Workplace Culture and Performance Management

Optimise your working environment and manage your employees to produce greater productivity.

Performance management in the workplace is an essential part of your business’ daily routine. Some duties are mandatory by law, while others help your business with staff retention. Health and safety at work is essential for your employees and business to flourish too, and by actively nurturing your workforce, you can take steps towards ensuring a positive and productive environment.  

In this section, you’ll find ideas to improve workplace culture with tips on management styles and how to spot and prevent any negative patterns. If you have any questions about any news within the HR world, you can contact our friendly team on 0808 501 6651.

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Guide to Employee Improvement Plans

A performance improvement plan, or PIP, is an approach used by employers to help an employee improve

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Performance Appraisal Review Template

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Performance Appraisal Review Template

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What is quiet firing?

You may have already heard of ‘quiet quitting’, where employees do only the bare minimum within thei

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Back to School Support for Working Parents

With the school summer holidays ending in September, working parents will need to re-organise their

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How to Conduct an HR Audit

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HR Auditing

Happy, motivated, and proactive employees are the driving force of any successful company. Ensuring

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Line Management

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Line Management

What can effective line management achieve for your business and how can you increase its impact wit

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The Role of HR Compliance

At Croner, we use the term ‘HR compliance’ frequently because compliance is critical; not just to ru

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How to implement a four-day working week

With flexible working legislation now in place meaning that employees are legally entitled from day

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How to conduct employee 1-1s

Your employees are the backbone of your business, so it pays to know what’s going on in their day to

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Flexible working: Four-day working week

With the Government’s Employment Rights Bill potentially opening the door for increased flexibility

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How to increase employee productivity in the workplace

A productive staff is the foundation for your business’s success, so how can you boost your workforc

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Young people in the workplace

As a new generation starts to enter the workplace there's a good chance that your business will empl

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Soft Skills

You may well have found that employees with great technical knowledge necessary for a job may still

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Dispute Resolution

No matter the size of your business, effectively resolving disputes is an important skill. There are

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What is a Training Agreement?

As an employer you want your employees to reach their full potential. The more productive and engage

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Training and Development

Business owners may be excused for not always prioritising employee training and development. Howeve

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How to Make Team Building Less Awkward

When you look at team building through the lens of HR and health & safety, there are very few ac

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Quiet Quitting – Disengagement or Healthy Boundaries?

48 hours a week as standard. Plus overtime. Oh, and you’re expected to answer your phone on the week

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Courses For Health & Safety

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Staff Training – What, When, Why, and How?

Staff training is key to employee development and progression. If you want your workforce to succeed

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Staff Performance - Management & Reviews

Your people are your greatest asset. They are what makes your business profitable and successful. By

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Women In Leadership

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How to Support Women in Management in the UK

Supporting women in leadership could make your company a very desirable workplace. With the Great Re

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Pulse Survey

A pulse survey can prove a powerful tool to assess the health of your company from within. When used

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[Halloween] Should I Allow Fancy Dress in the Workplace?

Halloween is lurking just around the corner, which means the debate begins again—should I allow empl

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Developing Employee Engagement and Culture

“Culture” and “engagement” are consistently rated among the top priorities for HR and business leade

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What a Four-Day Week Could Mean for Employers

Back in 2020, several cross-party MPs urged the Government to consider legalising a four-day week. S

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Why Looking After HR During a Pandemic is Crucial

We are nearly a year into a global pandemic that has changed so many parts of our personal and profe

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There and Back Again – The Return to Homeworking

Well, here we are again. Many employers were hoping the period remote work earlier this year was a o

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Can I Tell Staff How to Dress for Work?

Employers often implement a dress policy to ensure staff maintain a professional image at work. The

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[Mythbuster] Overtime Makes Employees More Productive

This time I thought I’d tackle a classic—overtime leads to increased productivity. Sometimes it fee

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Five HR Workouts

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Five HR Workouts

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How Employees Procrastinate at Work

No-one spends every second of every working day on the job. Sometimes you have to make a drink, take

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Inclusivity at Company Events

Social events—parties, group outings, or activity days—are a great way to reward your hard-working s

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Employers' Guide to Employee Development Plans

Employees have plans for their personal and professional lives. From getting married to having child

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How to Make Your Workplace Disability Confident

There are 7.6 million people working in the UK with a disability. When it comes to disability, is y

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Office Dogs: Good Idea or Bad Idea?

So, I was going to write about Brexit this month. But we’re not doing that now. It’s been put on hol

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World Religion Day

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Corporate Social Responsibility Guide

Gone are the days when the only focus for businesses was their profit margin. Now, a business’s soci

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How Much Does Employee Turnover Cost Your Business?

A recent Glassdoor survey revealed that almost 35% of hiring professionals expected more employees t

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Staff Turnover: What Do You Need to Know?

Having a high worker turnover can have mean two things: A negative impact on your company’s performa

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Stay Interviews: Find Out Why Your Staff Choose to Stay

Almost half of HR leaders in the UK cited employee turnover and retention as their top challenge.[1]

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[Mythbuster] Halloween is a Nightmare for Company Productivity

For many employers, Halloween is a nightmare—not just because of the costumes, but because of the po

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HR Professionals Give a no Confidence Vote for Line Managers

HR survey highlights management skills gap. London, 30 August 2011 Confidence in line managers' abi

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