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Everyday Leadership in an Uncertain and Changing World
A recent report in the journal “People Management”[1] highlighted the interesting fact that by far the most popular and enduring topic in business books is that of Leadership and Management. And that these topics still attract the most...
Change Management and Managing Change: Dealing with Challenging Behaviours
Change projects can often continue over weeks, sometimes even months. From an HR viewpoint, the focus of managing the change is on how the workforce is adapting to new working situations, new colleagues, and sometimes even a completely new...
Contractual Change: TUPE
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...
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...
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More than 90% of the first small employers required to put their staff into a workplace pension have now complied with the law
More than 90% of the first small employers required to put their staff into a workplace pension have now complied with the law, showing that automatic enrolment is successful for all sizes of employer. The Pensions Regulator’s compliance and enforcement bulletin,...
Some Misconceptions about Pensions Auto Enrolment
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The Pensions Regulator (TPR) recently provided their four top tips for businesses yet to stage for auto enrolment.
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Are your employees satisified? 5 reasons they may be fed up
It can be a real blow when a trusted employee hands in their notice, especially for SMEs with a small workforce. Life brings new opportunities and your loyal staff-member may have simply found a post which suits them better; you shouldn’t assume they’re leaving...
Why HR is essential for small businesses
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Pensions Auto Enrolment: 10 tips to help get you ready
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Big employment law issues for smaller employers
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Britains performance management not fit for purpose
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Auto-enrolment Deadlines Loom – Is Your SME Ready?
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Using Childcare Vouchers in February half term
Using Childcare Vouchers in February half term February half term is just around the corner, unless you live in Bristol or Sheffield - in which case, it's here already! It may not seem like a long time since your children have returned to school, but the half term...