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Line managers

Line managers are responsible for managing an employer’s employees or teams. Employers have a hierarchy whereby line managers report upwards to higher management levels. Line managers typically allocate employees’ work, mange employees’ performance, and organise the completion of tasks for the employer within a set budget.

The trend in recent years has been for HR to devolve tasks that it would have done to line managers. For example, line managers are more involved than ever in recruitment, performance management and communicating with employees. HR should train line managers on these areas.


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    Gender equality facing growing backlash from male managers

    by Jo Faragher 16 May 2022
    by Jo Faragher 16 May 2022

    A third of male managers think that too much effort is placed into supporting gender equality at work, a survey...

    • Gender pay gap
    • Gender
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    Gender parity in management ‘well behind’ where firms should be

    by Ashleigh Webber 8 Mar 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 8 Mar 2022

    Men still dominate management and leadership positions, and less than two-thirds of employers make an effort to ensure that women...

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    • Career development
    • Learning & development

    The ‘great resignation’: why HR and managers must work together on retention

    by Ashleigh Webber 14 Dec 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 14 Dec 2021

    Many employers will only act to retain a key employee once they have handed in their resignation, but a  successful...

    • Working from home
    • Hybrid working
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    Flexible Working Taskforce offers hybrid working advice

    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Dec 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Dec 2021

    Employers should engage with staff, managers, trade unions and employee representatives to understand the early lessons of hybrid working if...

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    How HR can help NHS staff bounce back

    by Dr Clare Holt 25 Nov 2021
    by Dr Clare Holt 25 Nov 2021

    With health workers in a delicate state as the pandemic continues, and the NHS potentially facing an exodus of staff...

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    • Learning & development
    • Management training

    Managers likely to change jobs if they haven’t had training

    by Ashleigh Webber 24 Nov 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 24 Nov 2021

    Two in five managers who haven’t received any management training are planning to change jobs over the next 12 months,...

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    Virtual event: Hear from world leader in manufacturing, Josh Valman, on how businesses can unlock innovation – fast

    by EDN 12 Nov 2021
    by EDN 12 Nov 2021

    PROMOTED | World leader in manufacturing, Josh Valman, CEO & Founder of RPD International, will discuss ways in which business managers and leaders can unlock innovation for business growth.

    • Working from home
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    Three in five HR professionals strengthened skills in pandemic

    by Ashleigh Webber 26 Oct 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 26 Oct 2021

    Three in five HR practitioners have upskilled or reskilled as a result of their organisation’s response to the pandemic, a...

    • Working from home
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    Hybrid working: Managers split over broadband responsibility

    by Rob Moss 6 Sep 2021
    by Rob Moss 6 Sep 2021

    As many workers embark on formal hybrid working arrangements, a survey of line managers suggests a split in whether employees...

    • Working from home
    • HR transformation
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    Dissatisfaction with leaders but no ‘great resignation’ finds global study

    by Adam McCulloch 2 Sep 2021
    by Adam McCulloch 2 Sep 2021

    Satisfaction with leadership is low and there is an increasing disconnect with employees with only a third of non-managers feeling they are getting due recognition.

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    • Coronavirus
    • Wellbeing

    How can we support managers’ wellbeing?

    by Jo Faragher 13 Aug 2021
    by Jo Faragher 13 Aug 2021

    Faced with pressures from above and cries of help from below, managers have been the unsung heroes of the pandemic....

    • Disability discrimination
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    • Mental health

    EE discriminated against employee with mental health condition

    by Ashleigh Webber 4 Jun 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 4 Jun 2021

    Tribunal finds a manager treated an employee with a disability unfavourably, despite knowing about her mental health conditions.

    • Offices
    • Working from home
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    Employees’ views not sought over return to office

    by Ashleigh Webber 11 May 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 11 May 2021

    A Chartered Management Institute survey finds that many managers have not spoken to staff about their working preferences.

    • Disability discrimination
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    • Fit notes

    Security manager told to ‘grow up’ during cancer treatment

    by Jo Faragher 31 Mar 2021
    by Jo Faragher 31 Mar 2021

    An employment tribunal in Birmingham ruled that Steve Pointon was subject to disability discrimination and constructive dismissal.

    • In-depth
    • Workplace culture
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    Performance: Why ‘rank and yank’ fell out of favour

    by Jo Faragher 26 Feb 2021
    by Jo Faragher 26 Feb 2021

    KPMG has been using a ‘set distribution’ or ranking approach to assessing employees’ performance. Like annual appraisals, this strategy has fallen out of favour in recent years, but why? 

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