Driving return on investment through people
A blended flexible work model has played a key role in optimising workforce productivity, boosting collaboration and improving employee engagement at Unisys, according to its HR manager, Liz Hargreaves. In the past, Unisys allowed staff to choose the days and hours spent in the office, and for some, this meant […]
There have been three keys to the success of cloud accounting software firm Xero and its business model, according to its HR manager Chris Regan. The first key has been the leadership and vision of Xero’s founder Rod Drury, who Regan said has been central to creating the company values, […]
The three most important challenges for HR leaders are to help build an organisation that is adaptable, to create an environment that inspires extraordinary contribution from its people and to help make innovation a systemic capability, according to leading management guru Gary Hamel. Organisations are being challenged by change like […]
Leaders play a critical role in improving engagement, and there are a number of steps they can take to work with employees in improving engagement levels, discretionary effort as well as individual and team performance and productivity, writes Karen Gately Engagement put simply is the extent to which people feel […]
The Emotiv Insight offers a new way to measure performance on the job, writes Craig Donaldson The Emotiv Insight is a sleek, five-channel, wireless headset that reads brainwaves and translates them into meaningful data to help track cognitive health. Developed by Emotiv Lifesciences, a US-based bioinformatics company which leverages cloud […]
