The mental health of your employees can be severely impacted by workplace-related stress. To ensure your team are working effectively, it is essential to have a firm grasp on the potential areas which may lead to stress for your workforce. It has been estimated that...
Whilst transparency around mental health has improved over recent years, there are still many stigmas attached to it. It is not simply a case that ‘If you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist’. Mental Health Statistics Measuring and identifying mental health concerns within your organization may be...
At Altum HR we are passionate about improving mental health at work and encourage all of our clients and partners to open up conversations about mental health in their workplace. Because although as a nation we are much better at talking about mental health, on...
What exactly is 'Capability'? If you are considering an employee’s ‘capability’, you are thinking about the job they are employed to do and the knowledge, experience and ability they have to complete that job to a satisfactory standard. If an employee is not performing in an...
Employers and employees often have mixed feelings about appraisals and self-evaluations. For the employer it can be a source of extra work in an already busy schedule and for the employee unless your appraisal and self-evaluation process is useful, it can often feel like a...
Since the 1970s, we have seen an ever-evolving world of employment and management relationships. From the height of Union strength in the 1970s to the individual case increase of the 00s, we can see the dynamic change of people feeling more comfortable in challenging conflict directly...
Today (8th March) is International Women’s Day and so for today, and the rest of the month we’d like to discuss what this day is really about. The hashtag for International Women’s Day 2019 is #BalanceforBetter because this year the focus is on creating a more...
According to the gov.uk website “Flexible working is a way of working that suits an employee’s needs, for example having flexible start and finish times, or working from home." It seems, however, that what constitutes flexible working differs significantly between employers and so is not that...
In a 2015 survey by CIPD, it was revealed that a quarter of employees complained of a ‘lack of investment in Learning and Development departments due to a lack of insight and understanding from senior management.’ In a more recent report by Opinion Matters on behalf...
Founded by human resources and employment law consultant Josie Broadstock, Altum HR specialises in culture and change management for UK businesses. Unlike many other ‘cookie cutter’ human resources consultancy firms, Altum HR treats every business as a unique enterprise, taking into account individual company cultures and...