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 Katie Jacobs - hrmagazine.co.uk What will it take to restore the public’s confidence in the financial sector? HR directors have their work cut out to change what’s rotten at the heart of banking culture. Manhattan: a young investment banker spends his days making millions on Wall...
By Tina Smagala A recent study by the Institute for Corporate Productivity found that 85 percent of high-performing organizations use a “competency model” as the foundation for their leadership development strategy. Competencies are skills or abilities, such as decision making, driving results, managing change, developing others, customer...
By Claudine Kapel - hrreporter.com A lot of organizations are down on performance management – with some questioning the value of the process overall. A key mistake some organizations make is to consider performance management a generic process that unfolds in a cookie-cutter manner. That could lead...
By Quentin Millington - hrmagazine.co.uk In this first of four articles on culture within organisations, I explore the three layers of culture and the difficulty of leading change. As the world struggles to free itself from the beleaguered global economy, 'culture change' has become a watchword of...
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,...
By Jo Faragher - personneltoday.com It has brought Elvis and Sinatra back to life, but can holographic video work for internal communications and training? When the late rapper Tupac Shakur "performed" at last year's Coachella music festival in the US, the audience could barely contain its disbelief. Of course,...