Clear, simply written guidance on leading practice in HR and people management.

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Examines and explains the policies and practices used by high-performing organisations to engage their staff, deliver business objectives and outperform the competition.
Includes case studies to provide a practical addition to the guidance.

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Supporting whistleblowers: What is whistleblowing?

Enhanced by creating seven separate guides on supporting whistleblowers, to help you find the guidance you need. This initial guide explores the law that protects workers who make a qualifying disclosure.
Supporting whistleblowers: Creating a reporting culture

Leading practice guidance exploring the benefits of effective whistleblowing arrangements and how employers can create a culture where disclosers feel confident that their concerns will be dealt with appropriately.
Supporting whistleblowers: Introducing and managing a whistleblowing policy

Leading practice guidance discussing how employers can create and implement an effective whistleblowing policy and procedure.
Supporting whistleblowers: Encouraging and facilitating whistleblowing reports

Leading practice guidance discussing how employers can encourage workers to raise concerns about wrongdoing.
Supporting whistleblowers: Investigating whistleblowing concerns

Leading practice guide discussing how employers can ensure that concerns raised by whistleblowers are dealt with appropriately.
Supporting whistleblowers: Raising awareness about whistleblowing

Leading practice guidance discussing what training should be provided to workers and how employers can communicate effectively about whistleblowing.
Supporting whistleblowers: Monitoring and reviewing whistleblowing arrangements

Leading practice guide discussing how organisations can review and monitor their whistleblowing arrangements to help ensure that they are working effectively.
Preventing bribery: The Bribery Act and its guiding principles

Enhanced by creating five separate guides on preventing bribery, to help you find the guidance you need. This initial guide covers the duties the Bribery Act 2010 places on organisations to prevent bribery and the consequences of failing to do so.
Preventing bribery: Identifying and addressing key risk areas

Leading practice guidance discussing some of the key areas that a risk assessment on bribery should cover and how these risks can be mitigated.
Preventing bribery: Raising awareness

Leading practice guidance discussing the importance of communicating the anti-bribery message to the workforce and how this can be done effectively.

Leading practice guides: The complete list

Our leading practice guides provide strategic guidance on people management issues, so HR leaders can help their organisation be in the best place to meet its business goals. See a full list of our guides here.

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Leading practice guides

Clear, simply written guidance on leading practice in HR and people management.

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New and updated

Supporting whistleblowers: What is whistleblowing?

Supporting whistleblowers: Creating a reporting culture

Supporting whistleblowers: Introducing and managing a whistleblowing policy

Supporting whistleblowers: Encouraging and facilitating whistleblowing reports

Supporting whistleblowers: Investigating whistleblowing concerns

Supporting whistleblowers: Raising awareness about whistleblowing

Supporting whistleblowers: Monitoring and reviewing whistleblowing arrangements

Preventing bribery: The Bribery Act and its guiding principles

Preventing bribery: Identifying and addressing key risk areas

Preventing bribery: Raising awareness

Leading practice guides: The complete list

You said it...

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