HR roles and responsibilities
Steve Allan joins us to talk about HR's role in mergers and acquisitions and offers five top tips for getting M&As right.
Every year it's the same: January rolls around and suggested priorities for HR abound. But with teams increasingly stretched, important issues then get cast aside or neglected. Here, as organisations find themselves deep into Q2, we draw attention to three themes that HR professionals are likely to overlook, based on what they have told us in our surveys. But, for the reasons explained here, they really shouldn't!
Hearing that you are supposed to "be strategic" and create a strategy in your HR role can be incredibly daunting. That's probably because you've never been taught what it means or how to do it. Here, Fay Wallis offers clear, actionable steps to create a strategy that adds real value.
The 22nd annual XpertHR survey on HR roles and responsibilities explores how the profession is evolving with respect to job roles, capabilities and responsibilities. It also provides key metrics to understand the composition of the function across responding organisations.
According to a recent survey, 98 per cent of HR professionals said they had felt burned out in the past six months. In this episode we ask: What is burnout exactly? Why is it afflicting so many people working in HR? And - crucially - what can you do to keep burnout at bay?
The 21st annual XpertHR survey of the HR function reports on key metrics for the profession, including trends in the ratio of HR practitioners to employees, as well as key priorities for the year ahead and where HR is spending its time.
Pay settlements have risen to their highest levels for 30 years, but most still fall short of inflation. We look at how the pressure on living standards caused by the cost-of-living crisis means employers are looking at other levers to support employees.
Noelle Murphy, senior HR practice editor at XpertHR, explores the findings from XpertHR's recent HR careers survey including the impact of the pandemic and hybrid working practices on HR professionals and discusses priorities and challenges on the HR agenda.
XpertHR's 20th annual survey of the HR function reports on key metrics for the profession, including the ratio of HR practitioners to employees, HR budgets, HR practitioners' skills and experience and how they allocate their working time.
XpertHR research looks at what brought UK professionals to HR and how they are advancing their careers in the profession.
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