Complygate Blog

  How important is Swift trust in the new normal? Wi the new normal and the uncertainty that Covid19 has brought us, many companies have had to create temporary teams to do projects or complete other forms of temporary tasks out of their “normality”. Many times, organisations create temporary teams to do a project or complete other forms of temporary tasks. Such temporary teams may consist of people from different locations, different business functions or different departments. Temporary teams may consist of SMEs (subject matter experts) from different areas of the business and deal with problems with higher degree of complexity (high risk and high stake) and often lack any formal structure that enables control, trust, and better coordination. Trust is very important in this temporary organizing of people. However, it takes time to build trust. Temporary teams are usually created either the business is very ambitious and is planning something big or 2) something has gone wrong. In...

Does Free HRMS Software Serve the Purpose? Does a Free HRMS Software serve the purpose? What free HRMS softwares are on the market, and are these the right choice for your organisation? HRMS software comes in different shapes and sizes, which is to say that they offer a variety of customizable suites to serve different requirements depending on organizational objectives and priorities. Pricing is one of the most mandatory aspects when choosing an HRMS software, as it gives an idea about the software’s complexity, its features and its long-term viability and applications. There are hundreds of innovative, modern HRMS software available in the market today, many of which provide transparent pricing options, for a variety of HRMS packages, on their websites. A human resource management system (HRMS) is a platform which merges core and strategic HR tasks and objectives into a single easy and comprehensive solution. HRMS solutions have two major benefits over old-school HR documentation: Fi...

Employee engagement in the new normal With the new normal, and the announcement of a new Lockdown in the UK on the 5th of January, driving employee engagement and motivation has become a key focus area for HR professionals. Learn what are the key factors to employee engagement in the new normal on our last blog post. Click here to read the full article.

Diversity At Work: What Is It And Why Is It Important? Diversity At Work: What Is It And Why Is It Important? © - Complygate, Jan. 2021 Professor Chris Rowley Kellogg College, University of Oxford & City’s Business School, University of London The topic of ‘diversity’ at work is an important issue for businesses and management as well as practitioners and policy makers for a variety of reasons. There are both ‘push’ and ‘pull’ forces within these factors. These range on a spectrum from the minimalist - just doing the bare, legal compliance, to business strategies and opportunities, such as marketing, enhanced sales as well as PR image, to better decision making and even contributions to the bottom line, financial returns and enhanced corporate performance, all the way through to moral and ethical reasons. An initial issue concerns the concept of diversity itself in terms of meaning, definition, coverage and measurement. Exactly what is meant by diversity, where and how is it gauged...

Key Core HR Competencies for Future Core HR Human Resource functions are constantly reinventing themselves with time through new visions, strategies, processes, technologies and systems. However, sustenance of transformation of the human resource functions requires the HR professionals to develop and implement a new set of competencies required to fulfil the transforming roles and responsibilities. Depending on the factors which are most likely to influence the future of HR, experts propose a competency model which encompasses both generic and specific HR competencies for general and specialised roles and businesses, respectively. Core HR is a blanket term that constitutes the basic functions of an HR department. Core HR functions include recruitment, payroll, administration, training, compliance etc. Alternately, core HR also encompasses Human Capital Management. Core HR also includes personnel information for candidate employment and administration as well as organizational data. The...

Performance Management System: Has Covid-19 made the broken system worse? Performance Management Systems have been criticised for decades, as new practices and use of technology have failed to bridge the gap. However, the management of employee’s performance remains one of the biggest challenges for line managers and leaders in this new normal. 35 years ago Edwards Deming described the idea of evaluation of performance, merit rating or annual review as alluring, and the result of the process is exactly what the word means. Many other followed Edward Deming and got on the bandwagon as performance reviews are not done often enough or too often managed poorly. Constructive and unbiased feedback is like finding water on mars. Covid-19 has changed business models, workplace, and the workforce needs to adapt, so how we evaluate performance needs to be carefully considered. It is especially important to plan for the competency development for the new normal. Organisations invest mountains of ...

HR Software and Need of HR Systems for SMEs What is an HR Software? HR software constitutes of an automated recording and data management system that eases the management of official information and HR processes. HR software optimizes data handling processes of all the data within the organization and automates HR-related processes and tasks. This helps to keep the organizational database orderly and makes audits seamless. HR software is a boon for HR staff as it automates HR tasks and thus saves valuable employee time which can be better spent in making strategic organizational decisions. Alongside, HR software also assists with HR processes for gap analysis to result in better planning, management and improved decision-making. Learn more about here.

HR Software – Value Proposition In today’s world, there is an extremely high pressure on HR to create and add value to an organization. The markets and business environments are very complex, and the fulfilment of contemporary business requirements demands a robust yet flexible approach that can move with changing circumstances. With changing scenario, however, processes are created, identified and monitored on HRM portals within an HR Software as they make for seamless creation of documentation and instant communication of the same to all key stakeholders, line managers and team members of an organization. Read more here.

  Managing Zoom Fatigue Video calls are often understood to be exhausting and draining. Upon pondering, the reason understood to be behind this happens, in part, to be the consistent focus that we put on official video conversations while absorbing information from team members and managers. These calls also require the participants to stare directly at their screens for extended periods of time without doing anything such as blinking or mental breaks, and this causes fatigue. This is much more common than what one would think at first. Team members feel more exhausted at the end of a long workday characterised by extended video calls. Unsurprisingly, the malapropism “Zoom fatigue” has kept on popping up on social media and other communication mediums during the last few months. Read more on our blog post.

  How use of technology can connect a fragmented workplace? We are in the times of a fast DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, which with Covid19 has accelerated even more. Remote work, new generations incorporating in the professional market (freshness and new ways of approaching problem-solving), constantly-changing environment… A strong online HR management system is key to stay consistent and ensure that all employees stay connected and work within the same goals. Read more here.

Hiring a Pre-employment Screening Company Learn about the importance of counting with a robust Pre-Employment Screening solution for your company, and what are the key features that you should look for before you make any choices. Major global job markets have largely become candidate-driven. Major impetus is on the candidates and employees who are given a number of choices for various organizational roles at hand. With this immense ecosystem churning up the critical needs for the right resources, employers and headhunters feel the immense need to attract the best and right talents. This has made its imperative to conduct pre-employent screening checks for prospective candidates to prevent falsified profiles and other possibilities to creep into the system and thus harm the economy in a number of ways. What Pre-employment screening service does your company use at the moment? We’re reading you! https://www.complygate.co.uk/blog/hiring-a-pre-employment-screening-company

Conducting Reference Checks for Prospective Candidate Reference checks are conducted during the Pre-Employment Background Checks of the aspiring candidates to a job offer in order to understand the candidate’s Work Capabilities from previous employers. Acing interviews does not mean candidates make the cut for designated roles in organizations yet. Integrity and compatibility of a candidate are very important character traits, a great deal of which can be learned from previous employers by making and obtaining reference checks. Find out how and why to perform reference checks for prospective candidates on this blog post.

Top 15 Advantages of a Centralised Background Screening Online Portal The key to Background Screening is for the program to be Centrally Managed, mitigating risks, augmenting and strengthening compliance, and providing a seamless and a robust end-user experience. The job markets associated with major economies of the world have greatly become candidate-driven wherein job seekers are provided many choices for skilled roles. This further requires the employers to find new ways to ensure and maintain better candidate experience and employer brand, which can ensure attracting best and right talents. Simultaneously, background checks of candidates are extremely important to prevent fabricated falsifications and memberships and any other possibilities which can lead to harmful consequences for the economy. You can find out about the 15 Advantages of a Centralised Background Screening Online Portal on this blog post.

  HR Roles for Guiding Future Workforce We all know how Covid19 has dramatically reshaped the economy and the Labour Force, and that means changes to HR Management on the companies as well. New HR Roles such as “Director of Wellbeing” or “HR Workforce Strategy Director” are emerging to stay. Learn more about it on this blog post .

Technology in the Recruitment and Selection of People in the post-Covid-19 Context Check out this article written by Professor Chris Rowley where he brilliantly analyses the use of technology in the recruitment and selection of people during the current Covid19 situation and the post Covid19 era to come. Grab a coffee and enjoy this brilliant essay.  https://www.complygate.co.uk/blog/technology-in-the-recruitment-and-selection-of-people-in-the-post-covd-19-context

  Working From Home - Don't Be A Slave to It Organizations worldwide have switched to and improvised remote working methodologies to combat the spread of the Covid-19 infection. Many organizations have even gone to the extent of developing their proprietary remote working software to enable their employees to track and monitor their work progress.  Remote working has immediate advantages and universal appeal. It avoids employees having get up early to change, undergo long, tiring commutes, work in the office while being constantly monitored, etc. But there are some downsides to this approach. Since the inception of the remote working approach, a minimum growth of two-to-three times has been recorded in the volume of official online meetings. Organizations ought to enable and empower people by making them own their circumstances through intermittent breaks from their workstation, and not make them spend more and more time on the laptop. Read More