Course: HR Fundamentals

We mentioned before about the importance of context; HR is a function that needs to be responsive to the needs of the business, its challenges and opportunities. Let’s now take …

Avoiding discrimination When looking for new people to join an organisation HR have a responsibility to ensure the hiring avoids discriminating against all employees and potential job applicants. Aside from …

When recruiting to fill a particular position it can be too easy to have in your mind a picture of the kind person you think would be best. This is …

There are several definitions of employee engagement. However, it can be said that in broad terms, employee engagement brings together job satisfaction, motivation, work effort, organisational commitment, shared purpose, energy …

Performance can be broken down into 3 areas: Mindset – attitudes, beliefs, thoughts and feelings. Environment – the physical and non-physical space around us. Teamwork – working with others. Mindset …

To develop an HR strategy, it’s important to understand the business strategy and how different teams within the business may vary in their approaches to meeting it. For example, an …

Let’s now watch Farzana Kazemi talking about some of the ways that HR can add value to the organisation. Farzana Kazemi, Global HR Director at KEF Holdings, joined a start-up …

As we’ve seen, you won’t go far these days without someone collecting your data. So, if we can use customer data to help us decide what products we might offer …

The spread of COVID-19, commonly referred to as the coronavirus, is an exceptional event that has become a public and workplace priority around the world, not just while a high …