Absence
Although employers expect a certain amount of absence, high levels of absence can be disruptive, and expensive. Absence-related dismissals or disciplinary sanctions can lead to expensive claims and therefore it is important that employers handle a...
Bullying and harassment
Bullying is an abuse or misuse of power that may be characterised as offensive, intimidating, malicious or insulting behaviour intended to undermine, humiliate, denigrate or injure the recipient. Harassment, in general terms, involves unwanted c...
Business continuity
Business Continuity Management (BCM) identifies potential threats to an organisation, and the impacts to business operations that those threats, if realised, might cause. A recent report by the Business Continuity Institute in the UK stated that o...
Coaching and mentoring
Coaching is certainly a buzz word in the workplace and with good reason – it delivers great results. The CIPD defines coaching as ‘development techniques based on the use of one-to-one discussions to enhance an individual’s skill...
Competence
The Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of the relevant aspects of competent is: • suitable, appropriate; • sufficient or adequate in amount, or degree; • legally authorised or qualified, able to take cognisance (of a witn...
Corporate manslaughter
The passing of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, to introduce a statutory offence of ‘Corporate manslaughter’ (called ‘Corporate Homicide’ in Scotland) followed many years of promises by the UK Gov...