Met Police launches forum to help employers fight the rising tide of employee fraud

The Metropolitan Police Service and organisations from the screening and vetting industry are to launch a cross-sector forum to share information and advice and improve awareness of the role of...

Are PowerPoint presentations the best way to get your message across?

PowerPoint seems to be the crutch of most presenters. It pulls together a range of important messages and allows them to be presented in a highly visible way on a large screen. It can be animated,...

Survey shows the importance of involving workforce in change programmes

Business leaders have unrealistic expectations about the success of their change programmes, with 64% of directors rating the results over the past year as positive compared with 45% of staff.

Rebranding of William Hill to the more friendly-sounding Bill Hill is on the cards

William Hill is considering rebranding to Bill Hill as a means to be seen as a friendly organisation with a community feel, according to its HR director.

Employers must be upfront and honest with staff as well as unions, says Gate Gourmet's HR director

HR has been advised not to fear trade union reaction to redundancies but to forge relationships and agreements with them to manage organisational change.

Don't let back-stabbing take hold

With jobs at stake team spirit tends to suffer as people focus on proving their own worth.

Discard the subordinate mindset

With the power distance between HR and other disciplines, aligning people strategies is tough.

Saying "thank you" to employees is proven to accelerate engagement

Employers can increase staff engagement by 20%-30% by simply saying "thank you" to staff, according to O.C. Tanner.

Internal events: Speakers from outside the business world are in great demand

Speakers from walks of life other than business are in great demand. There are many parallels between corporate life and the natural world, Peter Crush finds.

Marks & Spencer invites staff to air financial concerns on interactive television chat show

Marks & Spencer has launched an interactive online television chat show to provide employees with financial advice and information.

A strong message for HR: choose your words carefully

In a world governed by ever stricter regulations over who says what to whom, in what tone and why, we all have to be careful. But how many of us really spend much time thinking of what we are going to...

EXCLUSIVE: Employees are engaged if they know their firms' recession plan

Less than half (40%) of employees think their company has a clear plan to get through the recession and, of these, less than a third feel committed to the long-term success of their company.