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The Human Resource: November 2016

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Tuesday, 29 November 2016. How To Avoid Workplace Christmas Party Nightmares. It’s fair to say that the workplace Christmas party gets its fair share of bad press. From punch-ups and offensively drunk staff, through to extra-marital activities and unwanted advances, we’ve all heard the horror stories. Depending on just how cautious you like to be, you might think that you’d be better off cancelling the whole thing and saving yourself the headache. Remind your staff of your standards. Planning is extremel...

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The Human Resource: March 2016

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Monday, 28 March 2016. Health and wellbeing: are your employees bouncing with Spring energy? At this time of year, many of us are keen to get our health and fitness back on the right track after all those Easter chocolates and winter sloth. This counts for your team as well. You need everyone fully energized and firing on all cylinders, so it makes sense to encourage them to take care of themselves and live a healthier and more balanced lifestyle. Here are some ideas for positive action:. Changes can mak...

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The Human Resource: Help! All My Staff Want Time Off Over Christmas!

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Tuesday, 8 November 2016. All My Staff Want Time Off Over Christmas! What should you do, and how should you approach this challenge without landing yourself in a nightmare situation? So you aren’t obliged to give your workers the time off that they want. Still though, this doesn’t mean that you should announce that everyone’s presence is required, and accept no more comments or questions on the matter. This approach will no doubt cause a great deal of unrest, and do you no favours. By now, you probably r...

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The Human Resource: May 2016

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Saturday, 21 May 2016. Is It Legal To Force Women To Wear High Heels? A 27-year old woman has recently claimed that she turned up for work wearing flat shoes on her first day as a corporate receptionist for a City accountancy firm, only to be told that she had two choices – be sent home without pay, or go buy a pair of heels between two and four inches high. Employers in the UK are within their rights to dismiss a mem. But let’s forget about the law for a second, and apply a little bit of common se...

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The Human Resource: What’s so wrong with zero hours contracts?

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Tuesday, 22 November 2016. What’s so wrong with zero hours contracts? Zero hour contracts must have attracted more adverse publicity than any other way of organising work this century. So, what’s the problem? And should you stay well away from them as a good employer? A zero hours contract means that the employer does not guarantee a set number of working hours for the employee. Depending on the needs of the business, the worker could be asked to work full time hours some weeks and zero hours other weeks.

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The Human Resource: August 2016

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Thursday, 18 August 2016. Learning and the business: how one can revolutionise the other. Often learning is seen as an academic activity – maybe a hangover from our school days or just some misunderstanding about what learning is. Common descriptions used when describing learning include education, schooling. We often see learning as a separate activity, remote or distant from the reality of work / life. But in fact learning is all around us every day. Sometimes we just don’t call it that. Is the concept...

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The Human Resource: Creating a successful job share

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Friday, 14 October 2016. Creating a successful job share. As working patterns become more flexible, job sharing is an arrangement that we’re hearing about more and more. Britain. First ever political job share: Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley were elected recently as co-leaders of the Green Party. They described it as a pioneering job-share arrangement that would help them both balance family and work commitments. What’s in it for your business? Two people sharing one role. Job sharing could mean.

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The Human Resource: October 2016

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Friday, 28 October 2016. Engagement in small companies. In the past couple of weeks, I have seen two fantastic examples of great customer service and business growth. The first is a local business who fixed a small plumbing job for me. I am going back to them with a much bigger piece of work and I have told at least five other people how good they are. So, what do they have in common? In contrast, I was visiting a small business last week which has just been taken over by a new owner. But many small busi...

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Swindon Business Village - Page 2 of 14 - Business Networking in Swindon

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Business Networking in Swindon. What to look for in a business networking group. Business Breakfast Networking Swindon. Membership Rules & Guidelines. These blog posts are written by our members and syndicated from their own websites. Clicking a link will take you to their website. Dealing with change in your business. Change can bring opportunity. But it can also bring uncertainty. No matter what form change takes –. And facing the unknown can be hard. Spreading them to your team simply won’t help...