Arvind Hickman

Why the Dorchester Collection protest is wrong

The protest against the Dorchester Collection (DC) over its tenuous links to Brunei’s harsh Sharia laws are misguided, ineffective and will only harm the employees of a company that has equality at...

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Dorchester Collection to protect staff from Brunei boycott

The Dorchester Collection has promised to protect jobs, wages and benefits in spite of a potentially harmful boycott due to the company’s links to Brunei.

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VyT scraps ambition to ‘capitalise’ staff

Negative feedback has spurred the CIPD to remove an element of Valuing Your Talent that aimed to measure staff as a balance-sheet asset. But as the project’s launch date nears, professional divisions...

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Valuing your talent: the story so far

Business leaders love spouting the old cliché ‘our people are our greatest asset’. Although it may ring true in many organisations, why is it that the greatest asset is also one of the hardest to...

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Dave Ulrich: 'Standards should start with stakeholders'

HR magazine has launched a new campaign, Raising the Standard, to explore whether HR needs standards and how to raise the level of professional practice. In this piece we gather the thoughts of Dave...

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REC launches good recruitment campaign

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has today launched the Good Recruitment Campaign in an effort to provide organisations with guidance to help improve recruitment standards and...

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Flexible working: dads want choice, too

Flexible working, particularly in relation to child care, is heavily skewed towards mums. HR magazine editor Arvind Hickman argues a shift in employer attitudes is needed ahead of next year's shared...

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Shadow justice minister: 'I'd favour contractors that offer opportunities to ex-offenders'

A Labour government would "favour" contractors that provide employment opportunities to ex-offenders when bidding for Ministry of Justice (MoJ) work, shadow secretary of state for justice Sadiq Khan...

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Gender pay gap rises to 19.7%, but closes for under-40s

The gender pay gap for full-time workers under 40 has closed to around 1%, although it climbs substantially when part-time workers, who are mostly women, are included, Government analysis that...

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RMT leader Bob Crow passes away

Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union general secretary Bob Crow has died.

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Shedding light on mental health

When it comes to wellbeing, the extent to which we ignore mental health is startling. What can be done to end a taboo that costs business – and people – dearly?

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Integrated reporting requires influential HR

The success of integrated reporting relies on HR taking the opportunity to ramp up its influence on strategy and value creation, experts have said.

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