Review: Managing Talented People
Title:“Managing Talented People”Editor/Author: Alan Robertson and Graham AbbeyPublisher: Pearson Education ISBN: 1843 04024 7Price: £16.99Reviewer: Rob SheffieldI last met Alan Robertson at the end of the 1990’s. I was in the aerospace sector, and he was an independent consultant, helping on a range of our courses. I enjoyed the contact I had with Alan, and […]
News in Brief: The week in HR – 20/05/05
See our at-a-glance round-up of all the latest HR news including employment count high, windfall for Royal Mail and Tesco workers, Sainsbury’s over-50s recruitment campaign, name change disaster at the DTI and ET applications on the slide. Employment count soarsOfficial labour market statistics show continued but steady growth with worker numbers increasing by 183,000 over […]
Editor’s Comment: Innovate or fail?
Darwin was probably right, business is a dog-eat-dog world where survival of the fittest is the name of the game but is the key to success really innovation, after all Royal Mail has just reported bumper profits but what have they done differently?By Annie Hayes, HRZone Editor Postal giant, the Royal Mail reported an annual […]
HR Zone Briefing #246 – HR Diary – Bridget Jones eat your heart out!
================================================================ HR Briefing Issue 246 19 May 2005 http://www.hrzone.co.uk ================================================================ SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** 1. Salary errors – the hidden debt 2. Case Study: Health and Safety training at Scottish Power 3. HR Tip: Behaviour at work functions 4. Case law: Agency worker status 5. Any Answers: unions, HR Director […]
HR Practitioner’s Diary
In the first of her new diary column, Sue Kingston a self-employed HR Consultant with 23 years experience in the HR field tackles TUPE transfers, drink and drugs and lands a new contract while ‘fessing up to her singleton status revealing just how many chocolate bars and glasses of wine she has quaffed – read […]
Colborn’s Corner: Employee engagement – realism or wishful thinking?
Some of my work involves helping organisations understand how their staff feel and think about them – commonly through employee surveys and it is interesting to see what distinguishes an okay place to work from a great place to work. One set of questions frequently used goes along the lines of:Which of these phrases best […]
Salary errors – the hidden debt
Millions of pounds are being lost per year to salary errors, often the time between an employee leaving and the payroll department receiving the information is so wide that one or two months’ salary is paid in error and the bigger the company, the greater the likelihood that the right hand won’t know what the […]
Case Study: Health and Safety training at Scottish Power
Scottish Power is an international energy company providing electricity and/or gas services to around six million homes and businesses in the UK and the western US. Scottish Power has long made use of tutor led training in the classroom alongside generic on-line courses. However, with increasing pressures on staff time, a consequent rise in course […]
HR Zone Members Newswire #99 – Drink and drugs – time for tough talking?
================================================================ HR Zone Members Newswire Issue 99 17 May 2005 http://www.hrzone.co.uk ================================================================ SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** 1. Editor’s Comment: Under control? 2. Feature: Training Evaluation Part 1 – What’s it all about? 3. How Did I Get Here? Paul Dowie, HR Director at ITN 4. Cut and run or stick […]
HR Tip: Behaviour at work functions
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: Our office parties are held in a local hotel where we provide a free bar and supper. Last time some employees got drunk, started a bit of horseplay and smashed some furniture. […]
Case law: Agency worker status
The Court of Appeal’s decision in Postworth (t/a SkyBlue) v. Bunce offers a ray of hope for businesses that use agency workers to maximize flexibility and competitiveness. By Helen Beech, Partner in the Employment team at Clarkslegal LLP There is a general fear among employers that their power to manage the workforce cost effectively and […]
How Did I Get Here? Paul Dowie, HR Director at ITN
Paul Dowie talks exclusively to HRZone about how he made it to the top of the HR tree at news broadcaster, ITN and how scooping the contract to provide the London news for ITV involved the challenge of TUPE transfers. 1. What is your current job title? Briefly describe your current role.I am HR Director […]
Feature: Training Evaluation Part 1 – What’s it all about?
In the first of a short series of articles on evaluation, Martin Schmalenbach looks at the work of Donald Kirkpatrick and others in setting a framework for appraising the effectiveness of training. A lot seems to have been written about evaluating training. This may be in part because there seems to be a fair amount […]
The Couch?! Big brother house
They say variety is the spice of life and it certainly is in the big brother house. The crazy mixture of people from all walks of life makes for an interesting series which is strangely compelling and addictive. So that got us thinking – if you could have anyone in the big brother house who […]
Editor’s Comment: Under control?
In an age of fast, 24-7 living where ‘stress’ is the buzzword of social inclusion it seems inevitable that more and more workers will turn for relief to drink and drugs but should bosses make the quantum leap to lifestyle policing? Last year the government’s Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England put the cost of […]
Review: Strategy
Title: Strategy – A Step-by-Step Approach to the Development and Presentation of World Class Business Strategy Author: Mark DaniellReviewer:Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan Price: £25 ISBN: 1-4039-4288-9Strategy is the first book from a leading strategy consultant that takes the reader through a practical step-by-step approach to the development and presentation of a world-class strategy.Mark Daniell has an impeccable […]
HR Zone Briefing #245 – Equality in danger?
================================================================ HR Briefing Issue 245 12 May 2005 http://www.hrzone.co.uk ================================================================ SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** 1. Payroll Tip: Pay and jury service 2. CSR and beyond: Doing ‘good’ with HR 3. Employee satisfaction v more profit: do you have to choose? 4. Case Study: Tuning into e-learning 5. Any Answers: drugs, […]
How ‘FIT’ is your company?
You have to be relatively fit to run a marathon or compete at a high level in any sport regardless of your skills or capabilities. If not, the chances are you will fail. In business, a similar concept applies. The FITness of an organisation that is its competitiveness or effectiveness is determined by the FITness […]
Cut and run or stick with it?
These days change is a part of our lives whether we want it to be or not. The question we should ask is, is it always for the best, in other words is changing direction always better than sticking with the status quo? HR Consultant Sandra Beale of SJ Beale HR Consult investigates. On one […]
Case Study: Tuning into e-learning
Cable operator ntl required an e-learning solution that was simple to use, complementary to their traditional e-learning and classroom based training and fit with their existing learning management system here’s what they did. ntl is the UK and Ireland’s largest cable operator and a leading provider of broadband and communications services. Today ntl has more […]
