HR Tip: Revealing employee information
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: A debt collection agency has asked for the whereabouts of one of our employees whom we know is notorious for owing money. Where do we stand? A: Whatever your feelings, you must not […]
Feature: The unwritten rules of business extravagance
Where is the dividing line between corporate generosity and unrestrained greed drawn? Criminal defence solicitor Martin Cunningham, a fraud expert, reaches for a blunt pencil. Reports that media tycoon Lord Black spent almost $50,000 of his company’s money on a his wife’s birthday party – and that he and his fellow directors siphoned off tens […]
HR Zone Briefing #206 – Softworld HR & Payroll 2004
================================================================ HR Briefing Issue 206 16 September 2004 http://www.hrzone.co.uk ================================================================ SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** 1. Intellect to showcase products at Softworld 2. Topaz to unveil new products at Softworld 3. Softworld announces speakers 4. HR Tip: Revealing employee information 5. Any Answers – recruitment policy, childcare vouchers SITE HIGHLIGHTS **** […]
Feature: RNID guidelines for DDA compliance
RNID, a charity representing nine million deaf and hard of hearing in the UK offers its guidelines to help businesses ‘take reasonable steps’ to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) regulations. The deadline for organisations to be compliant with the DDA is upon us. Many organisations remain in the dark about their obligations under […]
New President for Management Institute
Sir Paul Judge, who led the buyout of Premier Brands, is the new president of the Chartered Management Institute.Sir Paul succeeds Gordon Page to become the organisation’s 29th President since it was founded as the British Institute of Management in 1947. Sir Paul’s previous roles include director of Cadbury Schweppes, chairman of Premier Brands, chairman […]
Unemployment at 20 Year Low
Unemployment figures fell by 16,000 between May and July to 1.41 million – the lowest figure in 20 years. The number of people claiming unemployment benefit last month has also fallen, by 6,100 to a 30-year low of 830,200, according to the Office for National Statistics. However, the leap in employment rates was not reflected […]
Women HR Managers Slip Down Earnings Table
Female managers working within the HR sector have dropped down the earnings league table, according to the 30th annual National Management Survey.With an average pay rise of less than 1%, female managers in HR earn an average of £41,045, putting them in sixth place in the female managers’ table compared to second in 2003.Over-all the […]
Case Study: Developing Facilitative Leaders
Leadership thinking has moved beyond the old command and control style to emphasising managers as “facilitators”, developing, guiding and bringing the best out of their staff. Bedfordshire Pilgrims Housing Association, which manages over 10,000 homes in and around Bedfordshire, recently put its 56 managers through a facilitative leadership course and the benefits, it says have […]
The New HR Charter: Part 9 – Unions have no part to play
As someone who cut his HR teeth in the industrial relations arena of the late 1970’s I do not need reminding of how bad industrial relations can get and the damage they inflict on organisations. It is with complete horror, therefore that I see the terrible IR situation not just on the old battlegrounds of […]
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 […]
