HR Insights Blog

Are you interested in HR related topics? Our blogs contain recent trends, professional opinions, case studies and more. Benefit from our knowledge and experiences in HR for many years.

Mariam Pedreira

“I joined the company in 2014 as Project & Account Manager for the Top Employers certification programme in Spain. I have developed my career in the area of Human Resources. I love people! Also I enjoy working with organizations that create excellent working conditions.”

Recent Posts

A growing number of companies are introducing global career plans

Posted by Mariam Pedreira on Thu, Feb 18, 2016

A growing number of companies that operate in various countries are introducing common and coherent career and succession plans for all geographical areas in which they are present. This is a trend we had already detected in our Report on Career and Succession Management and which we noticed again during a recent workshop in which 10 Top Employers companies in Spain shared their good practices in this area.

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Topics: Career & Succession management

4 key trends in career and succession management

Posted by Mariam Pedreira on Wed, Aug 26, 2015

Career and succession management is undergoing far-reaching change. From being a process which focused on replacing a company’s key positions, it is evolving to focus its efforts on retention, development and employee commitment at every level of the organisation.

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Topics: Career & Succession management

Involving employees is key to performance management

Posted by Mariam Pedreira on Thu, May 21, 2015

Companies are increasingly involving employees in their performance management processes. The study on this subject conducted by the Top Employers Institute, which included 600 organisations from 99 countries, confirms this fact that we had already observed in the 63 certified companies in Spain.

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Topics: Performance Management

6 HR commitments every Top Employer makes in 2015

Posted by Mariam Pedreira on Thu, Mar 19, 2015
After comprehensive analysis of the 63 enterprises certified as Top Employer Spain 2015 and nearly 1,000 enterprises worldwide, we detected a number of HR trends and innovations that will set the performance of Human Resources departments locally as well as globally during this year.
With our new Top Employers Best Practices Survey that is developed by 50 experts worldwide and adapted to the realities of each country, we have evaluated nearly 600 best practices in nine different fields.The Certification Programme l is only for enterprises with the highest standards of Human Resources, which has also allowed us to capture the main trends in HR management.
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Topics: Performance Management, Leadership Development, Compensation & Benefits, Career & Succession management, On-boarding

What Top Employers can reveal about HR communication channels

Posted by Mariam Pedreira on Wed, Dec 10, 2014

It has become increasingly difficult to stand out from the crowd when offering newly developed products and services, which has made corporate culture an essential element of success. Analyses conducted worldwide by the Top Employers Institute show that cultural and organisational changes have become some of the main priorities for HR elements of global companies. It has also been observed that communication is the keystone to implement these changes successfully.

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Topics: Culture

How important is your employee’s health to your organization?

Posted by Mariam Pedreira on Tue, Oct 14, 2014

Healthy companies, healthy organisations, and healthy work environments are terms we hear more often these days. But what lies behind these labels? At first glance, you might think you are obliged to advertise business initiatives that promote healthy habits, such as sport or nutrition, but in reality these concepts go much further.

We can start by defining what a healthy work environment looks like according to the World Health Organization: one that takes into account the risks of physical work and psychosocial health, but also gives employees resources to start healthy habits and gives back to society.

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