User Guides Archive
Downloadable guides to current issues affecting the HR and Change Management industry. Be sure to bookmark this page or subscribe to our RSS feed for regular updates. Please note that these guides are in pdf format. If they don't open on your computer you might want to download Adobe Acrobat Reader
The benefits of effective performance management
According to recent research by the Hay Group, just over a quarter of UK business leaders believe that managers in their firms fail to use performance management processes effectively. Yet over three quarters of them acknowledge that individual performance management is an important driver of overall business performance and improvement.
Age discrimination and the retirement issues
The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations of 2006 have now, to all intents and purposes, been incorporated into the Equality Act 2010 which came into force on 1st October last year. This new Act not only continues the existing rules against age discrimination, but has extended the protection into new areas, increasing the extent to which employers or their associated parties can be liable for breach of the law.
There is no limit to what your team can achieve if you give your staff the right incentives. This guide looks at how to get everyone to shine.
Drugs in the workplace - what can employers do?
Mention the word ‘drugs’ and you conjure up a lurid image of crazed junkies shooting up in
dingy tenement basements. However, the problem is far wider. We look at the issue of drugs in the workplace.
How to manage change in the workplace
Organisations can become set in their ways, responding to circumstance but not moving ahead or creating opportunities. The result may be stagnating profits and personnel who are just coasting along. When this happens it’s time to introduce new work practices.
Using appraisals to boost performance
Did you know that staff performance reviews often leave workers feeling disappointed and
demotivated?
Beware the age discrimination laws
An important law came into force on 1 October 2006 that affects every business in the land, large or small, employing staff. And it’s a minefield for employers.
