The top 4 workforce management pitfalls and how to avoid them
In any industry, managing a workforce effectively can be challenging, especially without the right processes and structures in place.
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Richard Hilsley: ‘How Agile prospers under TEAL management structures
“TEAL posits that organisations should prioritise self-organisation and self-management.”
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Mental health emerges as UK’s main workplace risk
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses to address mental health, but how will they go about this?
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Over four in five employees feel colleagues are not heard equally at work
One in three (34 per cent) of employees confessed they would rather quit or switch teams than voice their true concerns with management.
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Only 1.5% of senior roles held by black people
Public sector only has 1 per cent of black employees in senior roles.
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Nimesh Shah: The HR secrets to getting your employees out of a March slump
“HR departments need to work in synch with their leadership team.”
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UK SME owners consider their own management team a barrier to growth
More than 35 per cent of business owners in the UK fear that their management team will cause them to hit a growth ceiling.
Read MoreEmployee engagement tops business leaders’ challenges, according to global survey
Study involving over 1200 senior directors and executives reveals the challenges facing top management
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Watchdog rule hits 72k City managers
The number of senior managers in financial services firms could be held personally responsible for mis-conduct has rocketed to 72,000, according to new research from law firm Cleveland & Co.
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Half of management candidates need to improve leadership skills
New research suggests a core competency shortage with 50 per cent of management candidates lacking leadership skills and 49 per cent of staff level candidates lacking functional, job-related skills.
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Andrea Piacentini: Mobility programme management and compliance in an increasingly complex world
In a world where there are more and more regulations to identify and adhere to in the global mobility space, compliance to social security regulations, employment rules and a host of local and international laws is one of the key challenges for mobility professionals. And, as the world becomes more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, specialist knowledge and team work are defining characteristics of global mobility work.
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Talking politics in the workplace can negatively affect employees
Talking politics with colleagues can lead to all sorts of problems, particularly when there is a disagreement in political points of view
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What can HR managers learn from Allardyce’s sacking?
On Wednesday night, Sam Allardyce left his job as England manager after he was caught telling undercover reporters how to bypass rules on player transfers.
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Russell Kenrick: Mobilising project management training and skills
Global businesses face a number of serious challenges, ranging from the implementation of a new IT system to a complex change management process, or expansion into a new market. Large projects, worth more than $10m, are twice more likely to be late, over budget and miss critical features than small projects.
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Kim Lewin: Overcoming the five roadblocks to workforce management success
More than 17 percent of new technology initiatives fail, sometimes, according to McKinsey, generating large enough cost overruns so as to put an organisation’s future in jeopardy. Even successful projects often fail to achieve the full range of intended benefits. In the case of a technology project seeking to hit its mark – from staying on budget to achieving the desired results – these failures can often be traced back to shortcomings in how the human element of the project was managed.
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John Sylvester: Unlocking the value of peer recognition on every level of the organisation
While 85 percent of employees feel appreciated by their direct managers, only 57 percent feel appreciated by senior management.
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