Peter Crush

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The future of learning and development: leaving the classroom and embracing the iPad?

Peter Crush, 23 Apr 2012

Right now, Boyd Glover, head of skills, Dixons Retail, is justifiably being labelled as one of the learning...

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Globalisation of learning and development stalls as HRDs favour a local approach, finds Global Edge study

Peter Crush, 29 Mar 2012

This time last year, HR magazine revealed a home-grown success story: UK HR consultants truly were ruling...

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Interview with Richard Harpin, CEO of Homeserve

Peter Crush, 16 Dec 2011

He’s fidgeting. Stolen glances at his watch have been replaced by full-blown dial gripping. My time...

Interview with Anne Minto OBE, ex-group HRD at Centrica

Peter Crush, 03 Nov 2011

Is it the sign of the times – or the mark of the profession – that an HR director, leaving the profession...

Retirement: interview with Ros Altmann, director general of Saga

Peter Crush, 11 Oct 2011

Depending on what you read, Dr Ros Altmann, who was an adviser to the Number 10 Policy Unit and an...

Retirement: post DRA, the performance management of older staff will come to the fore

Peter Crush, 11 Oct 2011

Charlie Mullins, CEO, Pimlico Plumbers, the UK’s largest independent plumbing company, has become something...

HR Reward Survey 2011: Business is failing to communicate the value of employee benefits

Peter Crush, 06 Sep 2011

The results this year’s HR Reward Survey are marked by ennui and inertia. Business is not communicating...

Strategic workforce planning is just the business for the savvy HR director

Peter Crush, 11 Aug 2011

Before launching startup company Incahoot.com six months ago, its CEO (and, by default, HRD), John Evans...

HRD at heart: Fil Adams-Mercer, CEO of Parcel2Go

Peter Crush, 09 Aug 2011

When most businesspeople glibly boast about ‘ripping up the rule-book’, you can bet your bottom...

Leadership: The bland leading the bland? Time to get radical

Peter Crush, 05 Jul 2011

Is leadership a procession of passing fads, or a rare bird HR can never capture? From Sony to Yell, companies...

Interview with Neville Hounsome, HR director at May Gurney

Peter Crush, 15 Jun 2011

You almost couldn’t write the script. On one side of town – at County Hall, on a cold February day...

Interview with Chan Abraham, CEO of Luminus

Peter Crush, 15 Jun 2011

According to Chan Abraham, CEO of social housing company, Luminus, all of his staff say Sunday is the...

Financial education: employer case studies

Peter Crush, 27 May 2011

Gone are the days when bosses paid staff and that was about as involved as they got in their employees’...

Fine and Dando

Peter Crush, 19 May 2011

Stephen Dando (pictured), chief HR officer at news and financial information conglomerate Thomson Reuters,...

Bosses told: “Pay staff more”

Peter Crush, 12 May 2011

Business leaders at yesterday’s IoD conference were told to “pay staff more” if they want to get...

George Osborne and Ed Balls slug it out over employment discrimination and job losses

Peter Crush, 12 May 2011

Chancellor George Osborne and shadow chancellor Ed Balls traded a war of words at yesterday’s Institute...

Interview with Caroline lucas, leader of the Green Party

Peter Crush, 09 May 2011

When Lord Davies finally delivered his much-anticipated recommendations about how to increase female...

Rolls-Royce Aerospace, Dyson, Alliance Boots, Mothercare and Next have best reputation in the eyes of the public

Peter Crush, 07 Apr 2011

Rolls-Royce Aerospace, Dyson, Alliance Boots, Mothercare and Next (pictured) were yesterday crowned the...

Public execution: HR directors struggle to find the panacea to the public sector cuts

Peter Crush, 05 Apr 2011

It's like a runaway train: another week, another 'budgets slashed' announcement from public sector bosses...

Staff-customer interaction should be in annual report, says dragon James Caan

Peter Crush, 23 Mar 2011

Companies will in future be valued on how they report on dealing with – and keeping – their customers,...

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