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Blair McPherson
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06 Apr 2024 - 14:57

null Resenteeism

Not  every one is lucky enough to love their job but it can’t be good for an organisation to have significant numbers who hate it! Lack of job satisfaction, low morale, a stalled careers, frustrated ambition and jaded, disillusioned professionals. These are concerns for HR as much as individual line managers.  Resenteeism that’s how the Guardian news paper recently referred to the... See more
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Blair McPherson
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30 Nov 2023 - 14:56

null Bad Bosses cause losses 

To: All managers email From: HR  The organisations response to the current jobs market is to put the emphases on retention over recruitment. Keeping employees happy is now paramount. The biggest factor in job satisfaction is a good relationship with the boss.   Your relationship with your team members is crucial to the organisations smooth journey through the current choppy waters.... See more
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Blair McPherson
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27 Sep 2023 - 12:56

null managers don’t want to be seen as a soft touch 

The policies are progressive, very much in tune with taking employee mental health and well being seriously, but they are not being made use of. At first HR thought managers were simply unaware of the policies so they ran an awareness campaign. The resulting enquiries revealed managers thought it was HR who decided if an individual fitted the criteria. Then there were managers ringing up HR to... See more
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Blair McPherson
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27 Jul 2023 - 11:03

null Dealing with grief and bereavement in work 

There is always a joker in the pack. The team comedian who interjects flippant remarks into the team briefings. Irritating if you’re the boss, amusing if you’re not. But this joker is not a clown but a gifted professional who often demonstrates unique insight. True they are not impressed by their new line manager and some of those interjections are a veiled criticism . Some one who often feels... See more
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Blair McPherson
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02 Nov 2022 - 16:24

null Bad Organisations

I like working for my boss. I like the people I work with. I like the work I do. I don’t like the organisation I work for. It use to be said that people leave managers not organisations. Recently I get the impression things are changing. People want to work for an organisation that they can like. It may be one that is socially responsible, one that is not all about profit , one that... See more
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Blair McPherson
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02 Sep 2022 - 15:50

null Cost of living crisis 

There are reports of employers giving their staff hardship grants, low cost meals and vouchers to buy their children’s school uniforms. Others have set up food banks, provided salary advances, are allowing employees children to eat in the staff canteen for £1. and subsidising public transport costs.  But if an organisation needs to set up food banks for it’s employees shouldn’t it... See more
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Blair McPherson
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03 Apr 2022 - 09:50

null The Macbeths as CEO and Head of HR 

In some organisations HR doesn’t have a seat at the top table. In many organisation HR don’t feel they have the status or influence their expertise and contribution warrants. But this isn’t about those organisations this is about what happens when an ambitious new chief executive hires a ruthless head of HR with the intention of taking complete control of the organisation. Board... See more
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Blair McPherson
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15 Mar 2022 - 11:21

null Every one knows what bullying is and that it’s wrong or do they?

Shouting ,swearing, ridiculing and “losing  it big time” not as a one off or isolated experience but as a daily occurrence, a regular feature of the way the manager behaves would be unacceptable and considered bullying in most organisations.  But how hard can you push someone to deliver, how high can you set your expectations and how critical can you be before it is considered bullying?... See more
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Blair McPherson
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10 Jan 2022 - 09:46

null With a little help from my friends 

I read an article that asked the question, “ Is HR ever your friend?” My first thought was this must be a reflection on how HR’s first loyalty is to the organisation despite presenting themselves as the people who will help you if you have a bully for a manager, experience racism in the workplace or fallout with a colleague. Whilst I wouldn’t  tell my HR colleagues,” Your my best... See more
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Blair McPherson
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14 Apr 2021 - 21:30

null The Good Fight, the N word and HR

  Over the Easter weekend I watched the latest episode of The Good Fight on Netflix. It’s a US t.v. series set in a law firm. What’s different  about it is its topical ,political ( US politics ) and likes to confront ethical issues head on. In the new series the small African American Chicago based law firm that made its name by taking on cases of police brutally and its money by... See more
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Blair McPherson
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08 Jan 2021 - 11:21

null Digging Managers out of holes 

Wisdom is the greatest quality a manager can have. The trouble is it is not easily or quickly gained. It comes over time from experience. For the inexperienced manager help is on offer from HR. They have the accumulated experience of many manager over many years. There is nothing they have not come across before - well almost nothing. But be assured they have come across more... See more
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Blair McPherson
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13 Aug 2020 - 11:32

null The best organisation are like enthusiastic gardeners 

 If HR are were to adopt a gardening metaphor it would be weeds  are just flowers in the wrong place.  This is not what a manager who has been asked to consider someone on redeployment wants to hear. Nor is it the response a manager with an incompetent or “difficult” team member is hoping for. The implication in both cases is that the manager just needs to... See more
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Blair McPherson
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09 Jun 2020 - 09:53

null It doesn’t help that people really don’t like HR.

  Human Resource staff make people behave and they don’t like it. They are the ones that tell you that even if you think the jokes are funny, you still can’t tell sexist, racist or homophobic  jokes. This is one function that goes all the way to the top. The HR people, the compliance people, are telling everybody how they have to treat each other and a lot people don’t like it,... See more
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Blair McPherson
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24 Feb 2020 - 14:28

null Gaming the System

Not all managers play by rules. The recruitment procedures are designed to ensure candidates are not discriminated against and managers can’t slot in their favourites. The process is designed to be fair and transparent. However the focus is often on the selection criteria and the interview. The candidates application form is measured against the person specification for the post to... See more
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Blair McPherson
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04 Dec 2019 - 13:48

null The Perfect Crime

In HR they call Passive Aggression (PA) the perfect crime as it involves a variety of behaviors designed to “get back” at another person without the other recognising the underlying anger. I thought they were just “difficult” staff. Now I realise they though of themselves either as victims or some sort of resistance fighters. That is victims of bullying or resistance fighters against... See more
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Blair McPherson
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19 Feb 2019 - 13:59

null Back in time to the 60s

Recent research by the Centre for Social Investigation at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, has revealed that recruitment discrimination is as bad as it was in the late 60s   Despite all the legislation passed in the mean time bias in work place recruitment is showing leaves of discrimination not seen since the 1960s. Herculean efforts by HR to design and monitor recruitment... See more
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Blair McPherson
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01 Feb 2019 - 10:04

null Shrink to Fit

Austerity set Local Authorities a very big challenge how to get smaller without too much pain?    You can shrink people as in the film Downsizing , this solution turned out to have its problems your money goes further but if your income is reduced then low pay, poor housing, inadequate health care and discrimination remain.  You can shrink resources as in the Monty Python... See more
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Blair McPherson
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24 Jul 2017 - 13:39

null The waiting

After the interview comes the waiting. It's the worst part of applying for jobs. I hate it when they say , "we will let you know after the weekend". You spend all weekend going over the interview, did you say the right things, did you come over as someone they could work with, should you have given fuller answers, did you waffle?  It's so hard to read the body language... See more
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Blair McPherson
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07 Jul 2017 - 10:09

null Someone wants your job

  I once worked for a director who was unable to be away from the office for more than a week. On one occasion he booked a two week summer holiday and appeared back at work after the first week having left his family in Wales. This may be an extremely case but it is not uncommon for senior managers not to take their full annual leave entitlement. Many are afraid that a colleague... See more
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Blair McPherson
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10 Mar 2017 - 10:53

null International Women's Day

  The Black Panthers, the Vietnam war, Bob Dylan and the woman's liberation movement, this is the New York scene in the Late 60's early 70's. The story is set in the open plan office of a weekly magazine, the editor, deputy editor and all the journalists are white males, all the researchers are female. It soon becomes clear that the women do all the leg work, come up with the most... See more
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