People Management Matters

A blog by Phil Brown

Focusing on how to enable great people management within organisations, with a particular focus on how technology can be used to enable managers to be more effective.

Beat the Recession By Empowering Your Managers

2010-01-26 16:17 - 398 reads

The role of line managers has been a hot topic in recent years in HR circles, but the recession is making it even hotter.

Under scrutiny is the question of who should take most responsibility for people management in an organisation – HR or line managers?

As the recession has bitten this year, and businesses have been forced to work more efficiently and reduce their overheads, this question has become more important.

Good people management has a proven direct effect on a company’s bottom line – and in some cases it can make the difference between a business surviving or failing in tough times.

When organisations are making cuts, they need to ensure that employees remain motivated, engaged and focussed on clear business objectives to drive productivity and profitability forwards.

So who will be driving this? Step forward the line managers.

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Hello! And welcome back as we enter 2012, with a busy year ahead of us all. With talk of double-dip recessions, a possible partial or even full break-up of the Eurozone and unemployment rates set to hit nearly 9%, topics such as organisational streamlining, staff resilience and talent management are likely to be on many an HR professional's lips over the next 12 months.

But to lighten the gloom here in the UK, we also have the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and its attendant public holidays to look forward to at the start of June. Followed by two weeks of Olympic Games from 27 July to 12 August and the Paralympics from 29 August to 9 September, each generating their own excitement, but also issues to work through for hard-pressed HR departments trying to sort out the multifarious staffing issues in advance.

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