Katie Jacobs

Valerie Hughes-D'Aeth appointed BBC HR director

The BBC has appointed Valerie Hughes-D'Aeth as its new director of HR.

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Lucy Adams: ‘appraisals don’t work’

The annual appraisal system is not fit for purpose former BBC HR director Lucy Adams has claimed this morning.

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Is this the biggest shake-up to legal services in 800 years?

Liberalisation of the legal services market hasn’t brought about massive change overnight, but it is forcing providers to reassess their offering in light of fresh competition. Katie Jacobs unravels...

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HR must address ‘complex’ issue of fairness

HR professionals must address the changing and complex issue of fairness within their organisations, or risk negative impacts on employee engagement, reputation and trust, experts agreed yesterday.

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Business must move from discussing the ‘why’ to ‘how’ of diversity, leaders told

Business needs to move from discussing the ‘why’ of diversity to talking seriously about how to achieve it in reality, diversity champion Helena Morrissey said last night.

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Opportunity Now survey reveals gap between policy and reality for women at work

A survey of more than 25,000 people has highlighted a worrying gap between organisational policies and the experiences of women aged 28 to 40 at work.

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Stronger regulation needed on employee voice, says HR professor

Employee voice is a basic “human right” and there should be harder regulation around making sure it gets heard, an HR professor has said.

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The Byron interview served with extra relish

Katie Jacobs meets Steve Rockey, the head of people at burger chain Byron who is hooked on the adrenaline rush of rapid company expansion

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HR and the SME growth cycle

HR magazine looks at how important HR is to the burgeoning small and medium-sized enterprise sector and finds that, once the initial cynicism about bureaucracy is overcome, the function can evolve...

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Whistleblowing data should be reported, says charity

Employers should share whistleblowing data in their annual reports to allow benchmarking, according to Public Concern at Work CEO Cathy James.

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‘Grab hold’ of analytics or get left behind, HR warned

HR must "grab hold" of analytics or risk being left behind other functions, an expert warned yesterday.

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The UK's top employer: interview with KFC's James Watts

KFC’s James Watts on how the fast-food giant, does more than train its young recruits – it prepares them for life

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