16 mins 33 secs Reconstruction of an employment tribunal. Maria’s firm sacks her. She claims unfair dismissal. But what will the employment tribunal decide?
13 mins 30 secs Guide to the laws governing how businesses treat employees. Key topics include sexual equality, discrimination, ACAS and employment tribunals.
11 mins 20 secs Companies try to motivate workers by involving them in their success – but does this work? Examples include teamworking, empowerment and worker-owners. [wpdm_package id=’5285′]
14 mins 19 secs Motivation is key to productivity but how do you motivate people? A guide to key theories, from Taylor, Mayo and Maslow to Herzberg and Drucker.
10 mins 16 secs Potentially an appraisal can bring benefits – but a bad one can be worse than none at all! Employees explain what happens in the real world.
12 mins 21 secs Appraisal involves assessing an employee’s performance over a period of time. But how do you get it right? Shouldn’t staff have their say, too?
CLIP 59 Human Resources Strategy: An Overview 14 mins 20 secs You need a strategy for managing people – but what should it include? What’s meant by “soft” and “hard” HRM? Why do strategies so often fail?
10 mins 00 secs Two experts in watch manufacture show how they create some of the most exclusive products on earth. An inspiring example of the “job” production method.
9 mins 16 secs A tour of a green hotel. A model of sustainability, Hafod Elwy Hall generates its own energy, makes use of local suppliers and recycles everything it can.
10 mins 48 secs Tourism marketing and management in the Snowdonia national park, Wales. Sian Jones of Gwynedd Council explains how traditional techniques are changing.
11 mins 31 secs Every year 300,000 people come to Nepal to trek in the famous Everest National Park. But with them come deforestation, soil erosion and piles of rubbish.
10 mins 33 secs Alaska’s sleepy fishing villages all but died when its gold rush ended. Now there’s a new boom – cruise ship tourists. They bring money but problems, too.