David Woods, 16 May 2012

CIPD appoints Peter Cheese as chief executive

The CIPD has today appointed Peter Cheese (pictured) as its new chief executive.

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Peter Bradley, 16 May 2012

ONS May figures offer some comfort to Government

There was some slightly good news for the embattled Government from the employment figures published...

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David Woods, 16 May 2012

Sickness accounted for 131 million working days lost in 2011 - but the number is falling, finds ONS

Approximately 131 million working days were lost to sickness absence in 2011, a new report from the Office...

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David Woods, 16 May 2012

Britain's got talent, but employers don't see the risk of losing it, reports Vodafone UK

When it comes to business continuity planning, UK businesses are much better prepared for technology...

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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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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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