People strategies are a waste of time, writes performance coach Tom Emery, reflecting on his C-suite career. He shares regrets, lessons learned and the bottom line for making an impact. Summary: HR’s ...

HR has spent years misreading the “disengagement” issue. Ghassan Karian says it’s time to stop treating the symptoms and ...

Within the business we have an employee and a line manager whose working relationship has completely broken down. The Line Managers has been with us 20 years and has an unblemished record. The ...

First developed in the early 1960s by behavioural psychologist John S. Adams, equity theory is concerned with defining and measuring the relational satisfaction of employees. Adams suggested that ...

It’s not that managers are incapable. It’s that the role has lost coherence. Sarah Birtwistle draws on new research from ...

A good Employee Relations (ER) manager should be brimming with ideas and have enough sway, not only to get them past the development phase, but to bring about significant organisational change too. It ...

Jonathan Rosenberg, former Google product head, explained to the Harvard Business Review, that it is a policy within Google to never compromise on job requirements. Google is searching for the ...

As human beings we are unique and complex by default. We continuously seek affirmation. Our brains search for acknowledgement and appreciation of who we are and the identities we hold. Indeed, when we ...

Employee relations, known historically as industrial relations, is concerned with the contractual, emotional, physical and practical relationship between employer and employee. The term employee ...

I am doing some benchmarking and would like to know if anyone could share their policies on notice and probationary periods for senior managers (level below the board) please. We are specifically ...

Maintaining strong performance is no longer as straightforward as it used to be. Lesley Cooper has five practical areas to ...