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Improving human capital performance at Co-operative Financial Services
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 08/09/2008
Co-operative Financial Services has used human capital management to achieve a high-performance culture in its organisation.

Improved absence reporting boosts Orangebox's attendance culture
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 08/09/2008
Office furniture manufacturer Orangebox has reduced short-term absences and strengthened its attendance culture by shifting responsibility for absence reporting and recording to its HR staff.

Recruiting and retaining volunteers
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 08/09/2008
The recruitment and retention of volunteers raises many of the same challenges as those involving paid workers, but the solutions may differ.

How employer branding can improve recruitment
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 26/08/2008
Enhancing an employer's brand can help it improve recruitment; here we explain how, using financial services firm AXA's initiative as an example.

Survey: Employee communications
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 26/08/2008
While employers' approaches to internal communication continue to range from the formal to the ad hoc, our survey identifies an increase in newly established consultative bodies and a steady flow of organisations tightening up their informing and consulting arrangements.

Albion Chemicals Group invests in training
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 26/08/2008
Albion Chemicals Group refocused its training activity in order to integrate with its new parent company while maintaining and developing its local customer service infrastructure.

Absence rates in 2007: findings from the main surveys
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 04/08/2008
According to IRS's round-up of the main sources of attendance data, absence levels showed no increase in 2007, but there is still considerable scope for improvement in terms of implementing effective absence management.

Survey: Equal opportunities policies
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 04/08/2008
This IRS survey of equality and diversity policies examines the arrangements in place at 150 organisations and looks at how they are being reviewed in line with legislative developments.

Trade union recognition (4): working with trade unions
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 15/07/2008
The final article in our four-part series on trade union recognition examines the nature of the working relationship between unions and employers.

Trade union recognition (2): union recognition agreements
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 14/07/2008
The second article in our four-part series on trade union recognition examines the content of trade union recognition agreements.

Flexible working at law firm Addleshaw Goddard
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 11/07/2008
Law firm Addleshaw Goddard has set about creating a company culture that supports a wide range of flexible working options to attract and retain talented individuals.

Trade union recognition (1): trade union membership
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 11/07/2008
The first article in our four-part series on trade union recognition examines the extent of trade union membership.

Trade union recognition (3): facilities for trade unions
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 11/07/2008
The third article in our four-part series on trade union recognition examines the facilities provided to trade unions and trade unionists in the workplace.

HR for sale at Broadway Homelessness and Support
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 04/07/2008
A homelessness charity has addressed its funding challenges by developing an external HR consultancy and offering its expertise to smaller agencies.

Absence management in the round at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 04/07/2008
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has developed a raft of policies and initiatives to manage absence and work-related stress, but it believes that the role played by line managers makes all the difference.

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