By Jeff Durr, Senior Managing Consultant, and Craig Kamins, Subject Matter Expert - thegallupblog.gallup.com We, at Gallup, hear all too often from senior leaders who are frustrated with change management initiatives that are failing. Leaders continue to fall short of their goals with change programs, whether...
By Stuart Jones - hrmagazine.co.uk As an HR director, you and your colleagues have a well-defined organisational recruitment strategy in place, which serves to set the tone, the volume and the specifics for new hires. Right? If you nodded a 'yes' to that question, congratulations - you're...
As more employees train outside work, there is the danger that development will get pushed aside By Debbie Andalo - guardian.co.uk The number of employees getting training in work fell over the last year. Photograph: Bloomimage/Getty Images / BloomImage RF On-the-job training and development for people working in...
By Stephan Liozu - innovationexcellence.com Change is hard. Literature on change reports that over 70% of projects fail due to the inability of people and organizations to change. Change is even harder when it is transformational in nature and requires a change in culture and DNA....
By Chris Welford - hrmagazine.co.uk There’s a theory that we have four basic emotions: fear, anger, sadness and joy, the primary colours of emotional life. Putting joy aside as self-evidently a good thing, it’s hard to believe that anyone would deliberately try to invoke sadness or...
By Fiona Smith - brw.com.au If your boss calls you into a meeting to talk about the need to improve your performance, are you being bullied, or are you being coached? Increasingly, employees are deciding that their manager is a bully and they are laying complaints or...
By Sharon Daniels - astd.org Specifically, cross-generational mentoring is a key strategy. With four generations, an influx of new employees, and more experienced professionals working longer hours, a greater variety of skills, talent, and experiences are represented in today's workforce than ever before. And as the...
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has issued a report in to the ‘Reporting of pay and performance’ - view the report here. The second such report requested by government into remuneration, it examined how directors’ pay varies with performance, and compared it with CEO pay based on company...
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...