HR Unpacked
Welcome to HR Unpacked…a podcast about HR workplace issues, where we analyse and then discuss the latest developments in HR & Employment Law that impact both employers and employees. We will unpack the latest legislation and regulations to provide practical guidance on how to tackle the HR issues that are affecting the world of work.
Episodes
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
HRUnpacked Episode 12 - What is Neurodiversity and how can employers support staff?
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Thursday Mar 28, 2024
Welcome to this podcast where we will be discussing Neurodiversity which affects between 15–20 % of the UK population. According to the National Autistic Society, 45% of neurodivergent people have lost or left their job because of challenges due to being misunderstood, with 102 cases being heard at employment tribunals in 2022 where employees said that their neurodiversity was part of the reason for the discrimination they experienced.
We are delighted to welcome Kayleigh Frost who is Head of Clinical Support at Health Assured, WelcomeKayleigh, great to have you on our podcast to discuss this important and increasingly challenging topic.
Friday Feb 23, 2024
Friday Feb 23, 2024
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
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
Thursday Feb 08, 2024
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.
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
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
https://www.bigissue.com/life/regional-accents-disappearing-rob-drummond/
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
HRUnpacked Episode 8 - Quiet Quitting and the importance of employee engagement
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
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.
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
HRUnpacked Episode 7 - Value Based Leadership with Morson Group CEO Ged Mason
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
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.
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
HRUnpacked Episode 6-How HR can support victims of domestic violence
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
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.
Thursday May 26, 2022
HRUnpacked Episode 5 Bitesize - Embracing Real Diversity & Inclusion
Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022
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.
Thursday May 26, 2022
HR Unpacked Episode 5 - Embracing Real Diversity & Inclusion
Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022
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 j.d.lord@salford.ac.uk and we will answer these during the podcast.
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
HRUnpacked-Episode-4-EXTRA - P & O - The-Redundancy-Voyage
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
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 j.d.lord@salford.ac.uk and we will answer these during the podcast.