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I was facilitating a meeting at what was formerly known as the Dti (now BIS) when the original Engaging for success report was first commissioned back in 2008. We were in the middle of a very tricky change programme that was unfortunately shelved when the impact of the financial crisis hit. Continue reading
If you work in compensation, at some point you will have been asked ‘what is the right level of pay for an xxx’. And more often than not the person asking that question would like you to produce a folder, possibly along with a calculator, and come up with a simple and straightforward answer. Continue reading
One thing is clear from the Supreme Court’s deciding that Leslie Seldon’s law firm could force him to retire – and it’s something that his firm and others may not want to hear: it is going to prove a very expensive and difficult to repeat the trick. Continue reading
Even if you think of it as an investment, it’s undeniable that training carries an up-front cost. So if we want more firms to train, we should try to get costs down, shouldn’t we, and reduce at least that barrier to training? Continue reading
HR professionals never cease to surprise me. I’ve been to the CIPD’s HRD conference four years in a row but this is the first time I’ve seen one don a full body banana costume halfway through their presentation.
Ben Connell, Learning and Development specialist at Google, said something quite surprising at the CIPD’s HRD conference on Wednesday. In answer to a question about cost pressures affecting learning and development, he replied that the internet giant was “actually pretty frugal” when it came to L&D, and was reluctant to buy in external learning resources unless it was absolutely necessary. Continue reading
You would think spymasters would be the most reluctant respondents in tribunal cases. Surely they, of all organisations, would not want their (potentially) dirty linen washed in public? You would expect them to try very hard indeed to resolve issues before they got to a hearing. Continue reading
Trust in ‘the professions’ has been declining for some years. Recent scandals regarding phone-hacking, MPs’ expenses, mis-selling of insurance by bankers, even cruelty to those in care by some nurses, have raised further questions about whether “professionals” can be trusted. Continue reading
A fascinating and sometimes challenging feature of working on People Management is when, every so often, we have to take a view on what constitutes good practice in recruitment advertising, whether on the website or in the magazine. I’m not talking about the obvious legal issues here – avoiding discrimination on grounds of race, sex, disability and age – but about grey areas, where best practice is well ahead of, or not amenable to, regulation.
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The test of whether a dismissal is unfair will soon be determined by a lawyer sitting alone in an employment tribunal – a misnomer if ever there was one – rather than by a lawyer in the tribunal chair, along with two lay members who have expertise in industrial relations/human resources as representatives of employers and employees. Continue reading
