Last night I caught up with an episode of Channel 4’s ‘Undercover Boss’.  This was the episode where Colin Drummond the Chief Executive of recycling and waste management company, Viridor, spent five days doing...

Andy Crossey, the vice president and head of HR consulting at Capgemini Consulting recently claimed that ‘talent management programmes play a key role in employee engagement’.  So far so good, however he then went...

Board directors can be reluctant to spend money on staff wellbeing and engagement campaigns, but perhaps a boost to financial performance may convince them in the...

Ann McCracken, the chair of the International Stress Management Association (ISMA), recently gave a presentation at the USDAW Union Conference in Blackpool, about personal and organisational stress. Her feedback from the event was that...

Increasingly we hear the message that engaging staff is vital where organisations are under pressure to reduce costs without damaging staff motivation, commitment and wellbeing.  But the advice on how this can be achieved...

Last weekend The Sunday Times published its ‘Rich List’, and billing it as an ‘antidote to all the rich lists, celebrity lists, and wealth leagues’, The Independent on Sunday published its ‘Happy List’.  This...

In one of the professional networking forums someone recently asked why Human Resources is often passive when it comes to workplace bullying.  We believe that no organisation can afford to stick their heads in...

Nick Murray (Marketing Week, Opinion, 7 April) states that brands are ‘wasting millions each year on consumer-facing campaigns that may well be getting the people into the store, but, critically, are not getting the...

In the past I’ve been concerned to find that several organisations’ approach to stress management has been to simply bring in a massage therapist once a month.  So should the recent headline “Massage is...

Investors in People (IIP) have just launched a new award which they say will recognise those employers who’ve developed effective health & wellbeing strategies. To achieve ‘The Health and Wellbeing Good Practice Award’, organisations...