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Discipline and fear as innovation aids?
For the last three months I have been working with groups of public sector managers in northern England on the people aspects of implementing change, or 'cuts' as most of them tell me it is more honest...
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Meritocracies? Be careful what you wish for
OK, so your organisation has a reward strategy and philosophy that emphasises paying for performance and progression based wholly on merit, a key objective of the reward agenda in most organisations,...
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A tough fight every day
I had a severe attack of reward management schizophrenia this week. UK HR and reward professionals need to make sure they are not creating the same uncomfortable situation in their own organisation.At...
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HR should trust its gut reaction on ‘red tape’
Last week’s high quality Labour Relations Conference organised by Eversheds provided an excellent opportunity to assess the current employment climate in the UK. And the climate inside the venue at the...
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Rewarding sales performance or service values?
With yesterday’s results of the strategic review at Barclays being well received by the media and investors, new CEO Anthony Jenkins already seems to be having a powerful influence on the culture and...
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Pay inequality: Let's share what they have
Duncan Brown asks how employers can get the best bang for your buck on reward"We want what you have." So read the threatening letters arriving on the door mats of the wealthy residents of a Lambeth...
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Growth explained by job cuts? The focus is all wrong
Duncan Brown says that HR must snap out of its tunnel vision on efficiency savings to support more sustainable growth'Stocks Roar Back!' trumpets my City AM front-page on the morning of the 8th of May,...
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It’s time to show that we’re all in this together
Andy runs the apple stall at our weekend local market. His day job is as the security manager for a posh London hotel. Or I should say ‘was’. He got told a couple of weeks ago that his job was being...
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Paying people their just deserts
We heard a lot before the last general election about ‘fairness’ in society, with the manifestos of all three main political parties positioning themselves as its standard-bearer, and the original...
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Breaking the cash bonus addiction
“Total rewards? They want the money!” growled a colleague who works with financial services firms at my mention of how other companies are trying to motivate and engage their staff when the finances...
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Local pay: let’s not go there
The trouble with getting older is that you start thinking you have seen it all before. And just sometimes you have.It is no surprise that Chancellor George Osborne is reportedly bringing forward...
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Give employees a voice
Mike Emmott from the CIPD, Paul Gollan from the LSE and Stephen Perkins from the University of Bedfordshire once again produced an excellent conference on ‘Getting value out of employee voice’...
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What kind of workplaces are we building for our children?
Do you ever look at the title of People Management as you unwrap it and think about what it means? Catching up on the latest issue last weekend and the regular e-updates I receive hardly suggests that...
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Overdoing the austerity message
The international economic debate about how best to emerge from this awful depression seemed to take on a new tone last week, despite continuing market falls, worries over Spanish banks and further...
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The solution for economic growth is to pay employees more
The welcome fall in UK price inflation reported last week does not disguise the economic reality that with average earnings growth remaining low, most of us are still suffering falls in our real...
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Lifting the Drains on Pay
Last week’s Channel 4 programme, ‘Show me Your Money’ on the experiences of the staff at Pimlico Plumbers, certainly made interesting – and for HR professionals, thought-provoking – watching....
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HR should focus on enthusiasm, not efficiency
It was exam results time in the Brown household this summer, with one daughter receiving her A-level grades and the other her GCSE results. I told both girls – as inter-sibling tensions started to...
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Who’s responsible for addressing inequality?
Inequality is the “defining issue of our time”, said Barack Obama last year, in a speech echoing Theodore Roosevelt in 1910.Last week’s news that FTSE 250 executive pay had grown by “only” 3 per cent...
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HR should trust its gut reaction on ‘red tape’
Last week’s high quality Labour Relations Conference organised by Eversheds provided an excellent opportunity to assess the current employment climate in the UK. And the climate inside the venue at the...
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Where is HR on Low Pay?
The impact of low pay on staff engagement should be a key concern for HR, argues Duncan BrownI went to a fascinating and important seminar this week on The Agenda for Tacking Low Pay, organised by the...
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