This collection features original articles on diverse HRM topics, offering critical analysis and insights to enhance understanding and encourage informed discussion.
When referring to vacancies, many use the terms 'job' and 'role' as a synonym of each other. There is a nuanced difference. A 'job' is an organisational function of defined tasks, duties or activities. A 'role' is the part played, emphasising specific...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Relationships are complex, especially regarding the employer/employee dynamic. First impressions, words spoken, actions taken, and tone used—every interaction shapes behaviours and norms—sometimes contentiously. For this reason, people professionals scrutinise workplace behaviours and practices. Every conceivable, all too human, behaviour plays out when people come together in the...
