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Stephen Overell

Stephen Overell

    • Change management
    • Employee relations
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Dispensing with the disposable

    by Stephen Overell 10 Aug 2004
    by Stephen Overell 10 Aug 2004

    Long-term relationships at work are back in vogue as employers tire of the disposable workforce. Or so the facts suggest

    • Employment law
    • Flexible working
    • Recruitment & retention

    Slavish desire to work on

    by Stephen Overell 13 Jul 2004
    by Stephen Overell 13 Jul 2004

    The workers' freedom to work is more than just an employers' con trick - it's about flexibility and the right to choose

    • Employee relations
    • Psychological contract
    • Flexible working

    Believing in the workers

    by Stephen Overell 22 Jun 2004
    by Stephen Overell 22 Jun 2004

    The Archbishop of Canterbury believes portfolio working is no kind of job for a person of integrity. He's right - up to a point

    • Health & Safety Executive
    • Wellbeing
    • Opinion

    HR treads a hazardous path

    by Stephen Overell 8 Jun 2004
    by Stephen Overell 8 Jun 2004

    The quango responsible for health and safety has to have different preoccupations in today's workplace

    • HR strategy
    • Human capital
    • Opinion

    All counting for nothing

    by Stephen Overell 25 May 2004
    by Stephen Overell 25 May 2004

    Where has the Government's brief flirtation with human capital management led us? And what's happened to its report?

    • Employment law
    • Ethics
    • HR practice

    Mental block on values

    by Stephen Overell 11 May 2004
    by Stephen Overell 11 May 2004

    Companies' desire to control employee behaviour has been wrapped in corporate jargon. But what happens to the misfits?

    • Employment law
    • Ethics
    • HR strategy

    What about the quality?

    by Stephen Overell 27 Apr 2004
    by Stephen Overell 27 Apr 2004

    In the alleged new era of high employment, perhaps it’s time to think about the quality rather than the quantity...

    • Employee relations
    • Dispute resolution
    • Employee communications

    US union busters land in UK

    by Stephen Overell 13 Apr 2004
    by Stephen Overell 13 Apr 2004

    The shadow of European interference still dominates in the media despite the recent appearance of US 'union busters'

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Equal pay

    Painting over the cracks

    by Stephen Overell 30 Mar 2004
    by Stephen Overell 30 Mar 2004

    Diversity and equality are not the same thing. HR would be wise to remember that. Equality is the one that counts

    • Employee relations
    • Dispute resolution
    • Employee communications

    Barking up the wrong tree

    by Stephen Overell 16 Mar 2004
    by Stephen Overell 16 Mar 2004

    HR is right to believe cynicism is a major threat to working life, but remember: cynics have never been a barrel of laughs

    • Recruitment & retention
    • Psychometric testing
    • Opinion

    Testing the patience of a saint

    by Stephen Overell 2 Mar 2004
    by Stephen Overell 2 Mar 2004

    The production of numerous codes of conduct have not reduced the risk of employers misusing the personality test

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Executive pay
    • Equal pay

    Time to thin down fat cat pay

    by Stephen Overell 17 Feb 2004
    by Stephen Overell 17 Feb 2004

    HR is complicit in the great fat cat pay heist. It is time it gave some thought to improving the link betweenperformance and reward

    • ESG
    • HR strategy
    • Pay & benefits

    Taking CSR to the cleaners

    by Stephen Overell 3 Feb 2004
    by Stephen Overell 3 Feb 2004

    Corporate social responsibility will never make up for the inadequacy of the minimum wage in the capital

    • HR practice
    • Opinion
    • Work-life balance

    Campaign for leisure

    by Stephen Overell 20 Jan 2004
    by Stephen Overell 20 Jan 2004

    As work continues to dominate all aspects of our lives, the true value of leisure is only a distant memory

    • Economics, government & business
    • Labour market
    • Recruitment & retention

    The year of the self-employed

    by Stephen Overell 6 Jan 2004
    by Stephen Overell 6 Jan 2004

    Is the workplace revolution and the rise of the temp at last about to take place after the lost years of the 1990s?

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