HR Unpacked

Welcome to this podcast where we will be discussing the Good Employment Charter which supports all employers in the Greater Manchester region regardless of size or sector, to improve employment standards.

We’re delighted to welcome Ian MacArthur who is Director of the GM Good Employment Charter

Welcome to this podcast where we will be discussing AI and whether it can support HR professionals at every stage of the employee lifecycle.

We’re delighted to welcome Dr Maria Kutar who is a Reader in Information Systems at Salford Business School, Co-Lead of the Disruptive Technologies Research Cluster and a Board member of the UK Academy for Information Systems (UKAIS).

Maria is a multiple award-winning educator with extensive experience in curriculum development and academic leadership. Seeking to inspire individuals and businesses to achieve success through the use of digital technologies, Maria has fostered an understanding of the ethical and societal implications of their actions.

Welcome to this podcast where we will be discussing Accent Discrimination and whether it should be a protected characteristic.

We’re delighted to welcome PROFESSOR ROB DRUMMOND who is Professor of Sociolinguistics, Head of the Research Centre for Creative Writing, English Literature and Linguistics (CELL), and a founding member of the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies.

He has extensively researched on the ways in which spoken language varies between individuals and groups of speakers, and the role that language variation plays in the construction and performance of identity. His book, You’re All Talk: Why we are what we speak explores the enormous diversity in our spoken language to reveal extraordinary insights into how humans operate: how we perceive (and judge) other people and how we would like ourselves to be perceived.

• https://www.theguardian.com/global/2023/oct/08/we-still-make-judgments-from-the-way-people-talk-rob-drummond-decodes-accent-prejudice

The notion of ‘quiet quitting’ has been around for centuries with trade unions using ‘working to rule’ as a means of industrial action. However, there is now a contemporary trend where Generation Z workers are encouraged to do the bare minimum at work in order to avoid burnout, as they 'recalibrate what's important to them' after Covid. In this episode we are delighted to welcome Dr Ashley Weinberg who is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Salford as well as a Chartered Psychologist. He has 20 year’s experience in lecturing, researching and consultancy work, having produced four books on well-being at work and provides a fascinating insight into the psychology behind Quiet Quitting as well as the impact it has on the psychological contract.  

Welcome to this podcast where we will be looking at ‘value-based leadership’

We’re delighted to welcome Ged Mason the CEO of Morson International, Britain's leading manpower services company. The organisation specialises in supplying skilled white-collar staff - engineers, quantity surveyors and project managers - to the aerospace, defence, nuclear, rail, oil, gas and construction sectors. With an annual turnover of 930+ million(TBC), and on target to reach over £1 billion turover, Morson's clients include: BAE Systems, Airbus, Network Rail, Transport for London and the British Nuclear Group.

We discuss values based leadership where leaders draw on both their own core values and the negotiated and defined values of the work organisation for guidance and motivation and is a way of making authentic decisions that builds trust and commitment. 

Welcome to this podcast where we will be looking at how HR can help identify and support staff facing domestic violence

We’re delighted to welcome Sophie Travis who is Counselling Manager at Health Assured, an award-winning employee assistance programme and the UK and Ireland’s largest EAP, giving caring and compassionate support to over 15 million lives.

Welcome to this EXTRA podcast where we are delighted to welcome  Sami Ben-Al who is Vice President, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Wood, a company with 40,000 professionals, across 60 countries and are one of the world’s leading consulting and engineering companies operating across Energy and the Built Environment. Sami talks about how Wood have made meaningful changes to workplace E,D & I and some of the innovative strategies to tackle bias, both conscious and unconscious. 

Welcome to this podcast where we will be looking at the issues of discrimination in the workplace. A new Netflix documentary White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch has highlighted the ongoing issue of how companies are defending their acts of discrimination through blaming abstract forces that impact life, in this case beauty standards, but also structural racism. Organisations that have a top-down system have relied on existing biases but with ever increasing equality legislation and changing societal attitudes what can employers do to ensure they meet Equality, Diversity and Inclusion standards?

We are delighted to welcome Sami Ben-Ali who is Vice President, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Wood, a company with 40,000 professionals, across 60 countries and are one of the world’s leading consulting and engineering companies operating across Energy and the Built Environment.

Send your questions to [email protected] and we will answer these during the podcast.

Welcome to this EXTRA podcast where we are delighted to welcome John Lansdown, a P & O staff member for 15 years who has worked as a sous chef on the Pride of Canterbury and has refused his redundancy terms of £30,000  as well as signing a non-disclosure agreement. John talks through his tribunal claim and why he will never accept the methods undertaken by P & O in terminating his 15 year career with the company. 

Send your questions to [email protected] and we will answer these during the podcast.

Welcome to this podcast where we will be looking at the implications of P & O’s decision to sack 800 staff members without consultation, the affect this will have on staff members & their families as well as the wider implications for employment relations in the UK.

We are delighted to welcome John Lansdown, a P & O staff member for 15 years who has worked as a sous chef on the Pride of Canterbury and has refused his redundancy terms of £30,000  as well as signing a non-disclosure agreement.

Throughout the episode we look at:

• Why businesses are allowed to operate and make tough decisions

Send your questions to [email protected] and we will answer these during the podcast.