Straight Talking. Clear Thinking.
Over the last few decades, HR has been afflicted by bad press. Labelled with questionable misnomers like “human remains,” it’s suffered from employees and board members’ lack of faith in its: Business acumen Financial capability Global perspective Customer focus In short, it’s not been perceived as adding value to an organisation, but rather as a cost. Sweeping changes […]
As HR moves from the operational to the strategic there are going to be changes. HR is now responsible not only for the operational needs of payroll, reward and recruitment, but also for growing the greater brand culture. Culture is of course all-important from a compliance perspective. From Travis Kalanick at Uber to Trafigura dumping […]
Modern slavery is still a huge ongoing global issue, with 20 to 30 million people still estimated to be enslaved in 161 countries worldwide, and 20 new suspected victims found in the UK just this morning. The Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires all businesses with a turnover of over £36 million to publish a statement setting out […]
As a teenager I applied for a job as a cashier at a major high-street pharmacy. The first round of assessment, with compliance in mind, was an online quiz on good practices and ethics. We had thirty statements and had to give a true or false answer to each. One of the statements was: True […]
I have a friend called Ed. He is smart, alert and doesn’t try too hard to be funny. Separate to this, he is a Reinsurance Analyst. No-one knows what a Reinsurance Analyst is, few care to find out. This creates a quandary because he likes his job, it’s interesting and he wants to talk about […]
To anyone who doubts the great pace of human accomplishment, I give you this anecdote: I had to spend a bank holiday reading the works of a 16th century French philosopher to impress a Welsh girl.
