Employee engagement
Employee engagement is vital because how employees behave will have an impact on the employer’s success. Employers should take steps to harness the creativity, commitment, passion, capability and energy of their workforce.
A typical way to measure employee engagement is to conduct a staff engagement survey, which can provide organisations with employee feedback to help them to identify where they are maximising employee potential and where attention is needed to improve staff motivation, productivity and retention.
Five ways HR is changing and how people leaders can get ahead (webinar)
Wednesday 4 March 2020, 2:00pm GMT
Are you equipped with the skills needed to lead a people team of the...
Flexible working: are we moving in the right direction?
New research underlines how businesses must learn to properly engage flexible workers.
‘Toxic, bullying culture’ and lack of diversity in fire services
Some of England’s fire and rescue services have a 'toxic, bullying culture' and a lack of diversity, inspectors have found.
Could your HR policies be stifling compassion?
As teams return to work and many employees continue to juggle heavy work demands with personal stress, how can HR...
Getting value out of your company values
It wasn’t until around 20 years ago that most companies began to state their values and deploy them as strategic...
More employees will look for new jobs in 2020
More than half of workers could be on the move to a new employer this year – up 8% on...
Why performance management and engagement should be linked
Employee engagement and performance management have traditionally been two separate facets of HR’s role. But both need to be better aligned for organisations to get the most from their people.
Tech companies dominate Glassdoor employer rankings
Six of the top 10 employers in the UK are technology companies, according to employer review site Glassdoor.
Poor management biggest factor in engagement
The ‘quality’ of a manager is the most important factor in employee job satisfaction, a joint business school research project...
Zalando accused of misusing software to rank workers
Online fashion retailer Zalando has been accused of using a performance management tool that ranks employees by how they evaluate...
Two-fifths of workers would fake a sick day
Two in five adults would fake a ‘sickie’ if they wanted a day off work, according to a Com Res...
Personnel Today Awards 2019: brighterkind’s caring culture earns Employee Engagement Award
Care provider brighterkind won the hearts of the Employee Engagement Award judges with their entry outlining the introduction of “pacesetters”...
Two-thirds don’t want to talk about money issues at work
Business for the Community research finds a fifth of staff are struggling to make ends meet.
How to manage employees with ‘side hustles’
More and more people are taking on “side hustles” in addition to their main job. But while supporting side hustles...
‘Conclusive link’ between happiness and productivity
It has long been suggested that happy workers are more productive, but now research from the University of Oxford has...
