Strategic HR

New and updated

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Managing retention: Effective recruitment practices

  Leading practice guidance discussing how effective recruitment and onboarding processes can have a positive impact on employee retention rates.

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  Leading practice guides

  Managing retention: Employee development

  Leading practice guidance discussing the importance of providing learning and development, and career progression opportunities, to help retain employees.

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  Leading practice guides

  Managing retention: Creating a retention strategy

  Enhanced by creating five separate guides on managing retention, to help you find the guidance you need. This initial guide focuses on the steps that employers can take to establish a staff retention strategy and the business case for doing so.

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  How to

  How to monitor labour turnover

  Revised and improved throughout, to focus on practical guidance for HR.

• Date:

  13 November 2023

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Six key takeaways from the 2023 CIPD conference

  The people profession is operating in a "VUCA world on steroids" (VUCA = volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity). So said CEO Peter Cheese as he welcomed around 1,300 delegates to the 2023 CIPD conference in Manchester.

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  Leading practice guides

  Advancing gender equality in the workplace: Why is gender equality important?

  Updated with the latest gender pay gap figures, as reported in the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2024.

• Date:

  26 October 2023

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Five ways to make your employee networks more effective

  Employee networks are valuable platforms for fostering inclusion, amplifying diverse voices and driving positive change within organisations. Inclusion consultant Gareth Buchanan explores five key ways to make your employee networks more effective.

• Date:

  13 October 2023

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  What makes a great employee network?

  Employee networks, also known as employee-led diversity networks, employee resource groups (ERGs) and employee affinity groups, play a pivotal and increasingly prominent role in fostering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the most diverse organisations. Inclusion consultant Gareth Buchanan explores the ingredients for making a really great one.

• Date:

  5 October 2023

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Hybrid working - the "new normal": What we found out

  Director of Epic HR Gary Cookson recently delivered a webinar for XpertHR entitled Hybrid working - How to personalise the employee experience. During the session, he asked attendees a number of questions about the realities of the new post-Covid world, which is increasingly characterised by hybrid working arrangements.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Creating an inclusive workplace for religion and belief: Definitions and the importance of good practice

  Enhanced with further information on religious diversity among different age groups and regions.