Business Reporter

Achieving buy-in from senior executives is vital for engagement. But is there a risk of too much information? The cliché about the c-suite is that they are numbers people. So the conclusion from plenty of HR specialists hoping to win a serious hearing from leadership about investment in employee engagement is to let statistics do [...]

Interest in employee engagement has taken off during the recession, but translating that into concrete action remains a challenge At first glance the concept of employee engagement has not got much going for it. Its central premise is hardly a revelation: motivated, committed employees work harder and achieve more. It can mean anything and nothing [...]

What is the role of the risk manager when everybody in business seems to be managing risks? The Financial crisis may have turned attention on the issue of financial risk in a rather dramatic fashion, but today hyperawareness of risk in its assorted forms – political, regulatory, environmental, technological and so on – has become [...]

In the wake of the financial crises, Business Reporter looks at advice to help directors navigate future corporate traumas The causes of the financial crisis were complex, but a failure of risk management at board level is at the top of the list for many commentators – perhaps because it is a relatively easy area [...]

Has the financial crisis left UK business overly cautious? Stephen Overell talks to business leaders  

Economic woes drive more workers to commit fraud – and more organisations to bring in risk controls There has been a sharp rise in the most expensive, hard-to-detect and organisationally devastating type of fraud: that committed by employees and management. KPMG Fraud Barometer records a 74 per cent rise in staff fraud in 2011 at [...]

The government wants more firms to consider employee ownership – or at least to issue shares to staff. We really all could be in it together Seldom has employee ownership been so politically fashionable. The Tories want employee-led mutuals and co-ops to run public services; the Lib Dems have turned to the model in their [...]

Does linking reward to performance pay off? With strong opinions on both sides, the argument looks set to rumble on Anyone who thought the financial crisis might wobble the half-century old corporate love affair with performance-related pay might have to reconsider. In fact, with concerns about performance topping executive worry lists, firms are looking to [...]

The market in chief executives is smaller and much less global than is sometimes imagined Is there a global market for chief executives? Of all the justifications for escalating executive pay, this one has perhaps survived the financial crisis and related rewards-for-failure furore better than most. Its logic is simple. There is a global talent [...]

A move into data management and processing has kept one business ahead of the game It has been quite a journey for Leeds-based Communisis. The former general stationery printer has transformed itself in recent years into one of the leading “marketing services providers” – helping clients to improve the effectiveness of the whole process of [...]