Culture, selection processes, performance management, diversity training, a transparent pay system and flexi-time have all contributed
PwC recently announced plans to ban all-male shortlists to boost the number of senior women
The key to true motivation is not financial, but it can be much harder to achieve
HR directors know performance-related pay is not going to actually drive improved performance but regard it as symbolically important
The first social housing, homelessness and care sector benchmarking survey of 2015 was published this week, and it’s certainly made for interesting reading.
Some years ago I visited my executive coach, a senior in the development team of a global pharmaceutical company. I was interested to learn how her company dealt with succession planning.
It’s been interesting reading about the fears of some employers in the face of the extension of the right to request flexible working beyond the previous categories of parents and carers.
The latest bon mot of Lucy Adams, former BBC HR director, is that “Appraisals don’t work”, In her view, they simply serve to strike fear in the hearts of employees.
Following reports of what Lucy Adams has had to say about her role as HR director in the BBC executive pay-offs imbroglio, there is much debate around at the moment about whether HR should fulfil the...
Broadway Homelessness and Support HR director Helen Giles on what commercial businesses can learn from not-for-profit organisations.
When I train groups of non-HR managers and ask them to guess the average engagement index across the whole of the UK economy, they almost invariably guess between 20% to 50% When I ask them why they...
I very much welcome the CIPD’s new initiative – Valuing Your Talent – to develop a human capital framework that will help businesses measure the impact and value of workers.