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Your expectations of employees can determine their performance at work
The Pygmalion and Golem effects suggest that your expectations of your colleagues and direct reports can have a much bigger impact than you might think.
Want to influence your leadership team? Learn this critical skill
Learning how to ‘manage up’ and influence the leaders in your organisation could win you increased trust and credibility.
Three ways to keep affinity bias in check
We're often drawn to people who look, act and sound like us, but learning how to move beyond affinity bias in recruitment and succession processes is crucial to elevating diverse talent.
Could job crafting be key to retaining top talent?
As our disrupted times force us to do things differently, job crafting – tailoring a role for more meaning and satisfaction – is gaining popularity.
This is what intersectional D&I looks like
Yenn Purkis talks about their lived experience of diversity in the workplace and how employers should think about intersectional D&I strategies.
When should an employee get time off in lieu?
Time off in lieu can offer an alternative to paid overtime in some scenarios. But what obligations do you have to your employees?
What happens when an employee runs out of sick leave?
Personal leave can’t always fit into a tidy 10 days. What should you do when an employee runs out of sick leave? Here’s a quick legal refresher.
How to create a workplace relationship policy
Sexual harassment and relationships with harmful power imbalances should clearly be stamped out in the workplace – but what about consensual romances? Here’s how to create a healthy and effective workplace relationship policy.
HR manager made “artificially redundant” claims adverse action
Can someone be made “artificially redundant”? An adverse action claim due in court later this month highlights the complexities of this scenario.
So you’ve passed someone over for a promotion – now what?
It can be tough to let someone down in an internal hiring process. Two HR experts share advice on walking that tightrope.