By Jocelyn Davis - boston.com Business leaders looking for meaningful growth are all about investing in their people to cultivate an engaged workforce, and ultimately, achieve higher sales and a stronger bottom line. Here are seven trends we’re watching: 1. Uncertainty is the new normal. Organizations are...
By Tom Newcombe - hrmagazine.co.uk The first major survey of British business following prime minister David Cameron's policy speech on Europe in January 2013 has revealed broad support for the re-negotiation of Britain’s relationship with the European Union. The British Chambers of Commerce's (BCC) EU Business Barometer,...
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...
From bride kidnapping expert and penguinologist to innovation consigliere, Emma Sinclair is bemused at the extent of confusing job titles these days. Currently a CEO, she'd rather be a rock star ballerina mermaid. By Emma Sinclair - telegraph.co.uk "What do you do?" is pretty much the...
By Scott Steinberg - business2community.com Businesses juggling change management efforts and strategic initiatives as they work to adapt or reposition their organization to cost-efficiently and effectively operate in the new market reality often face a number of challenges from a corporate leadership standpoint. As even the...
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 Andrew McAfee - hbr.org I completely support the right of companies to stop paying people they don't need any more, but the latest round of recent and planned layoffs from United Technologies is troubling me. Because UTC is doing great; its stock is at an...
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...