Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
The latest guides on employing and managing full or part time staff effectively as a small business owner or sole trader, brought to you in partnership with Sage. Contains advice on employment law, health and safety at work, recruitment, training, redundancy and disciplinary information, employee rights, workplace regulations, and much more.
This section provides expert and in-depth advice articles on all aspects of staff management and human resources legislation. Our aim is to help UK small businesses to hire great employees, manage them effectively and look after them properly.
Other key topics covered in this employing staff section include team management, employee motivation, legal rights and responsibilities, managing absence, maternity pay and leave, taking on new staff, induction programmes, communication, workplace policies, flexible working, job descriptions, employment contracts and related information.
We also provide information on HR tools, templates and resources specially targeted at SMEs as well as suitable training courses and workshops that can help you get the best out of your staff to make a more efficient, more profitable, happy and productive company.
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Kate Palmer, head of advisory at Peninsula, discusses if social class discrimination a serious problem in the workplace and how employers can avoid social class discrimination in their workplace.
Employing & managing staff
Employing & managing staff
Facing increasing workloads and stress, employees have become frustrated by the lingering operational inefficiencies at work, so much so that it has pushed a third of British workers to look for a new job.
Employing & managing staff
Reward Gateway, has partnered with financial expert and founder of MoneyMagpie, Jasmine Birtles, to uncover insights into the financial worries of the UK workforce, finding most suffer from stress at work.
Employing & managing staff
Reports show that by 2020 millennials will make up a third of the global workforce. Instant Offices take a look into what members of this digital generation really look for in a career.
Employing & managing staff
Remembering to make your colleagues a drink, keeping the noise down in the office and being punctual are some of the most important pieces of office etiquette all staff need to know.
Employing & managing staff
Steve Woods, UK spokesperson for Deputy, shares what companies need to do to prepare for labour market reforms.
Employing & managing staff
Sixty per cent of workers don’t think that their employers are catering for their individual needs, including managing introverts and extroverts.
Employing & managing staff
Finance, local and national government, healthcare, education and hospitality rated the top five most stressful industries in the UK.
Employing & managing staff
Sixty per cent of workers don’t think that their employers are catering for their individual needs, including managing introverts and extroverts.
Employing & managing staff
Finance, local and national government, healthcare, education and hospitality rated the top five most stressful industries in the UK.
Employing & managing staff
Here, Patrick Margetson-Rushmore, chief executive of Luxaviation UK, discusses how a company culture can be built, maintained and developed.
Employing & managing staff
Using big data can prove invaluable to achieving the right hires, as we discover here.
Business Technology
The times of lengthy and complicated recruitment drives are long gone thanks to increasingly sophisticated online options, argues Elaine Lewis of jobmagnet.
Employing & managing staff
Dale Office Interiors spoke to a number of top colour psychologists and design consultants to find out how colour zones can affect productivity.
Business Loans
Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.
Business Technology
To run an optimal business, you must have optimal tech. We explain why you must upgrade your business technology on a regular basis
Investing in a franchise
Starting a new business is an exciting venture. But – especially in well-established industry sectors – a key question is whether it would be better to buy a franchise or go solo.