They’re hard working, they put in the hours, no one doubts their commitment. Pity they‘re useless.
Their diary is full of meetings from early morning to early evening. Their mail box is full. They are too busy to do anything.
Why are you attending all these meetings? Why do you have so many emails ?
What was your contribution ?
It’s called hiding in plain sight.
And if you’re seen as...
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05 May 2024 - 14:46
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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...
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30 Nov 2023 - 14:56
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....
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27 Sep 2023 - 12:56
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...
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27 Jul 2023 - 11:03
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...
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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...
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02 Sep 2022 - 15:50
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...
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03 Apr 2022 - 09:50
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...
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15 Mar 2022 - 11:21
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?...
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10 Jan 2022 - 09:46
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...
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14 Apr 2021 - 21:30
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...
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08 Jan 2021 - 11:21
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...
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13 Aug 2020 - 11:32
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...
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09 Jun 2020 - 09:53
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,...
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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...
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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...
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19 Feb 2019 - 13:59
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...
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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...
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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...
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07 Jul 2017 - 10:09
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...
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