Strategic HR

Boosting your bottom line through employee engagement

By targeting your lowest-paid staff rather than those at the top you could begin to see real progress

Measuring leadership effectiveness

Measuring the effectiveness of leaders is nothing new, but should HR be looking beyond financial outputs?

Executive perspectives: Top five risks

The Executive Perspectives on Top Risks for 2017 research was conducted by North Carolina State University’s ERM Initiative and Protiviti

Analytics on employee benefits still lacking

Businesses advised to analyse data at their disposal, such as claims, absences or health risk assessments

Organisation-wide risk management in action

Risk management principles are embedded throughout the entire business at SSE

Give the apprenticeship levy a chance

We need to allow some time for the kinks to be straightened out and for employers to take advantage of the levy

Talent strategies not fit for fourth industrial revolution

?Executives don't believe their organisations have the right talent to succeed in the fourth industrial revolution

Wunderman's inclusive approach to health and wellbeing

Looking after employees’ health is seen as a long-term investment at digital agency Wunderman

Carillion: So many governance questions, so few answers

Now is the perfect time for boards to be asking difficult questions about their own governance and remuneration policies

Risk management in an age of uncertainty

Risk is not an exact science, so HR needs to help create cultures where all employees embrace the unknown

Boosting engagement among part-time staff at Go Outdoors

Go Outdoors deployed a platform to motivate short-term and part-time staff and improve their development – while lifting sales

HR mythbusting: Does surveillance improve performance?

Our series by Adrian Furnham and Ian MacRae explores what myths HRDs should be seeking to debunk in 2018