By Kevin Dwyer - 4hoteliers.com Employee retention has been a hot topic in human resource management channels of communication for the past ten years or so. Much has been written in those ten years about strategies for increasing employee retention. Typical advice, based on research, is to...
By Tom Newcombe - hrmagazine.co.uk A rigid attachment to ‘best practice’, rather than a focus on business needs, is preventing many organisations from unearthing and nurturing staff to drive their business forward, according to KPMG. KPMG's lead for talent Anna Marie Detert's white paper, Tune in to...
By Ray Wilkinson - personneltoday.com Successful benchmarking requires organisations to identify clearly what performance they want to improve, understand it fully and then select, adapt and implement the most appropriate best practice available, according to Ray Wilkinson, director of the Best Practice Club. None of this is...
By Peter Crush - hrmagazine.co.uk In the second of our five-day Engagement Special, we catch up with founder of jewellery company Holts Group and founder of the not-for-profit social enterprise Holt's Academy of Jewellery, Jason Holt (pictured). What does engagement mean to you? If I'm honest, it's only...
By Dave Crisp - hrreporter.com The last month saw two major operators in the United States with significant work at home arrangements — Yahoo and Best Buy — end them suddenly. Both are relatively newly hired turn-around CEOs who seem to have concluded it hurts performance or...
By Neil Hodge - hrmagazine.co.uk Good manners, a very polite person once said, cost nothing. And as the UK continues to tiptoe precariously between growth and recession, it’s a truth that many organisations should be bearing in mind, coming up with innovative ways to say ‘thank...
By Dan Emerson - finance-commerce.com For small businesses, one of the major challenges of rapid growth is properly managing and serving the needs of a growing workforce. Depending on their stage of growth and other factors, small companies have several options for human resources management expertise, ranging from...
By Kim Seeling Smith - Ignite-Global.com You’ve selected a team based on their technical abilities and individual strengths. Somehow this group of people with different talents and ways of working need to be focussed on the same project and in the same direction. Most importantly, they need...
By Kim Seeling Smith - Ignite-Global.com Meetings are a necessary part of work life. Yet they are over used and ineffective in many organisations. A 2011 study of over 800 IT workers conducted by Cisco Systems International found that nine out of ten workers would prefer...
By Katie Jacobs - hrmagazine.co.uk Has HR been neglecting the ‘small stuff’ in its quest to take a more strategic seat at the conference table? That’s the view of the majority of line managers, according to the findings of Roffey Park Institute’s Management Agenda Report 2013,...