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3 days ago · Here's what HR magazine's editorial team learned from day two. HR editorial. 08 Nov 2024 News. Wellbeing. Wellbeing | We must bridge the cancer support gap with vocational rehabilitation. For those given the all-clear after cancer treatment, it might seem like a time of closure and renewed normalcy.
HR Magazine - Ethics and HR
Apr 16, 2019 · The risk is that an HR practitioner will find themselves bending at best (violating at worst) their personal ethics if they’re working in an unethical environment. “If you’re surrounded by people who are making decisions that maybe aren’t the most ethical it can be easy to be led astray,” Dicker warns.
HR Magazine - Breaking the silence: Employee voice
Jul 9, 2018 · Breaking the silence: Employee voice. Employees want their opinions and concerns heard at a strategic level, but there’s no one-voice-fits-all method. “Employee voice isn’t just a warm and cuddly agenda – it’s a hard-edged agenda about making sure your company is productive and innovative.”. So says Matthew Taylor, chief executive ...
HR must revisit language referring to older workers
Oct 14, 2024 · Fortunately for employers who are recruiting, The Centre for Ageing Better’s ‘Good Recruitment for Older Workers’ guide provides practical suggestions. It suggests avoiding the use of age-biased language, replacing terms such as ‘recent graduate’ and ‘innovative’ with specific skills required for the job. We need to become much ...
HR Magazine - Improving the workplace through critical thinking
Sep 21, 2022 · Thinking through individual goals critically and creatively. A key component of workplace happiness is employees’ sense that they are working toward something, both in terms of overall organisational goals and in terms of personal and professional growth. Regular reflection on individual goals is vital to sustaining a healthy workplace culture.
Work-related stress tops employers' health and wellbeing concerns
Oct 10, 2024 · Findings published by Grid on Tuesday (8 October) show that employers report being concerned about work-related stress and anxiety among the majority of generations of employees.. For Gen X (people aged 44 to 59), employers indicated that stress and anxiety related to home life was the biggest concern.. Finances and debt were the biggest cause of stress and anxiety in 2022 and 2023, Grid's ...
Over half of UK employers now provide enhanced maternity and …
May 24, 2021 · Speaking to HR magazine, Axtens said: "More than 85% of Working Families employer members enhance maternity pay and over 90% enhance paternity pay. Additionally, 79% enhance SPL to match their maternity provision. "Employers tell us they find the benefits boost engagement, employee wellbeing, recruitment and retention outweigh the additional ...
HR Magazine - Sue Gray resignation: What HR can learn
Oct 8, 2024 · On 18 September BBC News reported that Gray was the source of conflict among Labour colleagues, in part due to the news she had received a pay rise upon entering government. On Sunday (6 October) Gray said that she was resigning as she "risked becoming a distraction to the government’s vital work of change” due to the divisiveness of the ...
Why compressed work weeks benefit both employees and …
Feb 2, 2022 · Microsoft Japan began a four-day-week trial in 2019, alongside a drive to reduce meetings times to a 30 minutes maximum, and reported a 23% reduction in electricity costs and a 40% rise in sales per employee compared with the previous year. In November 2021, Atom Bank became the largest company in the UK to trial a four-day work week.
What is HR's role in ethics? (1) - HR Magazine
Dec 10, 2016 · HR managers’ role in the ethical conduct within an organisation can feed in at various points: in dealing with the aftermath of an ethical conflict. The first two of these can help to minimise the likelihood of ethical problems occurring in the first place. Ethical conflict, once it has arisen, presents a number of challenges; it can give ...