to business as usual?In a less stable world where change is now constant, the best organisations understand how the world is changing and that they […]
Off the record: Striking a deal with an unwanted employee … continued
‘Without prejudice’ is a much abused term. Discussions and documents which have been labelled ‘without prejudice’ usually cannot be shown to a court or employment tribunal as long as the label has been applied appropriately. It can be used only where there is a dispute and the conversation is designed to promote settlement of that […]
Off the record: Striking a deal with an unwanted employee
In the second of our new series, cutting the jargon and getting to the heart of employment law, Daniel Isaac, principal in the employment team at City law firm Withers explains how to manoeuvre an unwanted employee towards an affordable deal. Most employers prefer to strike a deal with an unwanted employee than go through […]
HR Tip: Grievance procedure
These questions are being answered by Learn HR, a market leader in the provision of HR and payroll training and nationally-recognised professional qualifications. Q: We do not have a written grievance procedure. We deal with issues as fairly as possible. Do you see any problems? A: Indeed I do because you are failing to comply with […]
Q&A: Dr Paul Kanas, Head of OH at Cadbury Trebor Bassett
Completing our focus on health benefits is Dr Paul Kanas who reveals the intricacies of the wellbeing schemes in place and the savings that can be made by knocking just 1% off sickness absence. Q1 HR Zone: What does your role as head of OH at Cadbury’s involve?Kanas: I look after the health of our […]
Horses for courses: Using multi-funding solutions … continued
Companies that have replaced car-or-cash policies with multi-funded schemes have certainly found this to be the case. One of our customers with 1,200 business drivers, half of whom had switched to cash in recent years, saw orders for business cars rise threefold in 2005 under its new broad-based, integrated funding strategy, which aligns car benefits […]
Q&A: Dr Paul Kanas, Head of OH at Cadbury Trebor Bassett … continued
Q4 HR Zone: What’s your key policy? Do you simply focus on the absent minority or the majority of well employees?Kanas: The Fit for Life programme is aimed at everyone. In terms of encouraging absent workers to get back to work we offer private health insurance at some of our sites which is fully funded […]
Life Coach at Large: Finding courage … continued
It’s totally understandable. So why the fear? Is it the concern that she’ll lose her job? Lose her meeting? Lose face with others? So what she does instead is try and control a situation by using mental energy, time and costly man hours to justify a point which comes down to, it works well for […]
Life Coach at Large: Finding courage
This week, Emma Ranson Bellamy helps a team leader confront her MD about some ‘real’ issues. The Japanese word Karoushi, was coined to mean ‘sudden death at work’; as an incredibly successful nation it is incredulous that their work/life balance has tipped the scales so far towards the work ethic that they’ve had to add […]
Horses for courses: Using multi-funding solutions
New ‘integrated funding’ products allow employers to get much more from their car schemes without major implications for costs or administration, argues Richard Schooling, commercial director of car scheme provider Alphabet. Over the years, successive funding products have been held up as the ideal way to deliver car benefit solutions.Contract hire, PCPs, ECO schemes and […]
Mind the gap: The rise of the HR interim
The requirement to rapidly solve HR problems, plug gaps or react overnight to changing demands is placing an increasing strain on businesses of all sectors and with a war for talent raging across UK plc the need for professional HR interim management has never been more heartily felt. In the five years since Digby Morgan, […]
News in Brief: The Week in HR – HR ‘worst’ of all functions
Catch up on the week in HR including why CEO’s are turned off by HR, HR’s failure to keep pace in the war for talent, three quarters of HR professionals admit to age discrimination, lack of people skills let line managers down and pay deals sink to new low. W/C 27/2/06HR comes ‘bottom’ in popular […]
Editor’s Comment: Have graduates lost the ‘X’ factor?
Nargis Ara, a PhD student with an Honours Degree in Pharmacy was the latest candidate to be sent packing from business game show The Apprentice in which fourteen hopefuls fight it out to become the six-figure protégé of AMSTRAD chief Sir Alan Sugar; Editor’s Comment looks at the plight of the graduate and wonders why […]
The Couch?! Says: Size matters
If you’re going to make it in HR, size matters. Seeking that promotion in a box of chocolate éclairs, however, is not going to cut it, this is not a license to eat your way up the career ladder – it’s your office place, not your waistline, that shows success.According to recruitment consultancy Office Angels, […]
How to: Give presentations that move people to action
Tips on how to craft the perfect delivery, engage the audience and structure the right content. You have spent some time building your important presentation to the point of perfection. Your structure and flow look really good and the technical content is accurate and to the point. Your messages are clear and important. You have […]
Colborn’s Corner: Just administrators?
’What’s the point of HR’, the latest article in this series stirred up quite a hornet’s nest of views; this week Quentin returns to the topic and looks as the assertion made by some that HR are just a bunch of administrators. It was interesting to counter balance a few views and thoughts from the […]
What’s the answer? Should a grievance be lodged?
An HR Zone member gets legal guidance this week from Stephanie Wootton, employment law expert at Browne Jacobson and Nadia Hoosen Senior Solicitor at Clarkslegal on how to handle a sticky situation fuelled by poor communication. The question:A member of staff has come to me informally with a problem that I am not quite sure […]
HR Zone Briefing #285 – HR’s Working Hours – The Real Story
================================================================ HR Briefing Issue 285 – 2 March 2006 http://www.hrzone.co.uk ================================================================ Editor’s Note ============= We sent our roving reporter, Sarah Fletcher out onto the HR streets last week to find out the real story behind working hours. Don’t miss her exclusive article, reporting on what hours HR workers really do: http://www.hrzone.co.uk/item/151402 And there’s plenty more […]
Insight: ‘Tick the box’ communication
Colette Dorward, founding partner at Smythe Dorward Lambert, explains why ‘tick-the-box’ style, internal communications fails to address employee needs. She acknowledges that communication is often best measured by results rather than process. In some organisations there is still a ‘tick-the-box’ style of internal communications. It is typically felt when a new leadership is put in […]
