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  • Most annoying office traits revealed

    A survey by the Institute of Leadership and Management has found the things that office workers hate the most in their colleagues . Here are the top nine most annoying things that colleagues can do according to whomever the ILM asked: Arrive late for meetings Leave dirty bowls and plates on their desk Gossip about other workers Discuss confidential...
    Published 3 May 2013 12:53 PM by Guru

  • Snow excuse for wasting time

    According to the Daily Mail, Britain is bracing itself for a white weekend . For employers and HR staff this also means bracing ourselves for a blanket of hyperbole and grandstanding as the same few employees spend every day in which the temperature is below 10 degrees loudly fretting about whether they will be able to get home and whether they should...
    Published 21 Mar 2013 2:37 PM by Guru

  • Study about rudeness at work baffles Guru

    Guru has encountered a baffling study on the CIPD about rudeness at work. The report from the International Journal of Research Slightly Less Valuable Than Commonsense, sorry, the Harvard Business Review, reveals that most people at work experience rudeness sometimes . The report states that 98% of 14,000 respondents reported experiencing rudeness over...
    Published 13 Feb 2013 10:55 AM by Guru

  • Guru backs Gove

    Being a keen employer of school leavers and bright young graduates, Guru is taking an interest in the debate surrounding education. He’s noticed that it doesn’t appear to be a particularly popular view, but he finds himself of one mind with education secretary Michael Gove who’s reforming education back towards a more information-...
    Published 6 Feb 2013 1:46 PM by Guru

  • Message from Telegraph: no more women on boards

    The board that Guru answers to has the typical composition of egotistical, slightly autistic men, so Guru was overjoyed to stumble across the Telegraph’s fabulous new(ish) blog giving an insight into the machinations of the executive team from a female perspective. It’s just so typical of The Telegraph to stick up for the minority. After...
    Published 25 Jan 2013 8:20 AM by Guru

  • Chinese workers demand a wee bit more consideration

    Staff at the Shanghai Shinmei Electric Company held their managers hostage for a day in protest over time-limits on bathroom breaks and onerous rules on punctuality. Staff were restricted to two minutes per toilet break, and were fined for being late into work once, and fired for being late a second time. Guru suggests that the Chinese employers introduce...
    Published 22 Jan 2013 2:35 PM by Guru

  • Stop trying to inspire me and get on with your work

    Guru is back at work and is quite comfortable being back, having always believed that routine and hard work are healthy for the soul. What he isn’t comfortable with is the new year blight of being bombarded with “inspiring” messages from his colleagues and peers who obviously feel that a week’s holiday warrants a great inquisition...
    Published 2 Jan 2013 10:53 AM by Guru

  • Forgive Andrew Mitchell for Christmas

    Although Guru takes an instant dislike to anybody who’s not embarrassed to identify themselves as a Tory, he was amazed to read this morning that a YouGov poll found that 49% of people think Andrew Mitchell would have been right to resign on the basis of having said “I thought you lot were supposed to f**king help us”. What world are...
    Published 24 Dec 2012 1:10 PM by Guru

  • Cathay Pacific staff plan mass sulk

    Cathay Pacific staff have voted to withhold food, alcohol and smiles from customers during the Christmas period over a pay dispute. Management are offering them a 2% payrise, but union bosses want 5%. Guru doubts the measures will make much difference. Guru has barely smiled in 40 years and nobody is offering him a payrise. Read More...
    Published 14 Dec 2012 12:45 PM by Guru

  • Shares for rights consultation an early Christmas present

    Amongst all the miserable weather and the rapid approach of the odious time of year that is Christmas, Guru has been hugely uplifted by the publication of a document entitled “ Implementing Employee Owner Status: Government Response to Consultation ”. The BIS is not usually a source of happiness and laughter, but the document delivers in...
    Published 5 Dec 2012 10:02 AM by Guru

  • Guru's guide to meeting the conversational demands of the workplace

    Watching TV is good for your career according to research from Russell Group First . They’ve revealed that watching TV can allow you to talk to other people about TV and that the other people may enjoy the conversation and like you more, directly resulting in promotions and payrises. Guru has done some research of his own and can reveal that going...
    Published 30 Nov 2012 12:25 PM by Guru

  • Guru has some advice for the British Dietetic Association

    We’re fast approaching Christmas party season, but obviously not at the British Dietetic Association. At the British Dietetic Association it’s the time of year for pumping out press releases full of sexist, idiotic nonsense. This is the opening to the email that greeted Guru this morning from the BDA: “Okay ladies, it’s time...
    Published 21 Nov 2012 10:49 AM by Guru

  • Horses talk business

    Image: Rex Features Guru has just received one of his favourite ever press releases. It involves the exciting new publication Unbridled Success . The press release tells us that the author, Julia Felton, “shares her profound life and the business lessons that horses have taught her ”. Note, that these aren’t lessons she’s learned...
    Published 8 Nov 2012 12:04 PM by Guru

  • People Management power tweeters live in a man's world

    Image: Rex Features Guru recently posted about the difficulties of finding male applicants for HR jobs , and it is self-evident that most HR practitioners are women; according to the CIPD, in 2011, 70% of its members were female . With that being the case, why is it that 75% of People Management’s top 20 power tweeters are men ? Guru doesn’t...
    Published 2 Nov 2012 10:52 AM by Guru

  • Guru delights in CIPD conference program

    Guru has been keenly scouring the CIPD conference fixture list , looking for the key seminars that will furnish his team with the knowledge and skills to tackle what’s likely to be another tough year in HR. In difficult financial times, with smaller HR teams trying to manage the consequences of redundancies and restructuring, there are three keys...
    Published 30 Oct 2012 11:25 AM by Guru
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