By Chris Welford - hrmagazine.co.uk There’s a theory that we have four basic emotions: fear, anger, sadness and joy, the primary colours of emotional life. Putting joy aside as self-evidently a good thing, it’s hard to believe that anyone would deliberately try to invoke sadness or...
By Fiona Smith - brw.com.au If your boss calls you into a meeting to talk about the need to improve your performance, are you being bullied, or are you being coached? Increasingly, employees are deciding that their manager is a bully and they are laying complaints or...
By Sharon Daniels - astd.org Specifically, cross-generational mentoring is a key strategy. With four generations, an influx of new employees, and more experienced professionals working longer hours, a greater variety of skills, talent, and experiences are represented in today's workforce than ever before. And as the...
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has issued a report in to the ‘Reporting of pay and performance’ - view the report here. The second such report requested by government into remuneration, it examined how directors’ pay varies with performance, and compared it with CEO pay based on company...
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...
By Kim Seeling Smith - Ignite-Global.com You’ve selected a team based on their technical abilities and individual strengths. Somehow this group of people with different talents and ways of working need to be focussed on the same project and in the same direction. Most importantly, they need...
By Katie Jacobs - hrmagazine.co.uk What will it take to restore the public’s confidence in the financial sector? HR directors have their work cut out to change what’s rotten at the heart of banking culture. Manhattan: a young investment banker spends his days making millions on Wall...
By Tina Smagala A recent study by the Institute for Corporate Productivity found that 85 percent of high-performing organizations use a “competency model” as the foundation for their leadership development strategy. Competencies are skills or abilities, such as decision making, driving results, managing change, developing others, customer...
By Claudine Kapel - hrreporter.com A lot of organizations are down on performance management – with some questioning the value of the process overall. A key mistake some organizations make is to consider performance management a generic process that unfolds in a cookie-cutter manner. That could lead...