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Anyone seen an HR Director around here?

Who is responsible for Employee Relations strategy in the UK’s major organisations? You’d think that the answer would be pretty straightforward: surely it’s the organisation’s HR Director, isn’t it? But you’d be excused for thinking otherwise if you looked...

Published 26 Mar 2010 9:37 AM by HR Case Studies

Filed under: Understanding HR Objectives and Strategies, Effective Employer/Employee Relations, HR Case Studies
Brits: Your employer owes you over £5,000 for unpaid overtime

According to figures published by the TUC, if you're an average Brit putting in unpaid overtime you would only start being paid from today if you'd done all your unpaid work at the start of the year! However, if you're one of those who clock...

Published 26 Feb 2010 9:29 AM by HR Case Studies

Filed under: Recession, Effective Employer/Employee Relations, Developing and Retaining an Effective Workforce, HR Case Studies
Quick! Somebody get me a paramedic with sensible socks, shiny shoes and a tucked-in shirt (and clean religious headgear!)

I dare you not to laugh at this. Avid followers of HR Case Studies will already be aware that senior management within North West Ambulance Service have decreed that socks with images of cartoon characters, or days of the week are "inappropriate"...

Published 12 Feb 2010 9:52 AM by HR Case Studies

Filed under: Effective Employer/Employee Relations, HR Case Studies
Let me through I'm a paramedic (wearing inappropriate footwear)

What a weird world we live in! As readers of HR Case Studies already know, American HR Managers are kept awake at night by the thought of bare legs , but here in the United Kingdom the most significant business issue to be occupying the minds of management...

Published 6 Feb 2010 9:37 AM by HR Case Studies

Filed under: Effective Employer/Employee Relations, Developing and Retaining an Effective Workforce, HR Case Studies
What happens when your employees are not engaged: They lick your chicken.

An unlicked chicken Here’s a challenge for those of you involved in Employee Engagement: could you have succeeded with this guy who used to work in my local Asda store? Film of supermarket worker Adeel Ayub who worked in the Asda store in Fulwood, Preston...

Published 22 Jan 2010 12:09 PM by HR Case Studies

Filed under: Effective Employer/Employee Relations, Developing and Retaining an Effective Workforce, HR Case Studies
New role models for HR professionals: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall

Shame on you People Management magazine! In the current online edition of the CIPD's flagship publication, there's a report on (yet another!) workplace survey, this time one undertaken by that well known player on the field of Human Resources...

Published 21 Jan 2010 10:11 AM by HR Case Studies

Filed under: Soft HR Strategy, Effective Employer/Employee Relations, Developing and Retaining an Effective Workforce
British Social Attitudes Survey reveals deep concerns over diversity

The publication in March of this year of the latest British Social Attitudes survey is certain to cause many UK businesses to question how effective the diversity agenda has been. Speaking on Radio 4 yesterday, report author Professor David Voas of Manchester...

Published 11 Jan 2010 8:24 AM by HR Case Studies

Filed under: Developing an Effective Workforce, Understanding HR Objectives and Strategies, Effective Employer/Employee Relations, HR Case Studies
Taking bullying seriously: The Church of England

This morning's Radio 4 Sunday programme included a fascinating news item concerning bullying of ministers within the established church. But banish the idea of a bullying bishop or a vengeful verger: most of the reported bullying, intimidation and...

Published 10 Jan 2010 2:56 PM by HR Case Studies

Filed under: Soft HR Strategy, Effective Employer/Employee Relations
Don’t trust the boss? Don’t worry, the boss doesn’t trust you either!

Pic: a rather scrumptious looking porkie According to recent research (mid week groan), two-thirds of managers believe that they can tell when their staff are lying, and 90% don’t believe reasons given for being late for work. But it also seems that these...

Published 1 Dec 2009 9:33 PM by HR Case Studies

Filed under: Effective Employer/Employee Relations, Developing and Retaining an Effective Workforce, HR Case Studies
Have you calculated your TCA (Total Cost of Assholes)?

Harvard Business Publications may be more well-known for academic and theoretical tomes, but the issue of workplace bullying has made its way to the inner sanctum of management strategy – clearly a sign that such a subject will be receiving increasing...

Published 24 Nov 2009 9:30 AM by HR Case Studies

Filed under: Effective Employer/Employee Relations, Developing and Retaining an Effective Workforce, HR Case Studies
Would you take a pay cut for a better boss?

The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) has just published the results of a survey (all together now…..groan) of 3,000 UK adults which reveals that one in every two workers would be prepared to take a pay cut if that meant they could work with a better...

Published 10 Nov 2009 10:55 AM by HR Case Studies

Filed under: Effective Employer/Employee Relations, Developing and Retaining an Effective Workforce, HR Case Studies
Stop! Thief! Someone’s stolen my ideas!

The UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence(NIHCE) has today published a set of guidelines for employers on promoting mental wellbeing through productive and healthy working conditions. Although the guidance and supporting documentation...

Published 5 Nov 2009 9:45 AM by HR Case Studies

Filed under: Soft HR Strategy, Effective Employer/Employee Relations, Developing and Retaining an Effective Workforce, HR Case Studies
Now is (not) the winter of our discontent

Personally, I’d be happy to return to an era when the pop charts were filled with classics by The Police, Pink Floyd and The Boomtown Rats (though I’ll pass on Dr Hook, The Bee Gees and Lena Martell), but it seems that despite a rash of strikes involving...

Published 31 Oct 2009 7:43 PM by HR Case Studies

Filed under: Effective Employer/Employee Relations, HR Case Studies
The cost of poor HR: €1 billion and 25 lives

Regular readers of HR Case Studies will be familiar with the shocking series of suicides at France Télécom which have taken place while the Company has been implementing a modernisation drive. Since February 2008, there have been 25 suicides and a further...

Published 30 Oct 2009 10:11 AM by HR Case Studies

Filed under: Hard HR Strategy, Effective Employer/Employee Relations, HR Case Studies, Competitive Organisational Structures
Royal Mail dispute: what's all that about then?

Is it just me, or are you also in the dark over what the Royal Mail strike is actually about? OK, it’s obvious that management of Royal Mail want to “introduce modern working practices” (whatever that actually means) and striking staff feel the need to...

Published 29 Oct 2009 9:32 AM by HR Case Studies

Filed under: Effective Employer/Employee Relations, HR Case Studies, Competitive Organisational Structures

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