MSc Human Resource Management (Merit)
December 2022 to December 2025
HR Operations, Employee Relations and Responsible Workplace Change
I am a London-based HR practitioner and Associate CIPD member with experience supporting a regulated workforce of 120+, including two months assuming Acting HR Manager responsibilities. My work has covered employee relations, payroll, recruitment, UK employment law, GDPR compliance, training and process improvement.I combine hands-on HR practice with earlier people-management and technology-business experience. I hold an MSc in Human Resource Management with Merit, supported by quantitative research into generative AI adoption in UK workplaces.MichaelHR is my professional repository for practical writing on UK employment law, people management, HR operations and responsible AI adoption. I am the author of A Practical Guide to UK Employment Law and am currently writing AI at Work.I am currently seeking HR Advisor, Senior HR Advisor and HR Operations opportunities in London, particularly roles involving employee relations, compliance, manager support and systems or process improvement.
Key Experience & Qualifications:
HR Officer at LSOP London
June 2018 to September 2022
CIPD Level 3 Diploma in HR Practice
March 2016 to February 2017
Co-Founder & Business Partner at Webwarecare
February 2014 to June 2018
Team Manager at Sky
January 2010 to February 2014
Latest Posts
Job vs. Role
When referring to vacancies, many use the terms 'job' and 'role' as a synonym of each other. There is a nuanced difference. A 'job' is an organisational function of defined tasks, duties or activities. A 'role' is the part played, emphasising specific...
Contextual Strategising
The insights offered from optimal and suboptimal outcomes of 'management influence' versus 'employee behaviour' are timelessly instructive to people professionals. The sources of such information are plentiful, and many originate from academic papers, business analysis, and behavioural theories. The value prospect for people professionals who learn...
Lying Flat: Fad or Fact
The idiom 'Lying Flat' (Huazhong 2021) has come to represent a rejection of perceived professional demand and societal expectation in exchange for a leisurely, nonmaterialistic lifestyle. We are extending to forgoing marriage, having no children, remaining unemployed, and shunning traditional milestones, i.e., buying a house or owning...
History of the Working Week
Effective August 2022, full-time employees' weekly average working hours in the UK was 36.5 hours. For comparison, the lowest recorded was 30.3 in 2020 during the pandemic, and the highest was 38.8 in 1997. This data uses a five-day workweek as a fact, but how did...
Defining Discrimination
The Equality Act 2010 grants legal protection to nine protected characteristics (article here). This means it is against the law to treat people discriminatively at work, in education, as a consumer, when using public services, when buying or renting property, or as members/guests of a private club or association....
UK Employment Law (Sep 2022)
Relationships are complex, especially regarding the employer/employee dynamic. First impressions, words spoken, actions taken, and tone used—every interaction shapes behaviours and norms—sometimes contentiously. For this reason, people professionals scrutinise workplace behaviours and practices. Every conceivable, all too human, behaviour plays out when people come together in the...
