Until I met Gina Qiao (pictured), senior vice president human resources at Chinese PC superbrand, Lenovo, I was secretly pleased with HR magazine’s burgeoning Twitter following (some 25,300 and...
If the UK were a company, what should its people policy be? Here are some strategic HR approaches to help CEO David Cameron and his board identify UK plc’s core competencies and kick-start growth
It is a year next month since chancellor George Osborne announced his Budget for Growth. But so far that growth has amounted to a paltry 0.9%, according to ONS. Worse still, GDP shrank 0.2% in the...
HR magazine is delighted to announce that Kevin Steward (pictured), head of business development at ATS Euromaster, is the winner of our competition to attend Lane4's new High Performance Leadership...
After graduating as a journalist in the late 1980s, I took a Christmas job at John Lewis in High Wycombe, while seeking my first media role.
To celebrate the start of this Olympic year, HR magazine has tied up with Lane4, a leading performance development consultancy with a unique heritage in elite sport and business performance, to offer...
Leading HR thinker Dave Ulrich and a team at Michigan Ross School of Business and the RBL Group have unveiled the six core competencies HR professionals must demonstrate to be personally effective and...
More than half of public sector job seekers would be prepared to sacrifice their pension for a career in the private sector, according to global professional recruiting group Hays.
I am so excited. In 2012, there is going to be jobs growth and a turnaround in the UK economy. All the worries about rising unemployment will disappear. Yes, the Government is finally tackling the...
If they want a lesson on how to eliminate debt, UK prime minister David Cameron and chancellor George Osborne could hardly do better, says Sian Harrington, than to turn to Shashi and Ravi Ruia,...
For the thousands of HR magazine readers whose bookshelves are laden with the philosophies and business musings of leading management guru Charles Handy, his view on HR will come as something of a...
How long before an HR director is viewed as successor to the chief executive officer? With one of the world’s top management thinkers saying “HR is a contaminated brand” and a CEO declaring “there is...
