A few weeks ago, HR magazine attended a conference. On the agenda: culture, engagement, values, trust. Nothing new there. But this wasn’t an HR event. In fact, there weren’t even any HR professionals...
There can’t be many HR directors who have responsibility for an organisation’s property, facilities and security functions.
At the launch of Government-backed movement Engage for Success in November last year, a powerful video was shown. In it, a young man rails to the camera about how organisations in the UK should “give...
Diversity and inclusion programmes must be tied to commercial strategy or risk failing due to “diversity fatigue”, Sarah Churchman, director of diversity, inclusion and employee wellbeing at...
After the Francis report into the failings of Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust was published last month, healthcare technology company Digital Spark once again suspected the Government had been tracking...
Investors and senior directors are more interested in talent data than ever before, but HR departments might not be primed to deliver, Jeremy Shapiro, executive director at Morgan Stanley said...
With a skills deficit holding the UK back from economic recovery, whose responsibility is it to up-skill the workforce – the Government, the workers, or the employers?
Employers’ diversity strategies should focus on creating a diverse talent pool for the future, not just short-term gain, Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe, head of diversity and inclusion EMEA at Google has said.
When Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, Christine Lagarde, now head of the IMF, quipped that had it been Lehman Sisters, the economic crisis would look very different.
Joe Garner, former head of HSBC UK, has said that any change in banking culture must be down to integrity and care rather than more rules and regulations.
Generation Y employees see themselves as more risk averse and less entrepreneurial than their older colleagues, according to a report published today by job website Monster.com and consultancy firm...
What will it take to restore the public’s confidence in the financial sector? HR directors have their work cut out to change what’s rotten at the heart of banking culture.
