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Employers who allow staff to work from home need to ensure home workers enjoy equal career development prospects, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has warned. The CIPD’s warning comes in response to Durham Business School’s...
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A lack of clear guidance for staff on their behaviour at work can damage your business. Simon Wicks looks at how having a code of conduct can reduce your risks “Research shows that businesses with a code of ethics outperform those that don’t,” asserts...
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What can you do when one of your staff is breaking up because of a crisis outside work? It’s almost impossible to keep work and personal lives completely separate. But what do you do when an employee’s personal problems seep into the workplace and won...
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Author: John Hall, chief executive, newtomorrow.com Topic: Debt | getting your employees out of a black hole About: newtomorrow.com Newtomorrow.com specialises in consumer debt, focusing on debt solutions tailored to the circumstances of each individual...
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The workplace has always been a breeding ground for romance – research by careerbuilder.co.uk even suggests that 55 per cent of employees have slept with a colleague. You may think it’s none of your business, but relationships can harm performance and...
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Recent research by employment law consultancy Peninsula BusinessWise suggests 90 per cent of bosses are considering cancelling the staff Christmas party for fear of tribunal claims arising from bad behaviour. Tom Whitney outlines eight things you can...
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I’m too stressed to cope… If you’re constantly feeling tired, irritable and anxious, you could be suffering from work-related stress. The long-term effects can include depression, high blood pressure and heart disease, so it is vital you recognise the...
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How to do it: Manage your customer relationships • Communicate with customers • Measure customer service levels • Assess your resource levels • Hold training sessions on a continuous basis • Make the most of technology When working for a developing business...
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Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is thought to affect millions of people in the UK every year and may well be at the root of an annual slump in productivity across the country. What can you do to help your staff beat the winter blues? Every winter, workplaces...
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Source: Management Today Date: June 2007 Author: Helen Kirwan-Taylor Sedentary lifestyles, poor diet and stress can cause sluggishness and absenteeism at work. Keen to pep up employee performance, firms are putting in place wellness initiatives such as...
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Author: Jenny Robinson at Hinton & Co. Ltd Purposes Help people understand better how they are seen by others in the team. Give the team confidence that they can address peer performance issues in a positive way, without fudging. Build the team. Overview...
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Source: Management Today Date: June 2007 Author: Richard Reeves It's a cause that MT took up in the mid-90s, but in the decade since then, have we made any progress in establishing a healthy equilibrium between our working day and our personal time...
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Source: Management Today Date: March 2007 Author: Helen Kirwan-Taylor Attention to detail and a determination to do things properly are admirable traits. But for some, these virtues curdle into obsessive behaviour that stifles all self-expression in the...
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Source: the HR DIRECTOR Date: February 2007 Currently nearly 2.5 million employees in the UK work from home and this number has doubled in the past eight years.1 Pam Jones and Viki Holton, of Ashridge Business School, look at the growth in remote working...
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Source: the HR DIRECTOR Date: January 2007 Tom Rath, Global Practice Leader at Gallup, explains why employees who have a best friend at work, are seven times more likely to be emotionally engaged on the job. People with friends at work are 96% more likely...
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