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The Practicalities of Employee Appraisals
How to get the most out of employee appraisals? An effective appraisal system should form a key part of your organisation’s performance reviews. Appraisals look back on past performance and forward to future goals and targets. Line managers will typically conduct performance…
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Reasonable accommodation allowing disabled employees to take up roles
Employers are required under employment equality legislation to consider whether making reasonable accommodations to either the role or the…
What is direct discrimination?
Direct discrimination occurs when employees or job applicants are treated less favourably than other people because of who they are. Direct…
Core values
Can your customers answer this question? If you asked ten different employees, would they all give the same reply? Answers provided by staff…
The importance of employee appraisals
What exactly are the benefits of performance appraisals? How would you justify the use of employee appraisals in your workplace if they are…
Appraisals
With meetings to attend, phone calls to make and deadlines to hit employees will often struggle to find the time to self-assess and consider…
Retention
Having meticulously recruited the right employees, your organisation will only run smoothly if you keep them there. Retention is the work…
What is staff turnover?
A certain amount of employee turnover is a normal part of running a business. Change is inevitable but if it is happening too much, it is…
The importance of teamwork
It seems to be universally acknowledged that teamwork is good for business. Any naysayers are firmly in the minority. If the importance of…
Teamwork
Teamwork allows a group of people to work together to collectively achieve challenging organisational goals. Organisations can foster…
Culture and performance
They’re about evolving your organisation’s way of working and helping employees reach their potential. If you think that sounds difficult…
Disabilities at work
As stated in the Equality Act (2010), it is the responsibility of all employers to make reasonable adjustments in the way in which…
Indirect discrimination
Direct discrimination tends to be straightforward to identify. Direct discrimination occurs when one employee is treated differently because…