Key topics: Human resources, Sainsbury's General Mills, Soft HRM, Hard HRM, HR Strategy. What's meant by a human resources strategy? How does it work in practice?

The world as we know it has changed. Even businesses that long declared that working from home wasn't an option have found themselves adjusting and overhauling their business models, since the only other alternative is to close. Despite being thrust into this "new normal," businesses and their displaced staff have risen to the challenges and acclimatized to ways of working remotely. Since then, the idea of managing remote workers has grown and become...

A generations expert and author of When Generations Collide and The M-Factor, teams up with his seventeen-year-old son to introduce the next influential demographic group to join the workforce--Generation Z. At 72.8 million strong, Gen Z (born between 1995 and 2012) is about to make its presence known in the workplace in a major way, and employers need to understand the differences that set them apart. They're radically different than the Millennials,...

"This book is a how-to guide for employee discipline. It contains practical and legal advice, offering strategies that will help managers and HR personnel improve employee performance and avoid legal trouble. This book discusses how to: identify problems early on, decide when discipline is necessary, choose the right response to a problem, engage employees in improving performance, collaborate with employees to come up with solutions, fire employees...