Training

As management science grows ever more sophisticated training has become inextricably entwined with performance management and undertaken largely by line managers with a subsequent reduction in external training. It does not matter if your employment polices are state of the art, if training is not given to staff at the appropriate levels in their use and implementation. As the case of Corus Hotels PLC v Woodward and Rushton shows, employers can face discrimination claims from prospective employees who consider the interview process has been unfair. It is not sufficient to have an impeccable equal opportunities policy if all staff from telephone and reception staff to the very senior managers are not made aware of equality issues. You must ensure that everyone involved in the recruitment process, not just those directly involved in HR, fully understand the implications of the Discrimination legislation. In fact this applies to most aspects of personnel management see Discrimination


Seminars

We can provide training packages for companies’ HR departments or management. The training will usually be accompanied by a Power Point presentation and course material, together with case studies and practical exercises. Numbers can be as few as 5 or as many as 20. Training can be designed to deal with specific shortcomings identified in our audit process as well as areas that may be of particular concern to the company management. In the past we have provided clients with tailor made training packages on such topics as:

  • Age discrimination

  • Anti Bullying and Stress management procedures

  • Conducting effective disciplinary and grievance investigations

  • Implementing the statutory disciplinary and grievance procedures

  • Managing tribunals successfully

  • Performance Review

  • Recruitment and how to avoid discrimination


Employment Relations’ next seminar will be Managing Conflict in the Workplace in March 2008 at the St Lawrence Cricket Ground in Canterbury.
Full details of the course can be accessed here.

For the lawyers amongst our readers, the Solicitors Regulatory Authority now insist that firms must have someone qualified to supervise (Rule 5.02) which entails attendance or participation in a course of learning management skills. This day's workshop will attract five accredited hours.


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