Is the Ostrich Effect impacting your organisation?

Is your organisation suffering from the Ostrich Effect? If so, how can HR help?
Uncomfortable truths about climbing the career ladder as a Black woman

Being Black and being a woman means climbing the corporate career ladder is twice the challenge. HR needs to step up if we ever want to change the status quo.
Editor’s note: HR must embrace fortitude in 2023

As we move into 2023 Becky Norman, Editor of HRZone, outlines why fortitude will be the crucial ingredient to a fulfilling year.
Four ways HR can reinvent work in 2023

British-Hungarian Physicist Dennis Gabor once said “The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.” So how will you invent HR’s future?
How can we create a workplace where ‘masks of tolerance’ do not exist?

Ekua Cant and Dr Shungu Hilda M’gadzah invite HR leaders to reflect on how to embrace leadership and create a truly inclusive working culture.
How to improve cross-cultural communications in the workplace

Read our list of top tips to help you and your employees converse successfully with people from diverse backgrounds.
How to build Bersin’s healthy organisation and nurture a conscious culture

Embracing the new ways of working does not mean organisational success. Instead we could incorporate Josh Bersin’s model and build a ‘conscious culture’
Conditional versus transformative cultures: How to create radically just workplaces in 2023 and beyond

Positive change for business and people leaders means embracing the opportunity to model transformative leadership and create just workplaces
The dangers of manager bullies and how to combat them

In the run-up to Christmas, Jane Gunn explores what to do when the manager is the bully.
What do your employees say about your business when you are not in the room?

What experience are you creating for your employees, so they reflect your brand in the best possible way, wherever they operate from?
2022 in review: HR reflections on a turbulent twelve months

Gethin Nadin reflects on the challenges HR has faced over the last 12 months
A sinking ship: HR’s role when a company goes into administration

When a company goes into administration the impact on HR is huge. People director Kevin Hollingworth reflects on his experience with a sinking ship
Did your 2022 HR predictions come true?

We asked this question to a selection of our top HRZone guest writers. Discover how effective their crystal ball gazing.
Ways to combat the ‘quiet quitting’ revolution

Disgruntled employees are making a stand and it’s HR’s job to find new ways to motivate them.
Twitter: Elon Musk is running an employee value proposition in reverse

If the new owner of the struggling social media company wants his workforce to become more productive, he’ll have to make Twitter an attractive place to be.
Collective problem-solving will help HR endure the cost-of-living crisis

Business psychologist Volker Patent explores how interconnected thinking, unity and creativity are key to pulling through hard times.
Book excerpt: ‘Irresistible’ by Josh Bersin

Bersin reveals the seven secrets behind the world’s most enduring, employee-focused organisations in his compelling new book – out now.
Black History Month 2022 – “Time for change: Action not words”

In celebration of Black History Month, Kayleigh Graham explores what this time means to her and the steps individuals can take to initiate change.
Six ways to spot and stop potential bullying behaviour

Is it possible that you are a bully at work? Here are ways to recognise the bullying traits and curb this toxic behaviour.
All in the mind(set): Eight essential steps to a permanent culture shift

A positive, enthusiastic mindset and a focus on values are essential in creating a collaborative, caring culture.