Driving return on investment through people
Redundancies are an unfortunate reality in the present economic climate and legal claims often follow. Gordon Williams explores how consultation and redeployment can play an important role in mitigating the risks, both in unfair dismissal claims and also in relation to redundancy and parental leave Employees who would otherwise be […]
Some companies encourage staff to become entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs as it were. It’s a strategy designed to make the workplace more attractive and to retain and attract talent. Some of the best companies in the world do it. At 3M, intrapreneurs produced Post-It Notes and at Google, they were the ones […]
The human capital agenda is becoming more important at board level and HR leaders need to be comfortable in working effectively with directors, according to Wesfarmers’ chief human resources officer, Ben Lawrence. “Boards have really dialed up their interest around the human capital agenda and they have a high expectation […]
Some big changes may be in store for corporate HR functions within the next two years as companies around the globe face mounting pressure to improve the delivery and effectiveness of HR services. Companies have been carefully examining both their HR structures and the way HR services are being delivered, […]
Paying attention to culture does matter to the business, because it is a company’s culture that fuels the dominant drivers of share price today, writes Dave Hanna Organisational culture is a topic that continues to polarise the corporate world. My definition of culture is very simply “the way we do […]
