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Thursday, March 8th, 2012How’s your manpower planning? Not got an up-to-date manpower plan? Oh dear, you could be caught out and have to face problems because you have insufficient staff to meet a change or increase in demand, or worse, have to carry out a redundancy exercise. So have a look at the business plan for the next [...]
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012Do you employ agency temps and understand their new rights? Do your Christmas presents to customers and from suppliers bring you into conflict with the new Bribery Act? Do you know how to deal lawfully with employees who reach the age of 65? If you are in any way responsible for other employees and have [...]
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012Another new year. The same old thing for the next twelve months? How do you feel about last year? Was it good? Do you feel satisfied? Well, this is a time for resolutions, so why not make some positive ones? Actually January is a month when resolutions are made and then fade away, but why [...]
Counselling – The Listening Skill
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012If an employee fails in some way to perform to a required standard you need to take prompt corrective action, and you will have a disciplinary process for doing so fairly and consistently. What you do depends upon whether you find the problem is one of the employee’s conduct or capability. In other words is [...]
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2011If you have not done so already, now is a good time to make your training plan for the coming year. As referred to below, training can make a huge difference to the performance of an organisation but its budget too commonly is a rough figure either plucked out of the air or guessed on [...]
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Monday, November 7th, 2011Autumn and early winter are seasons notorious for accidents. More work time is spent during hours of darkness, people feel gloomy, whatever – accident rates go up, so this is a good time to review the safety of your workplace. You may well have an active safety committee with keen safety representatives and regular inspections, [...]
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2011The Agency Workers Regulations came into force at the beginning of this month so, if you employ temporary staff, for example as clerical workers, drivers, warehouse operatives, make sure that you understand how these regulations now affect you. Essentially they require you to treat agency staff in exactly the same way as your permanent staff [...]
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011We are now in late summer, approaching autumn, when a manager’s thoughts turn to winter and the problems it brings. So start thinking now about actions that you could usefully take to minimise or eliminate some of those problems. Does the boiler need a service, does the heating system work? Give it a run for [...]
Employees with Bad Attitude
Thursday, August 11th, 2011Do you have in your workforce someone who is always miserable, always complaining about the weather, England’s performance, his or her relations and so on? Most organisations do have someone like that, and usually they are tolerated by viewing them as figures of fun. But their negativity can be draining on everyone and thus have [...]
