“Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.” , Richard Branson Countries such as Germany, Norway, Sweden and France are in the process of revolutionising the 9-5 workday. Employers ihn these countries report that this is making […]
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Employees are arguably the single biggest asset and resource any organisation has. Disengaged employees, can be the most massive cost factor which debilitates the organisation. Sick leave increases by 20% amongst disengaged employees and productivity drops by 26%. Many other aspects of the organisation such as staff turnover and customer […]
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Having extensive experience of having worked in a corporate environment for 15 years and of consulting to small and medium sized businesses for 13 years, one of the key things I have learned as an experienced grey-beard HR practitioner is that small and medium sized business want a non-corporatised HR […]
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It seems that a new trend has now begun to emerge and which is impacting on the Employee Relations front in South Africa. The trend is that a band of Economic Freedom Fighters T-shirt wearing protesters arrive at the gate of an employer. The size of the “band” of protesters […]
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You might be saying that identifying a performance problem of an employee in the work environment is very easy. You clearly see that the employee is not meeting their targets set for them by their manager or in their performance agreement and then you know that there must be a […]
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A contract of employment entered into between an employer and an employee comes into existence by the agreement of both parties. When an employee resigns their contract they do so unilaterally. There is no need for an employer to accept the resignation inasmuch as the employee has complied with the […]
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Cannabis in the workplace. With the Constitutional Court ruling last week that the cultivation of cannabis and the private/personal use thereof is legalised, what are the implications of this from an employment perspective? Does it imply that the use of dagga within the workplace is now likewise legalised? Analogies are […]
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Talent management …Our modern world of work seems to be increasing in the pace of change and its fluidity with the impact of technology, the internet of things and the changing expectations of employees. The days of regimented job profiles with nicely laid out duties and organisational charts which remain […]
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Employee engagement training courses are a key strategy to ensure success in the marketplace. An indispensable part of an organisation’s talent management strategy is its focus on employee engagement and retention. While employee engagement is not a managerial necessity, rather an important driver of employee performance, achievement, and continuous motivation to […]
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Employee engagement training courses need to be reinforced on a regular basis and the best way to do that is online. There are many platforms that do more than just deliver content and report on learner progress. Here are just a few of the tricks to make their training more […]
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