Helping employees deal with grief in the workplace

The loss of a colleague is hard for the whole team, but when handled sensitively it can help to bring people together. Often we view our workplace as a safe place, somewhere we can leave our personal lives at the door as we get caught up in the hustle and bustle of the working day. […]

Recruit smart: how employee advocacy can attract talent

Talent acquisition is significantly more effective when you engage your employees in advocating for your brand. Employee advocacy is increasingly being adopted by leading brands to meet the growing recruitment challenge in the UK. With concerns over ‘Brexodus’ (the departure of European workers after Brexit), an ageing population and unemployment at a 40-year low, it […]

The Brexit White Paper: what does it mean for immigration and employment?

Find out what the Brexit White Paper means for your business and how to prepare your teams for the impending changes.  The highly anticipated and much delayed Brexit White Paper was finally published by the government this July, over two years since the referendum vote. However, in terms of any concrete details on immigration and employment […]

Remote working: why businesses need to work smarter, not harder

Flexible and remote working can hold the key to a happier, more productive workforce, but many employers and employees must first reach an agreement on cultural barriers. The way many of us work has changed considerably in recent years. More flexible ways of working are on the rise, with people shifting where they work and […]

“If financial wellbeing becomes a handcuff, you haven’t solved an engagement problem, you’ve just given it a different shape.”

Employers are becoming increasingly aware of the the impact poor financial health can have on both people and businesses – and of the urgent need to address this pervasive issue. But what does an effective financial wellbeing strategy look like? Paul Bartlett, Independent Reward and Benefits Development Consultant of Hawk Incentives, provides insight on how to […]

HR books for review: what has HRZone got available?

HRZone has a range of books available for review. If you would like to receive one of our business books, free of charge, please contact the editor on editor at hrzone dot com and let us know what you’re interested in. In return, we ask for a 400-700 word review of the book, its content […]

Small company super-glue: how to grow up without growing apart

A micro business doesn’t need to talk about culture to have it perfectly formed. When you are a bunch of folks starting-up, you’ll have found a very natural super-glue. As a business owner scaling up, sticking together is altogether harder. Here is how to navigate from micro-business into fully-fledged SME without losing the magic of […]

Communicating company culture: understanding the role of unique language in business

What language does your company speak? The unique buzzwords and phrases that your employees use could actually be the key to communicating your organisation’s culture to a wider audience. ‘Uniqueness’ is one of the most important pillars of a company’s culture. That could be what makes your brand, your workplace and even your employees unique, […]

Company culture: how to create a more engaged, diverse and better equipped workforce

Millennials and Gen Z in the workplace are sounding the alarm, according to Deloitte’s seventh annual Millennial Survey. Their confidence in businesses’ motivations and ethics, as well as their sense of loyalty to their employers is deteriorating. Furthermore, younger generations are not yet optimistic about their readiness for industry 4.0. It’s clear that something needs […]

Employee engagement: how to achieve a workplace benefits culture to be proud of

If engagement with your employee benefits schemes is low, there are steps you can take to improve this. Here’s a handy guide to transforming your workplace benefits culture.   Workplace benefits are a vital part of your employee engagement strategy, impacting all sorts of areas including the attraction and retention of staff, as well as […]

Recruitment tips: don’t join the war for talent – build your own instead

For too long recruiters have complained of a ‘war for talent’ – but this thinking is wrong. Do your business a favour and look to build an achievement culture instead. You only have to Google ‘companies struggle to find skilled workers‘ to find a string of results showing that an apparent ‘war for talent’ rages […]

Employee engagement: bridging the gap between generation Z and parents in the workplace

The US workforce is on the cusp of a significant transformation, as generation Z, the 61 million Americans born after the mid-1990s, enters the workforce. They’ll be joining a labour market that looks far different from the one their parents and grandparents joined. Technological innovation has disrupted entire industries, fundamentally changing the nature of work, […]

The seven pillars of building a successful company culture

Building an organisational culture is like making a house of cards. It’s both simple and complex. If you have all the elements in place and you reinforce them, nurturing culture is easy. If you don’t, the house collapses into its many parts. So business leaders, ask yourselves: how sturdy is your company’s cultural foundation? I use […]

It’s time to get rid of reverse mentoring

In a culture where continuous, on-the-job learning for all ages is encouraged, the term ‘reverse mentoring’ is archaic and potentially damaging. But why exactly is this the case? A term that was coined by Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric, almost 20 years ago, ‘reverse mentoring’ is still being used in various industries. The concept […]

Engaging employees in the age of social media

Social media is blurring boundaries between the personal and the professional, so how can HR teams manage employee communications in this period of transition? When it comes to communication in today’s world, more is definitely more, with the average UK user scrolling through an impressive 5.149 miles of content every year. In our personal lives, […]

How to use Scientific People Analytics to improve people processes

In the third article of this four-part series, Dr Max Blumberg explores how Scientific People Analytics (SPA) can be used to support human capital decisions made by organisational managers. In Part 2 of this series I showed how the Human Capital Value Profiler can be used to identify a people process requiring improvement in order […]

Why businesses need to rebrand middle management

Here’s the middle management challenge affecting many of today’s organisations: as flatter structures have become more the norm, the all-important middle has become increasingly neglected. Indeed, 38% of UK directors say their organisation is ‘paralysed’ by ineffective middle management and 40% identify it as the single greatest barrier to achieving company objectives. So now is the time to change this. […]

What are the top dos and don’ts when it comes to implementing change in a business?

Change is really hard. There’s no need to make it harder. Find out the top dos and don’ts for implementing change in business effectively. Change usually needs a moment of catastrophe, realisation or inspiration. Avoiding catastrophe, and deliberately creating that moment of realisation or inspiration requires something that goes beyond rational good sense to something […]

How to become an HR trendsetter

If you’re looking to get ahead of the curve in the HR industry, you need to look beyond what’s happening in the HR space itself. If you could forecast an early trend, you could capitalise on it because you’d be one step ahead of everyone else. This isn’t just true for investors in the stock […]

Writing a business case for HR and payroll software investment

Convincing management to invest in new HR and payroll software doesn’t have to be an onerous process. Get your proposal right, and the need will be clear. Once you’ve decided that it’s time for an HR and payroll system upgrade, your next job is to convince your business directors to invest in what they might […]