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Event twitter feed: Realistic expectations? The role of the line manager #roleoftheline
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Laughing all the way to the bank
26 May 2015Can laughter at work really make us more productive? Amanda Callen considers new evidence of the link between laughing and performance at work.
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Consulting to Change and Sharing in Success: Lessons from the IES HR Directors' Retreat
15 May 2015Duncan Brown revisits points made at the IES HR Directors' Retreat, asking how we can successfully implement change whilst maintaining stability and engagement among employees.
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Making analytics count
14 May 2015'Customers of our organisations often are at the sharp end of evidence-free decision making.' Peter Reilly discusses the practicalities of making HR analytics a reality.
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May Day: pagan rites and employment rights
1 May 2015In the UK the 1st of May, May Day, is associated in most people’s minds with dancing, flowers and bonnets. However for many across the world it is more widely recognised as International Workers’ day, a day to celebrate the labour movement and the development of work and employment rights.
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Fair Pay: What do the Politicians and HR Directors want?
22 Apr 2015Duncan Brown comments on the forthcoming election manifestos with regard to pay, concluding that, with such all-party support for higher and 'fairer' pay, it is interesting to see that employers and their HR functions appear to be much less keen.
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Mary Parker Follett: an unsung heroine
16 Apr 2015Dilys Robinson introduces us to another unsung hero, Mary Parker Follett. First outlining Parker Follett's ideas, Dilys argues how her thinking applies to modern day people management and what we could learn from this great thinker from the past.