Purpose – Ordnance Survey was established in 1791 as a paper map maker for Britain's Armed Forces. Two hundred and nineteen years on, it has evolved to a high‐tech geographic data specialist, and the impact of this on its culture, identity and vision has been massive. In 2008 Ordnance Survey...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the key drivers for employee engagement within an organization. It seeks to answer the question: what are the keys to improving the level of employee engagement? Design/methodology/approach – A case study illustrates a strategy for employee engagement...

Purpose – This paper aims to assist businesses of all sizes in employee engagement, attraction and retention, by demonstrating how fundamental human resources (HR) processes can be effectively combined with new technologies to make employee engagement an end‐to‐end practice. Employers know...

Purpose According to the research conducted by the authors, the number one fear of employees around the world is that of becoming obsolete. The purpose of this article is to review five practices that employees can use to stay up to date and what organizations can do to support those practices....

Purpose The purpose of this paper is for employers to learn how to make performance reviews of the employees more efficient and effective. Findings For performance reviews to be effective, they must be conducted in a manner that activates reward responses in the brain and supports repetition –...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain the importance of systemizing managerial support to reduce the strain on human resource (HR) and maximize corporate contributions. Design/methodology/approach The author draws upon 20 years of experience in the fields of law and HR as well as...

Purpose This case study aims to explore how human resource (HR) automation was used to attract stronger construction candidates and simplify remote onboarding, with ASRC Construction Group in northern Alaska specifically highlighted. Design/methodology/approach This is a real-world case study...

Purpose – The functioning of an organization largely depends upon several remarkable components, with the talented employee occupying the central role for the accomplishment of organizational goals. In this context, organizations are making more investment into talent development initiatives,...

Purpose Financial education is about empowering employees to make their own financial decisions. It is about making people aware of the choices available and the course of action they may want to take – so they can be in the best financial shape for the future. Design/methodology/approach When...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide human resource (HR) leaders with a practical, straightforward approach to the challenge of building support (and reducing resistance). Building support for new programs is difficult in many organizations, and the cost of failed change is large. HR...