Alternative dispute resolution describes a range of techniques that involve a neutral third party helping to resolve a dispute between two parties, before recourse to courts or tribunals is necessary. Types of alternative dispute resolution include arbitration, conciliation, mediation and early neutral evaluation.
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) provides those involved in disagreements with an option to avoid stressful legal procedures, say Linda Goldman and Joan...
Acas has seen a 15% rise in demand for conciliation in large-scale disputes, such as those between unions and the...
Half the organisations surveyed in XpertHR’s conflict management survey that have altered their conflict management approach in the last two years...
Personnel Today has announced the introduction of a new category in the Personnel Today Awards 2011 – innovation in dispute...
The amount of time spent by employers resolving individual workplace conflict has increased in more than 40% of UK organisations...
Edward Davey, minister for employment relations, talks exclusively to Personnel Today about the Government’s plans for reforming the ways in...
Acas has welcomed the Government’s proposal for potential employment tribunal claims to be referred for early conciliation, in its formal...
No employer wants to go through a discipline and grievance process – they are time-consuming, potentially costly and can damage...
To help our customers make a great start to 2011, People Resolutions is offering its hugely popular Conflict Clinics for...
Recent news that the BBC paid out almost £600,000 dealing with employment tribunal claims last year has highlighted the tremendous...
CMP Resolutions founder and veteran of 25 years of workplace dispute resolution John Crawley believes a resolution revolution at work...
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Workplace disputes could be resolved earlier with greater understanding from union officials of how the collective conciliation process works, according...
More than half of the UK’s senior HR professionals are in teams in which nobody has experience of dealing with trade union...
The majority of UK employees do not believe that HR departments are best placed to manage conflict in the workplace,...
