Opinion
Selecting apprentices: lessons we can learn from Germany
As National Apprenticeship Week begins, Howard Grosvenor looks at how German companies are selecting apprentices by supporting candidates to identify...
Managing young people: the business where most employees retire at 20
How do you manage a workforce that by its very nature needs to move on at 20?
Employee engagement: are confusion and ambiguity hindering success?
There’s a lot of noise about employee engagement but not a great deal of clarity, argues Jo Harley. How can...
Living wage vs national living wage: government branding only fuels confusion
As research from XpertHR reveals that four in 10 employers do not understand...
Three key principles for gender pay transparency
Due to the upcoming reporting legislation, employers are beginning to embrace their responsibilities on addressing gender pay equality. Ruth Thomas...
“Now wash your hands”: Three ways to look at employee engagement
We can really over-engineer things in HR. The jargon, the models of engagement, the diagnostics. Are we creating a veneer...
How to manage career FOMO: fear of missing out
Workplaces are changing, but we need to address our attitudes towards traditional career development. The CIPD’s Claire McCartney looks at...
How can the gender balance in engineering be improved?
Despite a raft of initiatives, there still aren’t enough women entering the engineering profession. Charlie Weatherhogg, HR director of infrastructure...
Flexible working: let workers switch off over Christmas
How many of us will really switch off this Christmas (and that means turning off the smartphone, not just taking...
Four ways to build engagement through storytelling
Storytelling is about much more than telling a good tale – it can engender strong emotional connections from employees and...
“If you don’t like it here… f*** off”, and other management traits
It might sound aggressive, but an “in-your-face” management style can work in certain environments. But which management traits help to...
Employee engagement: are your happy workers disengaged?
It trips businesses up when they get engagement and happiness confused, warns change specialist Penny Loveless. She considers the barriers...
Unlock leadership potential to create high-performing teams
Chris Henderson, author of leadership book JUMP! identifies six “game-changing conversations” every leadership team should have to improve their organisation’s...
Law firm: how we made flexible working work
Despite a raft of legislation supporting employees to request flexible working, some employers are still reluctant to look at new...
Shared grandparental leave risks dads missing out – Jo Swinson
George Osborne’s announcement that working grandparents will be eligible to shared parental leave entitlement looks like a progressive move, but...
