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Don't be a horrible boss: Let your employees develop

Here's how to look after your staff better, from providing learning opportunities to giving new recruits time to adjust. 

News

Building on a year of ten times growth

As companies take on an ever more global approach, and encounter new obstacles, MOVE Guides is building out a proposition to take advantage of this and secure its own success.

Human Resources

How to make the most of the induction process for new employees

Sarah Mandeville, recruitment manager at Gekko, gives her tips on what must be done early on to ensure new staff are welcomed and then retained.

Human Resources

The identity challenge of the migrant workforce

In a country where a large migrant workforce can both empower and cause issues, John Lord, managing director of GB Group, examines what must be considered by employers.

Opinion

Zero hour contracts – a love or hate relationship

With a lot of negative press emerging about zero hour contracts, what do entrepreneurs and business leaders really think about the practice?

Human Resources

Performance management is all year round, not just for Christmas!

Lucinda Carney, occupational psychologist and founder of Actus, looks at how employee performance should be managed and mapped.

Human Resources

Dealing with problem employees

Whether you're faced with a personality clash or poor timekeeping, dealing with staff problems early on can save stress.

Human Resources

Dismissing an Employee – In the firing line

Dismissing an employee is never easy, and inflexible employment legislation has been blamed for making it even harder. GrowthBusiness asks business owners and employment experts about the rules of engagement when showing someone the door.

Human Resources

How to avoid unfair dismissal claims

Most businesses have at least one employee who doesn't do his job but is never shown the door. Directors frequently bemoan the fact that it is almost impossible to get rid of unproductive staff without paying through the nose, writes Caroline Doran, head of the employment group at solicitor Rooks Rider.

Human Resources

Employing older staff

With average life expectancies increasing, birth rates falling and the pension system under more and more strain, most of us have accepted that we will be working further into our old age than previous generations.

Human Resources

Q&A: Employers holding personal details

Our HR dept has stated that it is now a company requirement to submit our passports and birth certificates for scrutiny and photocopies are being held on file. Is this legal?

Human Resources

Employ at your peril

UK and European legislation has ensured that the days of an entrepreneur or CEO being master of his own house with regard to employment issues has long gone.

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Boosting confidence in outsourcing your customer service function to call centres in Africa

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