HR Tech – Making an Impact in 2021
Whether it is reward and recognition, diversity or maintaining engagement and communication with a remote workforce, HR tech will be at the heart of driving these initiatives forward, enabling HR to do more with tighter budgets and depleted resources. Alastair Cole reviews where you could use HR Tech to best effect.
Reframing reward post-COVID: create a foundation for recovery and growth
Motivation | Pay & Reward | Organisational Design | Reward Strategy | Performance | Wellbeing | Covid-19
Moving from reactive to proactively assessing current state against the future aspiration will place HR in control and will enable space to create a compelling, effective and sustainable people strategy that can support the business to transition from the recovery phase to the growth phase. Sarah Lardner explains how.
How to make your communication strategy inclusive
Employee engagement | Employee communications | Communications | Employee Experience
Achieving a truly inclusive internal comms strategy takes energy and a commitment to review and evolve. Cathryn Edmondson discusses some of the steps an organisation can take in pursuit of an inclusive internal comms strategy.
Why diversity and inclusion should be influencing your reward strategy
Equal Pay | Reward Strategy | Diversity | Ethnicity Pay Reporting
Whilst it is tempting during this period of uncertainty to invest less time in addressing diversity and inclusion initiatives, the consequences of placing them on the back burner are far reaching. Emer Bucukoglu suggests a few pointers to ensure you don't take your eye off the ball.
What shape is your organisation?
All too often, organisation redesign is done focusing on the now, using existing job grading and identifying what cost can be cut out as opposed to thinking about the future. The desired shape, i.e. what skills do we need and at what level, is a critical part of this conversation.
How communicating with and engaging employees will change in the next five years
Employee engagement | Employee communications | Engagement | Communications | HR Technology | Employee Experience | Diversity
As baby boomers bow out while Gen Z become a bigger proportion of the workforce, it’s important to rethink your organisation’s engagement strategy. With only 1 in 3 employees on average engaged globally, there has never been more reason to refresh existing tactics.
The Spending Review: the headline details HR leaders need to know
National Living Wage | Planning Ahead | Public Sector
Rishi Sunak delivered the 2020 Spending Review yesterday - here are the key points HR need to know at a glance, with our brief analysis of what this means and the four key impact points you need to prepare for.
HR's Christmas to-do list
Pay & Reward | Reward Strategy | Planning Ahead
With just over a month to go until the festive season is upon us, amid the gift buying and decorations your thoughts might also turn to the end-of-year to do list for HR. Judith Moore suggests a few things you should be considering during this period to make sure you are ahead in 2021.
ESG metrics in executive pay: creating long term sustainable value for all stakeholders
Executive Pay | Executive Compensation | Exec pay | Responsible Reward | ESG
Before Covid-19, many organisations looked to the UN Sustainability Goals to provide them with an environmental and societal purpose, but the pandemic has thrown up new challenges, as well as opportunities to make a difference. Sarah Lardner reviews how ESG can be used to best effect within the executive package.
Below the surface: why deeper dives on data are needed to get to the bottom of Gender Pay Gap issues
Gender Pay Gap | Gender Pay Reporting
The good news is that latest earning data shows that overall, the gender pay gap is in moving in the right direction. But behind the headline figures, and as the impact of Covid-19 starts to bite on the labour market and employment, it is reasonable to hypothesise that the downward trend may not continue in the same way. Judith Moore discusses why taking a deeper dive into your Gender Pay Gap is vital to making continued progress in closing the gap.
Ethnicity Pay Gap: How to Prepare for Mandatory Reporting
BAME reporting | Ethnicity Pay Reporting
The UK is becoming increasingly ethnically diverse, and with mandatory reporting a likely introduction in the next year organisations simply cannot afford to ignore it and need to put significant effort into collecting this data. So how does an organisation kick start or move the process on? Emer Bucukoglu offers three steps to get you started.
Why job design and workforce planning are key to good employee mental health
Organisational Design | Workforce Planning
Cathryn Edmondson reviews the key considerations in effective job design that can help organisations' maximise job satisfaction and the impact of their other wellbeing initiatives, and therefore make significant strides towards a mentally healthy workplace.