Explores the purpose and evolution of job design, its role in creating good work, and assessing job quality.
Job design is the process of establishing employees’ roles and responsibilities. Its main purpose is to optimise work processes to create value and maximise performance. But, it’s also a key element in creating good quality jobs which benefit both workers and employers.
This factsheet examines job design and its links to work motivation and job quality. It looks at the principles of job design, the role of job analysis and assessing job quality.
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From structures to processes to people, organisations undergo frequent change, and in today’s context, often with increasing complexity. But what role can L&D play, better positioning them as operational partners of change?
Explores the benefits of workforce planning, the activities involved and the stages of the workforce planning process
Understand what strategic workforce planning is and how to do it
Outlines the purpose of pay structures and progression, including the common ways of structuring pay and determining, reviewing and controlling pay progression
Discover why organisational culture is an influential but problematic term, and why employers should focus on organisational climate to more readily enact positive change
Find out what's meant by fair pay, what pay information UK employers must disclose by law and the opportunities pay narratives bring.
This factsheet looks at the policies and procedures employers can put in place around relationships in the workplace, to mitigate risks to the business and their employees