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As an HR practitioner are you able to work remotely/from home?

My husband works 'remotely', he works for a tech company whose main office is in America but they have a small office in Ireland. His company have embraced remote working and appear to have happy and engaged…

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UIN Assignment - Help Required!!

Hello,

 

I'm currently undertaking a small research project for my UIN Assignment, and would be really grateful if you could spare a couple of minutes to complete this short survey in line with the scenario in the…

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Help required - UIN Assessment

Hello,

Could you help me filling in a survey to collect data for my UIN assessment?

I am using City College as the basis, in which there is a high turnover of teaching staff. You get to pretend to be a teacher that is currently…

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UIN Employee Absenteeism - completed by 8th June 2018

Hi All,

Im currently on my UIN module of my Level 5 HRM and im trying to gather information for my study.

I am hoping you lovely people will help me out by answering my 2 minute online questionaire.

If you have the time to…

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Reward Programmes

Hi there

I've been asked to look at implementing a recognition and reward programme. We are a charity so don't have a massive budget but would be interested to hear some low cost ideas for rewarding and recognising employees without being…

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Persistent Body Odour

Hi All,

Have an interesting one here....

We have an individual who has quite persistent body odour.  He's been with us for nearly a year and the Manager has spoken to him about it quite a few times - he admits he doesnt notice it…

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Extra holiday for not taking sick days

Someone where I work has suggested we give an extra days holiday to people who don’t take time off sick for that year.

Personally I thing this is a terrible idea but is there a legal basis that I can use to object (ie…

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Ice breakers for new starter inductions

Good morning all,

I am currently looking into improving our weekly new starter induction and want to include an ice breaker.

Most of the examples I have come across so far haven't seemed fit for purpose.  Our inductions include…

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Employee Engagement/Satisfaction Survey- suggestions please

Hi all,

I'm putting together our company's first employee survey and looking for some suggestions/reccommendations from those who use them- both employers and employees.

We would like to measure engagement, job satisfaction, well…

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Stress at Work - Managers Guide

Hi everyone,

I am looking to develop a guide for managers on how to deal with Stress at Work if one of their staff is affected.

I have found a few resources so far through the CIPD and NHS websites, but nothing that has really…

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Retention and enhanced Maternity

Is introducing an enhanced Maternity/Paternity package an effective tool to increase employee retention within a predominately millennial workforce? 

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Guessing ethnicity based on name

Hi all

Recently, I was asked by a senior member of staff to guess the number of ethnic minorities we have in the business based on employee names.

I was really uncomfortable with this request and refused to do it, but the business…

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