Why do Human Resources/Employee relations support Bad Managers in the Work Place

Time and time again, we have all seen the situation whereby Human Resources or Employee Relations are supporting bad managers in the public sector and private sector. Even if the manager is wrong they will still give their fullest support for the manager. I do think that the government needs to do a little bit more to support the employee more rather than supporting bad leadership.

Ideally, good managers are sensitive to the needs of people, understand people management and the dynamics of team work coupled with good communication.  These are the basis to good team building and team work productivity.

Often managers can single people out obviously of the team work environment and use their power to discredit other members of staff. What the government can do is to provide a 3 monthly survey to the employees about their manager and submit to human resources or employee relations.

This this tool, you can see whether the manager has treated employees right, whether the manager has driven motivation towards them, whether their written communication is objective rather than subjective, whether their behaviour is geared towards harassment or bullying. 

This type of local survey would help managers to project the message across in a professional, sensitive and polite way coupled with being conscientious . All the statistics could be gathered and then entered into some league table of the best managers with gold stars attributed to them and the worse managers could be investigated in terms of their, potential future bullying and harassment, tactics and approach to members of the team.

More localised published surveys towards managers could be the answer in reducing the number of bullying and harrassment, poor productivity and performance and high sickness rates of employees in the workplace.

Generating New Female Friends for the new year!

Femalefriends Hey, its still the new year and London can be really dry and boring at times... sometimes it is just too quiet in London because every one is so busy with their time i.e. work, life, studying, projects, etc you name it... sometimes as you get older your circle of friends become of great importance to you especially when you need support and guidance through various aspects of life.

Just browsing around, i stumbled upon a new website called www.femalefriends.co.uk, based in london, its a female to female friendship website geared towards the kind of people who have just moved, married women with children, friends in need of support if things are not going well with boyfriends, husbands, work, harrassment, bullying etc.

Ideally, it is good to generate different circles of friends for different things, i.e. sports, holiday, learning topics team i.e. poems, law, counselling etc to widen our social circles.

If you want a girls night out to clubs, pubs, restaurants, comedy clubs, hey, this is the website to be with.

Femalefriends

Dry Skin in the winter

Dry Skin in the Winter months

Have you noticed that soon as it hits October/November your skin becomes really dry and you start to get all sorts of  spots associated with the cold and as soon as the cold goes your skin reverts back to normal.

Apparently research indicates that the lack of ultraviolet ray, (sun) on the skin encourages organism/fungus to grow more quickly. Even if fungal spores are left in your skin it will lie dormant in hot sunny weathers( in other words you will not see any spots) and then suddenly sprout out when its cold.

Ok, when it is cold like in October, i have tried to use various types of creams which have helped but want to tackle the underlying root of the problem. Do i then go for artificial ultraviolet sun-ray treatment (sunbeds) more in the winter and early spring? or do i continually use some sort of bleaching cream or skin reducing flora cream to constantly get rid of that top surface and then stop in the summer and then resume again in the winter.

Do i avoid wearing the same clothes that caused me to have spots from last winter, would our clothes be infected with the juice of the fungal  or chickenpox spots?

If so how can we wash our clothes to get rid of these spores? I think it would be best to just throw it away if the cloth is causing you much itch.