Intellect to showcase products at Softworld
Intellect will exhibit its complete product portfolio at the Softworld show taking place at the NEC, Birmingham on 20-21 October.Two years’ R&D development is behind the latest Intellect product upgrades. The company has dedicated ten years to refining its HR and payroll solutions. Intellect has taken a ‘something-for-everyone’ approach with a three-pronged offering:• Workforce modules: […]
Training Investment Rises by 50%
Business investment in training and staff development is up by more than half, according to the CBIAccording to the latest CBI’s Employment Trends 2004 survey, 57% of employers increased the amount of job-specific training offered to their staff during the past year and 51% had increased their expenditure on training, with only 7% reducing spending.The […]
Employment law quiz
By Nichola Upperton-Evans Given that most of the UK’s adult population are either employers or employees you would be forgiven for thinking that everyone would have a basic understanding of employment law. But how many people have a real grasp of the rules that govern working relationships? Fewer than you might think, warns employment law […]
Evaluation – Any Time, Any Place, Any Where
Michael Brannick, president of Thomson Prometric, explores how the latest online assessments can help companies hone training strategy and employee development. Assessment of learning is a regular occurrence in the education world where results of exams such as GCSEs are used to determine the effectiveness of a school’s syllabus, the efficiency of the teachers in […]
Feature: Implementing an email policy
The use and abuse of email by employees is a concern for all responsible HR departments – for legal, moral and commercial reasons. Geoff Webster, CEO at FAST Corporate services, looks at the legislation affecting monitoring and how to implement an email usage policy. The extent to which emails should be monitored is difficult for […]
Management Training to Drive Improvement
Motor dealers have been test-driving a new professional management qualification specifically for their industry, as part of a campaign to improve standards in the sector. The Certificate and Diploma in Automotive Retail Management is part of a campaign launched by the motor industry’s sector skills council, Automotive Skills, to create excellence in management and leadership […]
HR Zone gets incentivised
HR Zone looks at the strangest incentives offered to employees. Are we a nation obsessed with freebies? Our theme for this article was inspired by a national survey that looked at how us brits are mad for anything we can get our hands on for free.The crucial research emerged from the National Incentive Survey to […]
The Way I See It… Management Development is a Business Priority
Emma Bell a partner at MacRoberts Solicitors believes that developing the people skills of managers is the key to unlocking a business’s full potential. A company’s manager is potentially its most valuable asset, yet all too often businesses promote individuals into a management role with no effective training or support.The inevitable result is less than […]
Case Study: Bayer Pharmaceuticals’ Development Centres
Development centres are well established as a method of measuring the capability levels of individuals and spotting potential for the future. Trained observers gather data on performance and collate reports, which highlight a person’s strengths and development needs. This provides participants and managers alike with high quality feedback, which they can use to maximise the […]
Feature: Flexible working in the caring industry
Obtaining a work-life balance for professionals in the caring industry can be a difficult task to achieve; in this feature HRZone looks at the family-friendly approaches adopted by a health insurer to help its employees manage their home and work responsibilities more effectively. Imagine an advertisement that runs like this:Help wanted: Hours of work: Between […]
Topaz to unveil new products at Softworld
The latest Topaz Financials package and Topaz EMS, the integrated Payroll and HR solution are to be launched at Softworld Accounting and Finance at the NEC, Birmingham on 20-21 October.Topaz Financials includes sales, purchase and nominal ledgers, cashbook and fixed assets, specialising in key areas including credit control, commitment and project accounting. A new data […]
Feature: Changing attitudes towards work
By Sophie Dawson and David Tong, Mercer Human Resource Consulting Flexible working and promoting a healthy work-life balance are issues that have found themselves perpetually on the HR agenda. A vast amount of research has been published in this area, best practice manuals have been written, and politicians, academics and business leaders alike espouse the […]
Feature: When employee benefits affect your business
By Tim Bradley, managing director, Pecaso UK Work/life balance is one of the hot topics of the moment, with reports appearing left, right and centre of Britons’ lack of ‘R’ and ‘R’. Employers have reacted to this with a range of benefits, from duvet-days to flexi-time. However, whilst employees may well have gotten used to […]
Online Disability Act Guide
The British Retail Consortium and the Disability Rights Commission have launched a guide to help retailers comply with part III of the Disability Discrimination Act. Part III of the Act, which coming into force on 1 October 2004, means that anyone providing goods or services has to make reasonable adjustments to their premises or the […]
HR Tip: Wage deductions for parking fines
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 have just paid the parking fine of a company car driver and now wish to deduct it from his wages. Can we? A: You may do this only if you have written […]
Welcome to The Leadership Economy
“The knowledge economy has not served us well, and not delivered real, sustainable value for our stakeholders, our companies, and our world,” David Taylor, author of the best selling book The Naked Leader, invites you to move into the next business age… Over the last 20 years we have spent billions of global currencies on […]
Meet the Revenue and learn about PAYE e-filing
The Inland Revenue may be losing marketing and communications director Ian Schoolar, but his legacy lives on in “meet the customer” briefings at Softworld to explain how to file PAYE returns online.At Softworld HR & Payroll, running alongside the Accounting & Finance event at Birmingham’s NEC on 20 October, Revenue business adviser Marie Gibbs will […]
IT Recruitment Set to Double
Demand for IT skills is riding high with more than half of IT managers expecting to recruit this year.In a survey of 500 IT professionals, 56% of managers said they expected to take on more staff in 2004 – double last year’s figure of 28%.Further signs of buoyancy were shown in the large number of […]
Case study: campaign for learning
With over seven million adults in the UK identified as having poor literacy and numeracy levels, promoting the benefits of life long learning has never been so important. The charity ‘Campaign for Learning’ is dedicated to doing just that. Originally launched in 1997, it aims to stimulate learning that will sustain people for life. Campaign […]
The Way I See It… In Praise of Praise
Michael Massey of EQLS is in favour of that old-fashioned motivator – telling people they have done a good job. Praise is a great motivator. Like small children we blossom and grow when we are praised or given encouragement. Praise punctures self-doubt and releases enthusiasm. If there is no praise or recognition there is no […]
