By Diane Coolican - recruiter.co.uk The first six months of a new senior appointment are crucial to the success of the manager and the wider business. Senior appointees are required to make an impact and deliver results while still learning the culture and process of the...
By Margaret Ryan - bbc.co.uk Yahoo has banned its staff from "remote" working. After years of many predicting working from home as the future for everybody, why is it not the norm? When a memo from human resources dropped into the inbox of Yahoo staff banning them...
By Mark Hannum - mylinkage.com Systems thinking has taught me that not all communication is good or productive and that who you talk to is just as important as what you say. In some ways, my father’s advice of “just go have a conversation” sums it...
By Quentin Millington - hrmagazine.co.uk In this last article of the series, I consider the demands placed on individual executives mandated to build high-performance cultures. Corporate culture, the patterns of tacit assumptions that emerge as groups in an organisation solve shared problems, is highly stable. Tough to...
By Howard J. Ross - mylinkage.com Where diversity is concerned, unconscious bias can create irrational circumstances where people make choices that seem to be driven by overt prejudice, even when they are not. Of course, there are still some cases where people are consciously hateful, hurtful, and...
By Sam Burne James - recruiter.co.uk Austerity has forced HR to be more commercially minded and technology has contributed to making this happen — a virtuous circle is in place Recruitment agencies report steady but far from overwhelming demand across the HR market as a whole, with...
By David Roe - cmswire.com It seems hard to believe that anything to do with data, content management and business performance management could be 20-years-old. But it is. To mark the 20th anniversary of the Balanced Scorecard, the Advanced Performance Institute and Actuate carried out a...
By N. Dayasindhu - thehindubusinessline.com Focussing solely on cost-cutting may not get you through a recession. Evolving to meet the needs of changing times and pursuing learning opportunities are the key to success. In Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, authors Jim Collins and Jerry...
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...