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Mentoring and coaching are the missing link in the recruitment and retention strategy of too many organisations.Management consultant Mike Williams told a seminar on the war for talent at the …
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One in six people who becomes disabled while in work loses their job within a year, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.In the report Enduring economic exclusion: disabled people, income …
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Employees are backing companies that let them choose the benefits they want, according to data from the Industrial Society.The research found the number of flexible benefits schemes has doubled in …
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Some 17 per cent of Australians of working age (2.1 million people) have a disability, according a report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. It found a quarter of those …
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Human capital represents a major part of a company’s value – but how can it be measured? Philip Whiteley investigates Watson Wyatt’s Human Capital IndexMobile phone giant Nokia has fixed …
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Shortlisted team for Occupational Health Award for Managing Employee Health: Personnel Today Awards 2000.A holistic approach to the well-being of the organisation set Sandwell Healthcare NHS Trust on the path …
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Shortlisted team for Occupational Health Award for Managing Employee Health: Personnel Today Awards 2000.When the Sperrin Lakeland Health and Social Care Trust set up a working group to examine staff …
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One-woman HR team manages recruitment Annabel Roaf, HR manager, TheFirstResort.com Annabel Roaf graduated with a psychology degree in 1994 and spent five years as a financial recruitment consultant at Hays …
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We make no apologies for having a women-only Web site of the Week – however, we dare say men could learn a thing or two from it. The site is …
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e-vangelist David Taylor reports on the implications of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act It was once the Government’s claim that the UK would become the most e-friendly country in …
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William M Mercer has expanded and re-designed its on-line pension information service. In future, material will be published on-line at the same time as it is made available to Mercer’s …
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High hopes are riding on education delivered on the Internet but is it really going to change how people learn at work and will they accept that they have to …
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A dream or a nightmare? Everybody in your hard-won and carefully nurtured HR team has been poached by a jealous rival. Not only that, but they are all locked into …
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Landmark Scottish case supports right of homosexuals to complain of unfavourable treatment by employers. In a ground-breaking decision, the Scottish EAT in MacDonald v Ministry of Defence (2000) has ruled …
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The power to put a senior executive or a highly skilled employee on garden leave is often exercised by employers when such an employee resigns or is dismissed. Not only …