A-Z guides
Induction
An induction plan should look to ensure the effective integration of employees into or across the organisation for the benefit of both parties. This allows for the smooth the introduction during the preliminary stages of employment, the new emplo...
Information management
Serious breaches of IT security and major losses of customer or employee data regularly feature in the news. Clearly, such breaches of security have a major impact on the organisation affected on a number of levels – from damage to reputatio...
Inspection
There are numerous bodies tasked with enforcing health and safety legislation in the UK. The HSE concerns itself with factories, agriculture, mines and quarries, docks and railways, whereas Local Authorities oversee, amongst others, shops, offices...
Intellectual property
Intellectual property can be a valuable asset. Every business will own intellectual property rights of one sort or another. Intellectual property rights should, therefore, be protected and enforced in order to ensure that they retain their value. ...
Interviews
Arguably the most important stage of the recruitment and selection process is the interview. So it always amazes me how little time recruiting managers spend in preparing for the actual interview, so much so that I once conducted an intervie...
Investigations
The key purpose of an investigation is to discover all the relevant facts and information in a fair, reasonable and objective manner. If a manager is confronted with a situation that needs to be actioned, but fails to carry out a proper investiga...