Siân Harrington, 18 May 2012

Women on boards: more talk than action?

The European Commission (EC) is “very committed to speed up progress” on gender diversity in the...

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Penny de Valk, 18 May 2012

Businesses that support older workers will be rewarded with a ‘full house’ of experience, dedication and energy

As lifespans lengthen, portfolio careers become more popular, and households feel the squeeze of a double-dip...

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David Woods, 18 May 2012

Senior employees prepared to quit their jobs over lack of flexible working provision

A record 13.4% of senior employees think employers are out of touch with working mums and plan to quit...

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Peter Bradley, 18 May 2012

Apprenticeships need both length and quality, says parliament

A parliamentary report published yesterday has questioned the length and quality of many apprenticeships....

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David Woods, 10 May 2012

FTSE 50 has only 1% HR representation at board level

Research by HR recruiter Ortus, published this morning, shows HR professionals are "seriously underrepresented"...

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David Woods, 09 May 2012

Managers confident about their ability to drive business growth in 2012, reveals ILM

Despite the gloomy economic outlook caused by the UK’s slip into a double dip recession, 60% of bosses...

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David Woods, 04 May 2012

Managers have ‘inflated opinion’ of their leadership skills and have ‘no idea’ how staff perceive their style, reveals CIPD study

A study into management by the CIPD has found that three quarters of employers report a lack of leadership...

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David Woods, 02 May 2012

David Conway takes over HR responsibilities for BBC Studios and Post Production

David Conway (pictured) has been appointed chief operating officer (COO) for BBC Studios and Post Production,...

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Boris’s apprenticeships

Boris Johnson has pledged to get young London working by creating 250,000 new apprenticeships. In a recent article he puzzled aloud, not for the first time, why it seems to be all immigrants rather than British-born young people working in places like Pret.

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Giving feedback internationally

In our experience, the Performance Appraisal System that so many organisations employ these days is outdated and rarely works.

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A perfect time to rethink healthcare strategy

What a difference a year makes. The last time HR produced a health and wellbeing supplement, in June 2011, I wrote that “with NHS reforms stalled, this is an opportune moment for HRDs to reconsider well-being provisions”. I was ‘slightly’ off the mark in one prediction, because over the past six months, NHS reform has been a talking-point, to say the least.

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