FROM a business standpoint, strategic Human Resources (HR) is how a business makes integrated and coordinated choices about talent, leadership and organisational culture to deliver unique value to customers and other key external constituencies such as investors and regulators. Column by Brett Chulu - theindependent.co.zw Recent research...
By Joan Pettingill - hrmagazine.co.uk A Government report criticising ‘systematic blacklisting’ in the construction sector is likely to exacerbate concerns among HR professionals about how to uphold best practice in employee recruitment and management. The interim report from the Scottish Affairs Select Committee strongly criticises 43 construction companies for...
By Rob Gray - hrmagazine.co.uk In November last year, 40 prominent business leaders from organisations as diverse as Sainsbury’s, the NHS and BAE Systems signed an open letter to the Times. If that weren't unusual in itself, the subject matter was. The writers stressed the importance of...
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...