An examination of the history, principles and current practices around competency frameworks.

Learn how to identify management development needs, explore the options for development, and evaluate management development programmes.

As theories on supporting learning evolve, employers need to be familiar with emerging ideas about learning in the workplace.

What people professionals can do to ensure their organisations are equipped to deal with this threat

Explores what organisation development is, how it has developed, and how it is conducted in today’s organisations

Discover what PESTLE means, and use our PESTLE analysis template and example to understand the external influences on your organisation.

The psychological contract describes the views of the relationship between employers and workers, and influences how people behave in organisations.

A guide to the SWOT framework, process, advantages and disadvantages.

Recruitment and resourcing are about finding the right person for the right role at the right time. Learn about the recruitment process.

Strategic HRM is an approach to managing human resources that supports long-term business goals and outcomes with an overall framework.

A learning and development strategy and policy outline how an organisation develops its workforce’s capabilities, skills and competencies to remain successful.

Learn about the changes in thinking around the psychology of learning styles, the influence of neuroscience, and the models that apply neuroscience to learning.

Learn how to identify learning and development needs at a range of levels, and use the results for better business performance.

Explore how learning and development activities can be measured for engaging employees, transferring learning and their organisational impact.

Employee voice is the way people communicate their views and raise concerns to their employer. Learn about its purpose and benefits, and about ‘whistleblowing’.

Employee communication is essential to employee trust, engagement and performance. Learn how to develop an effective internal communication strategy.

Talent management seeks to attract, identify, develop, engage, retain and deploy people who are considered particularly valuable to an organisation.

Succession planning is identifying and growing talent to fill business-critical positions in the future.

Pay structures give a framework for wages and salaries, while pay progression describes how employees’ pay increases

In performance reviews, an employee’s performance is assessed and discussed with them, to support their development and/or inform pay or other decisions