After considerable debate on the subject, a far-reaching set of proposals aimed at changing key elements of employment legislation was revealed by Business Secretary Vince Cable during a speech to the EEF on November 23rd. The reforms are designed to help businesses to grow and flourish, by improving the way employers take people on, manage disputes [...]
Chin up! Maintaining morale in the work place. A recent piece of research has found that morale in the public sector has suffered over the past 12 months as a result of the reductions in funding and public service cost – cutting. This research by recruitment consultancy Badenoch & Clark found that local government has been [...]
Employee satisfaction hits record low in downturn Workers’ ‘fixed grin’ in tough times reaches public sector, finds CIPD A drop in living standards and job security has plunged workplace morale to record lows, according to the latest CIPD quarterly employee survey. The study of 2,000 UK employees found that staff satisfaction, and employee confidence and trust [...]
Collaboration and communication in the work place – the key to successful innovation and performance. I have been struck recently by how many people have talked about the importance of networking and collaborative thinking. It seems as if a new emphasis is being placed on the way in which a group of people can contribute more creatively [...]
Solo Consultancy Ltd Default Retirement Age (DRA) At present, the Government plans to abolish the Default Retirement Age (DRA) in April 2011. This move is based on the premise that it is wrong to fix a retirement age at a particular point in time (65 years old) and to expect that all employees will be ready, [...]
(First Published November 2010) The Comprehensive Spending Review was published by the Coalition Government today, and the implications of this are just starting to be analysed. But even at this early stage, it seems clear that in all areas of public expenditure, the government will be looking for more efficiency and economy in the ways in [...]
The Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development published results from a survey last October which indicated a rise in stress-related absence over the previous year in 35% of employers across all sectors, and that stress was the main cause of persistently high levels of long-term public sector absence (Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development, 2010). The [...]
I have been spending time this week working with clients to develop individual capability. This has included looking at management competencies, board effectiveness and 1-1 coaching sessions too. I am fortunate to have access to people from different walks of life, and the opportunity to extract and share lessons (whilst paying full heed to confidentiality of [...]
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