The Manager's Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Managing People at Work
September to October 2022
Michael Bear ACIPD
I value empathy and compassion to foster a positive environment and enhance team dynamics. I aim to use my HRM expertise and passion for tech to advance human capital and organisational excellence.
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HRM Strategies
The insights offered from optimal and suboptimal outcomes of 'management influence' versus 'employee behaviour' are timelessly instructive to people professionals. The sources of such information are plentiful, and many originate from academic papers, business analysis, and behavioural theories. The value prospect for people professionals who learn from and incorporate optimal...
Lying Flat: Fad or Fact
The idiom 'Lying Flat' (Huazhong 2021) has come to represent a rejection of perceived professional demand and societal expectation in exchange for a leisurely, nonmaterialistic lifestyle. We are extending to forgoing marriage, having no children, remaining unemployed, and shunning traditional milestones, i.e., buying a house or owning a car....
History of the Working Week
Effective August 2022, full-time employees' weekly average working hours in the UK was 36.5 hours. For comparison, the lowest recorded was 30.3 in 2020 during the pandemic, and the highest was 38.8 in 1997. This data uses a five-day workweek as a fact, but how did we...
Defining Discrimination
The Equality Act 2010 grants legal protection to nine protected characteristics (article here). This means it is against the law to treat people discriminatively at work, in education, as a consumer, when using public services, when buying or renting property, or as members/guests of a private club or association....
Simplifying Payroll Management
Despite the continuing trend of outsourcing payroll functions to accountancy firms, stakeholder expectation remains high that people professionals demonstrate a good understanding of how payroll works. Employees subjected to muddled explanations, delayed remuneration or persistent miscalculation quickly become disengaged. Persistent incompetency can even lead to reputational damages at an Employment...