Insights from Youmanage HR
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Fun
Bah, humbug! Managing Absence at Christmas
December can often feel like the nightmare before Christmas for HR managers. …
Wellbeing
4 Steps to Equip Managers to Deal with Mental Health (With Factsheet)
Have the managers within your company ever been asked to handle challenging behaviour from employees, including absences, productivity declines and low engagement, which has a basis in mental illness? …
Management
How are you proactively managing employment risks at the front line?
Sainsbury’s have announced that they are intent on shedding 2,000 jobs in HR and then revealed they’re proposing updates to their HR systems. …
Management
The BBC and Employee Relationships
The BBC couldn’t really have picked a worse time to accidentally send an email to all their staff filled with not-so-positive comments about Vanessa Feltz. …
Compliance
The eradication of tribunal fees: Next steps for employers
It’s no wonder that some people are referring to yesterday as the ‘biggest day for employment law’. …
Engagement
Transparency in Business
In some of our previous articles we’ve touched upon the subject of workplace transparency, but usually in relation to different topics. It seems that it is becoming a theme amongst what we write. …
Management
Why Uber and Deliveroo may be missing the mark with HR
The last few months have seen a whirlwind of HR-related issues surrounding gig economy companies such as Uber & Deliveroo, as the number of UK workers on zero-hours contracts is approaching 1 million. …
Management
10 Steps to Empower Managers
Unfortunately, there is no simple overnight solution to this, as it's not just a case of sending managers on a 3-day training course or setting up an intranet site and assuming that this will suffice. …
Management
What prevents line managers from being effective?
Research shows that good people management has a positive impact on profitability but does it mean it's a top priority for line managers who are overloaded with time-critical operational tasks? …
