Follow the leader: Creating an engaging culture

Organisations that promote engaging leadership styles are usually also the most successful. So what can HR do to encourage and support a healthy culture with inspirational leaders? Lucie Benson reports. Read more

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Learning the business side of HR

How well do you know the business processes in your organisation? Andrew Mayo has some advice on how to become a 'business-orientated' HR professional. Read more

• Mistrust of senior managers strangles business
• 'Talent drain' as workers seeks jobs abroad
• Tech-savvy workers do it for free

 

• Case study: Why evaluate training?
• HR tip: Recovering training costs from departing employee
• Colborn's Corner: Business ethics – an HR issue?
• Harness the elearning explosion for organisational gain
• Dishonest employees risk being blacklisted

Ask the expert: Dealing with performance and misconduct
An employee is under-performing and spends most of his time using the internet and email for personal reasons. Esther Smith, partner at Thomas Eggar, and Martin Brewer, partner at Mills & Reeve, advise on what his employer can do about it. Read more.

Events

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Making Leadership and Talent Strategies Deliver - Evening Panel Discussion - 22nd April 2008, 6pm, London. BAFTA

The European Rewards and Benefits Summit 2008 - 20th & 21st May 2008, Central London

HR Business Partner Challenge - 5th & 6th June, Barcelona - 10th & 11th April, Rome

Click here for more information or to register for any of these events.

Editor's note

Welcome to HRZone.co.uk, an online network of 25,000 HR professionals with the UK's most active online human resources community.

We all want an engaged workforce, complete with inspiring and motivating leaders, but what is the best way to achieve it? This week, I examine what it takes to create an engaging leadership culture within your organisation.

Meanwhile, Andrew Mayo explains how HR can become more 'business-orientated'; and Quentin Colborn discusses the tricky ethical dilemmas that HR often faces in the workplace and what to do about them.

Also, Graham Borley emphasises the importance of regularly evaluating the training of your key talent.

Lastly, don't forget to check out our Any Answers page, for the solutions to all your HR questions.

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Kind regards,
Lucie Benson,
Editor

P.S. Take a look at the forward features list to end of June 2008 here.

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