Cable and Wireless (C&W), the global telecommunications company, has restructured its HR department, and re-named the function 'People and Brand', HR magazine can exclusively reveal.
How has e-learning evolved since the early days of 'video disks' and 'computer-based training'? Peter Crush delves into the past to see how golden oldies compare with what's on offer today.
The financial sector has taken a battering, yet many banking groups still top the list of places graduates want to work. Why have these brands have stayed indestructible?
Navjot Singh is a hybrid. He is an HR person but he is also a marketer. The two functions may use different language, he says, but both are in the business of selling the brand.
Union learning representatives are helping to keep employers committed to training.
Nearly two-fifths of staff have had no training in the past year.
When performance doesn't improve after training, the problem may not be as simple as course content or a worker's inability to change. More complex factors may be at work.
Directors of talent from a variety of industry sectors debated the issue of talent in the recession. Peter Crush chaired. Sponsored by Sum Total
Disney is building its first candidate community to match jobseekers for current and future jobs by holding recruitment days at its head offices. Peter Crush joined one to see it in action.
HRD Scott Northcutt has ambitious plans to cultivate the delivery firm's management talent - but that doesn't mean fast-tracking. As he tells Peter Crush, there's no substitute for years of service.
Despite the Government currently legislating that firms need to invest in preventive health and absence management policies, it seems most businesses still only deal with absence after it happens.
BT is offering some staff a year off as a sabbatical in return for a 75% pay cut in that year's pay.
