Opinion: Cultural fitness and commercial health
Norrie Johnston, Managing Director of Executives Online, explores whether in the bid to find candidates who ‘fit’, companies are making themselves unhealthy. HR Managers have to perform a difficult balancing act between employing people who will fit into their company culture but who will also bring fresh and innovative ideas. Yet it seems many do […]
Reviewer profile: Sharon Cooper
Sharon CooperSharon Cooper is Director of Human Resources EMEA for IPC Information Systems, a leading provider of mission-critical communications solutions to the world’s largest financial services firms, as well as to public safety, government, power, energy, utility and transportation organisations. Sharon served as an Army Officer for over nine years, leaving in the rank of […]
Book review: 24 carrot manager
The 24-Carrot ManagerTitle: The 24-Carrot ManagerAuthors: Adrian Gostick and Chester EltonPublisher: John Wiley & SonsISBN: 0-470-82163-9Price: £9.79 (paperback)Reviewer: Sharon Cooper This book is subtitled “A remarkable story of how a leader can unleash human potential.” As the word carrot in the title might indicate, it deals with employee motivation and recognition. It is a very […]
Proper hours? HR professionals discuss unpaid overtime. By Sarah Fletcher
Sarah Fletcher asked senior HR professionals their views on the TUC’s recent research claiming that five million workers in the UK work unpaid and uncompensated overtime. The TUC encouraged employees to challenge the UK’s “long hours” culture by working only their contractually designated hours on Friday 24 Feb as part of their “Work Your Proper […]
HR Tip: Value of informal 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. Q: How useful are informal warnings? A: Incredibly useful! An informal warning is more than a word in the ear, but is not a formal warning that has to be given following a […]
Corporate manslaughter: Implications for HR managers
Briefing notes for HR professionals looking to keep on the right side of the law. The Government is currently considering responses to the consultation document it published earlier this year on a draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill. At this stage, it is not clear when the Bill will become law. However, it is likely that there […]
HR Zone Members Newswire #139 The Value of Networking the CIPD Way
================================================================ HR Zone Members Newswire Issue 139 28 February 2006 www.hrzone.co.uk ================================================================ Editor’s note ============= Like a proud peacock – that’s how Juliet LeFevre describes the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in its networking capacity. “Externally it’s mostly a badge. It seems to like to puff itself up and look after its own. I […]
Top fleet management tips from Fleet News
John Maslen, Supplement and Events Editor for Fleet News, a magazine targeted at fleet decision-makers within the UK presents his top tips for managing a fleet, successfully. The job title of fleet manager is increasingly rare in British business. Instead responsibility is hidden in a wealth of other roles, ranging from HR manager to financial […]
The real issue: Management inability to handle performance
<img src="/files/siftmedia-photolib/photo_joe.jpg" Joe Espana, MD of Performance Equations presents his beliefs on why management inability to handle performance is the real performance issue. The problem with the vast majority of performance management systems is the lack of real leadership capability; the ability and tendency of many managers to relinquish responsibility and hide behind the ‘system’ […]
How Did I Get Here? Rachel Court, General Manager (HR), Yorkshire Building Society
Rachel Court explains her hand in smoothing the transition from an ‘ancillary support’ HR function to one that sits at the heart of the business. 1. How strategic is your current role and what does it involve?I’m General Manager (Human Resources) with specific responsibility for Yorkshire Building Society’s overall people strategy as well as having […]
News in Brief: The Week in HR – CIPD expose working time myths
Catch up on the week in HR including why three quarters of workers are uninspired, employers are too aloof, jobless count rise fails to shake nerves and weak management blamed for poor productivity. W/C 20/2/06 CIPD expose working time mythsResponding to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Work Your Proper Hours Day is the Chartered Institute […]
The Couch?! Hears your working hours horror stories
The TUC stages its Work Your Proper Hours event today, 24 Feb in response to findings that five million UK employees work unpaid overtime and to mark the occasion we asked our members for their horror stories, including extra hours, exploitation and prison cells. Here are some to make us glad we work in the […]
Reviewer profile: Jonathan Senior
Jonathan SeniorLooking down the barrel of another 30 years working for the council, Jonathan had the presence of mind in 2001 to leave and start working for himself – no small undertaking with a mortgage and two small children.Describing the experience as “very scary but very rewarding” he hasn’t looked back since and indeed wishes […]
Book Review: Training International Managers
Title: Training International ManagersEditor: Alan Melkman and John TrotmanPublisher: GowerISBN: 0566086301Price: £55.00Reviewer: Jonathan SeniorThe notion that the world is getting smaller – always using fast web connections, different technologies being flung together and today’s novelty being tomorrow’s standard – is the background to this useful book by obvious heavyweight consultants, Melkman and Trotman.The book starts […]
The Top Pitfalls of 360 Reviews
Used well, a 360° review can be a useful development tool, but the wrong model could have a negative impact and drive poor performance. Claudine McClean, of Predaptive OD, offers some advice on how to make sure you implement a model that works for your organisation. Feedback using the 360° model has been made accessible […]
What’s the answer? Does their previous employment count?
Jane Dines gets legal guidance this week from Helen Badger, employment law expert at Browne Jacobson and Chris Syder, Partner & Head of Employment at the London office of Clarkslegal LLP on how to interpret ‘continuous’ employment. The question:We had to lay off several members of staff just before Christmas due to a downturn in […]
HR Zone talks to: Pavel Belenko about HR life in Russia
Pavel Belenko talks to HR Zone about the ups and downs of life in HR in his country including revelations regarding the average Russian HR salary and the popularity of HR as a career choice. HR Zone Q1: What is your current involvement in HR?Pavel Belenko: I am a senior partner of the IMICOR company […]
What happened next? Getting management buy-in. By Sarah Fletcher
Trying to persuade senior management that you need more training resources can be difficult; in a new series looking at What happened next, TrainingZONE member Jo Milton reveals how to solve the issue. By Sarah Fletcher Isolation can be lonely“I manage a training department for a busy call centre. New starter training takes about four […]
Dealing in diversity: The early years. By Sarah Fletcher
Satya Kartara has led some of the most challenging change programmes in the UK in her roles as Director of Diversity and Inclusion at Royal Mail, Head of Change at BHS and Head of Diversity at Ford; in this first of a series of monthly columns, Kartara explains why she first became interested in diversity […]
Advertorial: Take a fresh look at the people who matter most
Why 37,000 businesses have taken the Investors in People plunge. In a competitive world, it pays to make sure you have the edge over your competitors – because if it’s the other way round, you risk losing your customers.No business can afford to miss the chance of making themselves more effective. Now there’s a new […]
