This week Nick Peters focuses on pay and productivity on Shop Floor, in association with the IDG. Nick discusses with Ian McVey, UK Manager at Qualtrics, why levels of productivity are so low in the UK. How can companies keep up to date with with performance, happiness and training of their workers? Sussex-based Dinamiks may have the answer as Nick talks to the co-founder Shirley Barnes. He also looks how the National Living Wage with Charles Cotton, Performance and Reward Specialist at CIPD, and how it will affect small businesses and the self-employed with Microbusiness Champion, Tony Robinson OBE. Nick Peters looks back at some of the issues covered on the show with Lance Gerrard-Wright from IDG.
Guests: Shirley Barnes,Charles Cotton,Tony Robinson OBE,Ian McVey
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Nick Peters hits the shop floor for another packed edition on workplace issues. This week, social mobility, the goal of productive work and enterprise, comes under attack. Nick Peters talks to Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA, about the idea that social mobility could be cruel or even evil. Digital skill levels among young people mean employers are finding it harder to get qualified staff and many young people risk missing out on good jobs - Nick Peters finds out more from Nigel Walsh at CapGemini. The Prime Minister says he wants ex-offenders to have much more support moving from jail into jobs and productive lives. It’s already happening - Nick Peters discovers how from Jane Gould, a trustee of Christian charity CleanSheet. And we head east to Vietnam to meet the "Digital Nomads", young people who are taking the idea of remote working to extraordinary lengths.
Guests: Matthew Taylor,Nigel Walsh,Jane Gould
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Nick Peters talks to one of the UK's top commentators on people management, about the report from The New York Times about the mismanagement at Amazon.
Guests: Philip Whiteley
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Nick Peters talks to Dr Jon Burchell, Senior Lecturer in Management from Sheffield University and Dr Joanne Cook from the University of Hull business school, about the voluntary sector in the UK.
Guests: Jon Burchell,Joanne Cook
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Nick Peters talks to Simon Bates from Jordans Corporate Law, about the modern slavery act and what corporations are going to have to do to help end the use of slaves in the corporate world.
Guests: Simon Bates
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Nick Peters looks into discrimination in the workplace, particularly with regards to pregnancy and maternity leave. To help him find out more on this subject is Will Hadwen from Working Families.
Guests: Will Hadwen
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Nick Peters talks to Joan Kingsley, Co-Author of "The Fear Free Organisation" about her book and the idea of fear in the workplace.
Guests: Joan Kinglsey
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Nick Peters talks to John Timpson about the Timpson Foundation and the relationship between employers and employees.
Guests: John Timpson
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Nick Peters talks about work-life balance and a recent study that shows how companies have downgraded employees well being in the last 5 years. To talk to Nick about this issue is Janice Haddon, founder of Morgan Redwood.
Guests: Janice Haddon
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Nick Peters looks into Dementia in the workplace and what is being done to help manage both people and businesses that it can effect. To talk about this issue, George McNamara Head of Policy and Public Affairs at The Alzheimer's Society joins Nick.
Guests: George McNamara
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