The innovation economy: it’s the Holy Grail every country appears to be chasing. From Malaysian prime minister Najib Tun Razak saying growth will come from innovation and creativity in his new...
Employment relations minister Jo Swinson has announced plans to reduce the 90 day minimum period before very large scale redundancies can take place to 45 days.
Caroline Waters, director of people and policy at BT and one of HR’s Most Influential Practitioners 2012, is to step down after 34 years at the company to take up a portfolio career.
His might not be the usual HR career path: from frontline corporate sales to general management and finally chief people officer. But then Jeremy Campbell does know a thing or two about HR, having...
Physical location is a redundant concept. People can work anywhere, anytime, from high street coffee shop to bedroom; high-speed train to hotel room; in a traditional suit or even their birthday suit....
Sainsbury's has reinstated the role of group HR director following the announcement that customer service and colleague director Gwyn Burr is leaving the retailer in March 2013 to focus on her...
Tomorrow the UK’s business leaders will be waiting to hear whether chancellor George Osborne can pull anything special out of his battered briefcase to stimulate growth in 2013. I will wager, however,...
If an ability to deal with difficult people situations is a prerequisite for an HR director, then Vanessa Evans got off to a flying start. On taking over as manager of an Early Learning Centre in...
There’s a scene in the 1998 Star Trek film Insurrection where Captain Jean-Luc Picard admires a beautifully made blanket by a Ba’ku inhabitant of a planet on which everyone has the secret of...
Learning and development professionals should be brokers of learning not keepers of the learning keys, according to Facebook head of learning Stuart Crabb.
Organisations seeking creative people to enable them to innovate should think again for creative people are less reliable, harder to manage and difficult to reward, according to University of London...
Enabling employees to "do their hobby at work" and shunning an HR function in favour of managers leading the people agenda has helped small business Cougar Automation to turn around its business, MD...
