theHRDIRECTOR

theHRDIRECTOR is the sole publication focused on keeping HR directors and senior HR managers informed. As an independent and feature-driven magazine, it offers valuable insights. Each month, the magazine delivers thorough HR analysis and effective strategies, helping HR leaders navigate this rapidly changing field. Readers are encouraged to contribute their own challenges and successes, while case studies from major global firms and HR experts present practical solutions to today's human resource challenges.

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Job evaluation - a safeguard, not a luxury

1 week ago | thehrdirector.com | Nicholas Johnston

In today’s financially constrained environment, organisations of all kinds, public bodies, private companies and not-for-profits, are rethinking how they operate. With falling income, rising costs, and growing pressure to reduce expenditure, HR functions are inevitably drawn into conversations about cost savings. Among the areas being questioned is the continued investment in formal job evaluation (JE) schemes.
Why bookkeeping is so key to HR compliance and efficiency

1 week ago | thehrdirector.com | Laura Capon

In an ever more complicated corporate landscape, HR departments are under increasing pressure to keep up with employment and financial law and improve operational performance. By keeping proper financial records in place, the HR team helps ensure accurate payroll, smoother audits and the ability to represent a clear financial picture.
Do all organisations need an Intelligence Analyst ?

1 week ago | thehrdirector.com | Blair Mcpherson

The job of a prison intelligence analyst is about more than listening in on inmates phone calls or watching monitor screens in the hope of catching them deal drugs, fashioning weapons or using smuggled in mobile phones. Most of their time is spent reading 5 by 5 ‘s that is processing and analysing intelligence reports submitted by prison officers. These consists of overheard conversations, tip offs, rumours, gossip and who is mixing with who.
Does AI risk dehumanising businesses?

2 weeks ago | thehrdirector.com | Blair Mcpherson

AI- automated recruitment systems that aim to eliminate any subjective human bias risk overlooking candidates personal skills and contribute to creating a dehumanising environment for job seekers who spent hours crafting a supporting letter or completing the Additional Information section only for these to be over ruled by an AI straight jacket. Call centres and the Gig economy are examples of de humanised efficiency . Every one hates Call Centres even the people that work in them.
Organisations that aren’t working have common characteristics

3 weeks ago | thehrdirector.com | Blair Mcpherson

Organisations that aren’t working have common characteristics , a dysfunctional leadership, poor cohesion at the top, cultures that avoid challenge and leadership teams misaligned on purpose or performance. Often it is not until financial failure that action is taken. By then decline is advanced. The early warning signs (staff turnover, disengagement, poor decision-making, cultural drift) are visible but have been ignored for too long.
Why your nickname at work matters

3 weeks ago | thehrdirector.com | Blair Mcpherson

Ever wondered what your employees/ colleagues really think of you? Well you won’t find it in the 360 degree feedback form they were required to fill in! How ever if they refer to you by a nickname ( behind your back) it’s probably unflattering but accurate. The existence of nickname for unpopular senior managers tells us not only something about them but also something about the culture of the organisation.
Middle managers - some times a bypass is more effective

3 weeks ago | thehrdirector.com | Blair Mcpherson

Yes we require /demand more of middle managers in today’s agile business environment more than basic management skills, more than simply passing on senior managers messages, more than hitting performance targets or achieving budget cuts. But some middle managers don’t want to be more and some haven’t the ability to be more. We can’t simply get rid of all this experience and knowledge, and trust we can find managers who embrace the new middle management leadership role.
The DEI backlash shouldn’t surprise anyone

4 weeks ago | thehrdirector.com | Blair Mcpherson

Ten years ago a company called Rent-A-Minority based in the US posted on the internet offering organisations minority ethnic people for hire whenever they needed to boost their image. You want to enhance your DEIcredentials for your annual report we can supply photogenic black and brown individuals plus smiling Muslim women. The company wasn’t real it was a joke intended to satirise the superficial and patronising way in which many organisations were approaching DEI.
Cost saving overtakes sustainability for travel policy decision makers

4 weeks ago | thehrdirector.com | Jenna Brown

Cost saving now leads sustainability as the top business travel priority for travel policy decision makers, according to research*. The survey of 1,000 UK participants found that two thirds (67%) put cost saving in their top three priorities over the next 12 months, with 39% ranking it number one. This is in contrast to the last five years, which saw greater emphasis placed on sustainability.
What is causing the Gen Z employee exodus?

4 weeks ago | thehrdirector.com | Joe Phelan

Following reports that almost two-fifths of Gen Z plan to leave their jobs, a new study has revealed what managers need to know to motivate different generations of employees.1The survey of 1,000 UK workers* reveals the type of management style that different generations respond best to in the workplace – with the youngest generation of workers set to influence change. Most effective management styles for different generations: Which leadership style do you respond best to in the workplace?