Is leadership a procession of passing fads, or a rare bird HR can never capture? From Sony to Yell, companies are seeking to create waves
According to Chan Abraham, CEO of social housing company, Luminus, all of his staff say Sunday is the best day of the week. Why? “Because it means tomorrow they go back to work.” Where, naturally, the...
You almost couldn’t write the script. On one side of town – at County Hall, on a cold February day – employees at Norfolk County Council are digesting news that 750 posts (1,000 staff) will be cut, as...
Gone are the days when bosses paid staff and that was about as involved as they got in their employees’ finances.
Stephen Dando (pictured), chief HR officer at news and financial information conglomerate Thomson Reuters, wants to move on.
Chancellor George Osborne and shadow chancellor Ed Balls traded a war of words at yesterday’s Institute of Directors conference, with each – separated by an hour – giving delegates made up of HR...
Business leaders at yesterday’s IoD conference were told to “pay staff more” if they want to get themselves out of the recession, by Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC.
When Lord Davies finally delivered his much-anticipated recommendations about how to increase female representation on British boards, many (male) business leaders, fearing tough new quotas, will have...
Rolls-Royce Aerospace, Dyson, Alliance Boots, Mothercare and Next (pictured) were yesterday crowned the top five companies by The Reputation Institute in terms of the reputations they hold in the eyes...
It's like a runaway train: another week, another 'budgets slashed' announcement from public sector bosses and yet another HR department learns its fate.
Companies will in future be valued on how they report on dealing with – and keeping – their customers, serial entrepreneur and former Dragons’ Den dragon, James Caan, said yesterday.
Employers are not equipping their staff to deal with the rise of increasingly demanding customers they are creating, according to Nicola Millard, customer experience futurologist at BT.
