By Kim Seeling Smith - KimSeelingSmith.com Many companies are starting to embrace the concept of onboarding a new employee. And why wouldn’t they? You’ve probably read the statistics: According to the Wynhurst Group, 22% of staff turnover occurs within the first 45 days of employment. They also...
The National Workplace Program (NWP) is an awareness, early intervention and prevention program, specifically for workplace settings, which aims to increase the knowledge and skills of staff and managers to address mental health problems in the workplace.The NWP utilises an evidence-based approach and focuses on: how...
By Rob Gray, - hrmagazine.co.uk HR directors can become obsessed with retaining their best talent at all costs. Yet if employers have few qualms about proclaiming the end of the job-for-life culture, they should not be surprised if many of their best employees always have one eye...
by Patricia Nazemetz and Will Ruch - hbr.org The HR discipline is evolving into a strategic voice because its sphere of influence — talent attraction, engagement and retention — is now recognized as the foundation to organizational success. But the pervasive influence of social media on...
Outmoded management practices are resulting in disengaged workers. Kim Seeling Smith outlines how to create a viable 21st century. Viva La Revolution! The war for talent is over and talent has won. The companies that don’t recognize this and significiantly change the structures and...
By Andrew Mayo - personneltoday.com The desire to be "strategic" has engulfed many HR departments. Usually what they mean by this is the deployment of their professional knowledge and skills, working with managers, to do things that will improve the organisation in some way. Personally, I...
By Joanne Sammer - businessfinancemag.com Companies that want to increase revenue growth and profit margins should start looking in a new area—human resources. A new study indicates that companies with strong core HR practices have revenue growth that is up to 3.5 times higher than that of...
By Lisa Quast - forbes.com Managers are bombarded with an almost constant stream of data every day. According to David Derbyshire, “Scientists have worked out exactly how much data is sent to a typical person in the course of a year – the equivalent of every...
By Peter Shreeve - hrmagazine.co.uk It’s 2022. As the HR director of a large corporate you are writing your HR strategy for the next year and you begin by reflecting on the last 10-15 years of change. Since the economic crisis of 2008 demand for goods and...
By David Woods - hrmagazine.co.uk Another day, another taxi, another HR exhibition – and all the paraphernalia that goes with it. As an HR professional, it wouldn’t be unheard of to make a career out of attending exhibitions, meeting suppliers and taking away their pens, mouse...