Change Management and Managing Change – Harmonisation and Achieving Harmony When any major and significant change takes place in the structure of a business that involves merging with another business, via a takeover or the re-awarding of a third...
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Changing a Contract of Employment
Making Contractual Changes In our article on “Change Management and the Management of Change” we referred to times when an organisation needs to make a fundamental change that is likely to affect a contract of employment or alter the “statement of...
Managing Change: Redundancy
In our recent article on “Change Management and the Management of Change” we talked about the varying situations in which change occurs, the majority of which are positive and are necessary because of a healthy, growing business. However, there are...
Change Management and Managing Change
What do we mean by Change Management? Change is an act or a process through which something becomes different. This definition can also be applied to business. The main reasons for business change fall into the following broad categories: Looking...
An Employers Perspective: The BSI’s NEW Code of Practice to improve Health and Wellbeing for Staff
According to statistics that have been published by the HSE, there were 595,000 cases of work-related anxiety, depression, or stress in the 2017/18 period. This marked a prevalent rate of 1,800 affected individuals per 100,000 workers. As a result,...
The ‘Brexit Effect’ on employment in the UK
It’s difficult to avoid Brexit It’s in the newspapers, on TV, discussed online, debated on social media and a major topic of conversation. Some of us would rather forget about the whole thing or put a plan in place to deliver it. However, a large...
Long Term Fatigue: The TATT Problem
Have you ever arrived at work, only to find that your employees are slacking, dozing off or even fast asleep in their chair? ‘Tired All the Time’, otherwise known as TATT, is often seen as a syndrome that is similar to chronic fatigue. It...
How can Employers tackle Loneliness in the Workplace?
Loneliness is a sad and painful ailment, defined as “a complex set of feelings that occurs when intimate and social needs are not adequately met”. It is important for employers to understand that loneliness causes a different emotional response...