At that company, where some of our workforce were struggling to afford to eat properly, pouring free booze into empty stomachs led to police and ambulance involvement, embarrassment and notoriety, absenteeism, and a veritable minefield for the HR team in the disciplining process
Read MoreGiven the extent to which we work successfully we other multi nationals, we found the situation surprising, and it left us bemused, puzzled and deeply concerned. Our only explanation is that this has been be motivated by the hiring leader’s need to save face or money or both – she had already had a failed search engagement for this role with another firm, and with the role then being filled internally, was presumably under question as to why she’d engaged us at all.
Read MoreI suspect we lose even more credibility, in the event we undergo a clandestine affair. As the guardians of company policy and procedure, and the champions for people risk - we are expected to be absolutely virtuous.
Read More...more importantly, where does the moral compass of your management team and company lay in making exceptions? (We heard just this week about the new employee at a household brand employer who was sent overseas for a work trip, He suffered a horrific car accident, and wasn't eligible for financial or medical support beyond the first couple of months of his hospital stay because he didn't qualify under the company's policies for employees still in probation)
Read MoreCertainly the party cannot get out of control. Like the Christmas event when Sam took full advantage of the free booze to the extent she was carted off in an ambulance after just 2 hours to get her stomach pumped. Or when police had to break up the fight that ensued between 20 colleagues – for a whole year their management teams had been vying them against each other in “healthy” competition and slanging matches (so it was just a matter of time till that much warring testosterone resulted in fisticuffs)
Read More.....two of the three HR leaders proceeded to receive a job offer with full transparency of their situations to the employer companies; and of these, one wound up accepting the job. One of the three HR leaders will not be welcome to work with our firm in any capacity again.
Read MoreWorkday have come from "out of the blue" having only been established in 2005 (just like an "overnight" pop sensation) but it is markedly noticeable how many of our multinational clients are moving their human resource information and management systems (or Excel spreadsheets) to this solution.
Read More72% of people we talk to have not forewarned their employers of the extent of their work concerns at the time they commence their job search process – no wonder employers are surprised upon receiving resignations!
Read MoreThere may be short term satisfaction in telling your bosses or colleagues what you really think about them, and emphasising this with some colourful insults, but there is nothing to gain in the mid to long term. This is also a good reason to avoid last day drinks – in the emotions that practically everyone feels on their last day, it’s too easy to say the wrong thing with a little artificial courage…
Read MoreHe went so far as to suggest that we'd made up the role, that we didn't know what we were doing, and that the employer would be furious at us for not having effected the introduction. He demanded to know who the other candidates were, and who the employer was so he could check into the validity of a/ the job existing and b/introduce himself to the company directly since we didn't know what we were doing.
Read MoreIf a disciplinary hearing is about how a company deals with an individual then why do we ignore what we already know about that person and their circumstances in order to satisfy the demands of a standard process? What is the cost of appearing to deliberately ignore the individual?
Read MoreWhat do you do when the IT help desk isn’t picking up your call? When the explanation over the phone from the support team just isn’t making sense? When you are struggling to translate the description of a thingy-me-jig to someone on the phone, who only talks tech? When you cannot continue effectively with your work until the tech issue is fixed?
Read MoreDon’t get me wrong. I have an equal respect for men and women in the HR community. I have no grudge to bear. I have an equal number of female and male friends and professional contacts.
But men, in my experience, typically interview better than their female counterparts.
Read MoreIt is worth remembering that in many countries the obligations of an employer towards his or her staff is exactly the same as if that employee were in the office. Checks on health and safety, annual appraisals, remuneration and so on are expected to be the same no matter where the work is carried out
Read More....despite progress in the type of work we do and how we do it, and advances in transportation that enable workers can to come from even further away in faster time, we haven’t really made any real progress on the basic social model of work here/live there.
Read MoreCheck into the job market, properly. It may well be that your skills which were greatly in demand in the foreign country, are not in demand in your homeland.
Read MoreDon’t do most of what Belfort did or you’ll end up in jail or dead. However, the Wolf of Wall Street was a businessman who tried to run his business according to some basic principles which would work well in most commercial organisations
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