Alastair Brown, Author at hronline

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Businesses are still slow to incorporate wellbeing policies

25th June 2015

According to Edenred’s 2015 Wellbeing Barometer, only 21% of companies believe they’ve got the right wellbeing policies in place.
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Five top tips for keeping your team on track

23rd June 2015

When the BBC announced that Chris Evans would take the wheel of its flagship motor show it was perhaps inevitable there would have to be auditions for a new team. Evans confirmed that the BBC would be auditioning anyone passionate about cars and passionate about Top Gear. With the drive to create a new Top […]
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Talent becomes harder to recruit and retain as recovery gains ground

22nd June 2015

Research carried out by the CIPD suggests that over the last 12 months, 78% of businesses in the UK have found it difficult to recruit staff with the skills they require.
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Do HR professionals need to work on their own Emotional Intelligence?

18th June 2015

A recent survey by business psychology consultancy JCA suggests there has been a huge slump in Emotional Intelligence (EI) in the HR industry over the last three years, illustrating that whilst HR professionals are committed to the EI of team members, they often overlook their own emotional intelligence.
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How to engage your employees when financial incentives aren’t appropriate

17th June 2015

When your employees wake up in the morning, what is it that you think fuels them to drive through their day?
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What can be learnt from the happiest jobs?

16th June 2015

The Guardian newspaper has carried out an extensive review of research carried out in a number of occupational surveys to ascertain which professions report high levels of satisfaction and happiness. But what does this tell us and how can these results be applied to other professions?
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Do good looking people get better jobs?

15th June 2015

It’s surely no coincidence that TV meteorologists around the world tend to be stunningly good looking, as though superhuman beauty and perfect teeth are essential for telling us if we need to apply sun cream or if we had better take an umbrella out with us. The “weather girl” role is undeniably one in which […]
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Take the HRonline survey

9th June 2015

hronline is evolving and we want your help! We’ve put together a short survey which we’d like you to take a few minutes to complete. We’re confident your insights will have a huge impact; inspiring the decisions we make about the future of the brand. We’ll treat your answers in the strictest confidence and as […]
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Ten Ways to Increase Employee Engagement

Companies can often adopt a laissez-faire attitude to employee engagement. They’ll say that natural selection will weed out any employee who doesn’t feel inspired by their day job, and that the switched-on ones will stick around and be productive. But it’s not as simple as that. Without a brutal regime of dismissing employees who don’t […]
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The Benefits of HR Software

2nd June 2015

Is your business still muddling along with a prehistoric HR system? Do staff book holidays by getting first dibs on their chosen bit of the calendar stuck to the wall? Do you risk pulling a muscle every time you reference someone’s personal files? Amazingly even in these modern, digitally connected, permanently-on times, there are still […]
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Tackling Absenteeism in the Workplace

29th April 2015

Copy and Paste the Code Below to Embed the Infographic on Your Site Tackling Absenteeism in the Workplace – An infographic by hronline According to the Office for National Statistics, there are currently about 31 million people in employment in the UK. Of those, roughly 8.5 million work part-time (74% of whom are women) and […]
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Return to Work Interviews: How & Why

9th April 2015

Does your company conduct return to work interviews when a member of staff has been off sick? A surprising number don’t, even though they’ll have been paying the member of staff while they were away from the workplace. There are a number of excuses you might put forward for not doing Return to Work interviews. […]
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What is Onboarding?

1st April 2015

Many of us will have been onboarded without even knowing it. Some of us will have missed the onboarding opportunity altogether – and once you’ve missed it, you’ve missed it for good. But what is this thing called onboarding? When a new person joins an organisation, they are being brought “on board”. So onboarding is […]
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Employee Onboarding: 5 Top Tips

27th March 2015

Starting a new job can be a stressful experience at the best of times. It might include giving up a good job to start anew with only the promises made in the recruitment process for comfort. People with mortgages and kids to support might have a pressing need for success, but in reality every new […]
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The History of Personnel Management

10th March 2015

The history of personnel management isn’t quite as straightforward as you may think. You could be forgiven for assuming that human resources is so ubiquitous and essential that there couldn’t possibly have been a time when industry managed without it. You’d be wrong. The world managed to get through an agricultural and an industrial revolution […]
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