By Joy Persaud - hrmagazine.co.uk HR should play a pivotal role in business strategy, particularly in organisations that consider their people a key asset. But the way to the CEO’s heart involves engaging with other business functions, talking their language and overcoming some intrinsic barriers. Does any...
By Tom Newcombe - hrmagazine.co.uk Employers who use incentive and reward schemes are failing to measure their impact or align them to business objectives, according to research published today by benefits provider Edenred. The report, Getting more from employee reward and incentives, found although 49% of employers...
By Georgina Fuller - hrmagazine.co.uk So many people want to work remotely, yet so few employers allow them to. We ask why this remains the case, and weigh up the pros and cons of the practice for staff and company alike. Internet company Yahoo should be the...
By Jane Farrell - guardian.co.uk Global talent spotters have their eye on graduates from top universities, especially women. Photograph: Andrew Fox/Alamy Let's be clear: in 2013, imbalances of all kinds are still prevalent in the office and the boardroom. Broadening the talent pool or diversifying senior management...
Jan Hills looks at how the most persuasive HR functions get their own way By Jan Hills - cipd.co.uk A recent article prompted me to revisit two pieces of research I did on successful HR leaders and HR business partners. I wanted to see what they revealed about...
By Sylvia Vorhauser-Smith - forbes.com Nine years after the launch of Facebook FB +29.59% and 16 years after the first widely available mobile phone, the growth in social and mobile is staggering: some 55% of the world’s cell phone owners say their main source of internet...
By Sarah Platts - freshnetworks.com Having previously written about innovation and leadership following Open University Business School events, I went to another one recently on the topic of change management. According to research, over half of change efforts fail (52%) – but what’s the main cause of failure? According to Professor...
By Jack Zenger - forbes.com Every leader I know is extremely busy getting their job done. At the same time, they also realize that investing effort in their own leadership development is good. The problem is that when faced with a choice, work seems to always...
By THE HR SPECIALIST - businessmanagementdaily.com Here’s the perception: HR professionals are often too busy and lack the business savvy to effectively self-promote their successes to bosses. But HR people who advance to executive levels know their value, and they make time to communicate it. The key,...
By Graham Scrivener - hrmagazine.co.uk As many HR professionals are aware, behaviour change is key to knowing if leadership training and development has been effective. But it's being able to demonstrate and sustain change as well as show that behaviours are having a positive impact on...