The need for HR audits isn’t limited to transforming your business, but also to stay updated with evolving employment laws and procedures. Regularly reviewing and updating your employment policies helps you stay compliant with labour laws and retain happy and satisfied employees.
Organisational change is common, not just in more established and larger businesses but also in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Leadership starts the change management process, but employees feel its impact the most. A recent study found that 37% of employees are resistant to change due to a lack of awareness, mistrust in management, changes to their roles, and being excluded from decision-making.
When human intelligence is supplemented by artificial intelligence (AI), great things can happen. A recent study has shown that human resource departments are among the most understaffed departments, with 57% of the HR staff reporting working beyond their capacity.
From October 26th 2024, all employers will be mandated to take proactive measures to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace. So what implications does this hold for employers?
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI) have become the cornerstone of modern HR policies and day-to-day operations. At every stage of our working career, we have to make decisions that impact not only us but our immediate team and colleagues, as well as the organisation as a whole. How we make decisions is often based on our experience and values. Although most of us don’t intentionally have biassed thoughts, unconscious biases can easily creep into our decision-making process.
Workplace efficiency is how well an organisation or an employee can complete tasks, projects, and processes with minimal effort, time and resources while delivering optimal outcomes. Before checking your workplace’s efficiency, you need to dig deeper into your organisational challenges and understand what factors are holding you back from achieving what you want to achieve. Your employees are the key to understanding efficiency at the workplace.
If you’re a company owner or executive, you’ll likely admit that you prioritise growing your customer base, improving your services, and increasing revenue over spending time on human resources matters. Although these are unquestionably important, employee development is another essential component that you need to focus on for the sake of your company’s growth.
Although it’s a natural phase of life, menopause is seldom talked about in daily life, especially in the workplace, despite the fact that nearly half of the world’s population will experience this biological transition. Lasting between seven and fourteen years, menopause often intersects with a person’s critical career stage, but the impact of menopause on individuals and the workplace often goes unnoticed and unaddressed.
Whether it’s a once-a-year occurrence or a constant drive, organisations typically recruit to fill talent gaps. And when you are successful in recruiting new hires, the next step is employee onboarding. Every organisation will typically have its own new employee onboarding process. This process will likely vary from business to business and industry to industry.
Lately, there's been a noticeable shift in how we view employee wellbeing in the workplace. Traditionally, a business’ focus was on profit and efficiency, often overlooking the important role of employee happiness. However, times are changing and as a result, this factor is one that cannot be neglected.
In any workplace, the ability to share information, ideas and updates effectively is crucial. Sometimes though, messages can get mixed up or fail to be conveyed correctly, which can lead to misunderstandings, mistakes, and inefficiencies in tasks and projects. Impacting your entire organisation, miscommunication can cause a ripple effect that leads to wasted time and other undesirable outcomes. As such, the importance of effective communication in the workplace cannot be understated.
Personalised stress audits are a valuable tool for identifying and resolving specific stressors that each employee faces, going beyond one-size-fits-all solutions. Instead, they look closely at each employee's work environment, roles and personal challenges.
