Sian Harrington

Interview with Jacq Lunardi,UK commercial business HR director at Kellogg's

Kellogg's might be at the top of its game and outperforming its rivals, but UK commercial business HRD Jacq Lunardi is not one for complacency - and big changes are afoot. By Sian Harrington.

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Value is ignored in decisions about pay

As the late Princess Diana famously pointed out, having a third person in a marriage is a cause of great distress. In the world of work, the accepted couplet of pay and talent is likewise disturbed by...

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How can employers better support families?

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), in partnership with HR Magazine, is pleased to invite you to a parliamentary seminar and reception looking at how employers - particularly small and medium...

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Editorial: Concentrate on improving HR talent

Can it really be a full 10 years ago that we were waking up to a new year having, in the words of the popular Prince song, partied like it's 1999? With the dawn of the new millennium came celebration,...

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Royal Bank of Scotland's HR director denies his department was to blame for the company's reward failings

After a year of maintaining a low profile, RBS HR director Neil Roden emerges to deny HR strategy was in any way responsible for the group's reward failures.

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Interview with Jackie Orme chief executive of the CIPD

Enough of the navel-gazing: if HR is to deliver to the business it should stop relying on one or two bright sparks and work together to raise the bar. So what is CIPD chief Jackie Orme going to do...

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RBS is losing top talent because of inconsistencies in the reform of reward across the world

RBS's group director, human resources, Neil Roden (pictured), yesterday revealed the taxpayer-owned bank had already lost senior talent from the business thanks to the inconsistent approach to pay...

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Leaders are responding to situations and missing the changes in context

Great leaders ultimately fail because they focus too much on the situational issues of today and miss changes in the context around them.

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Divisions between top teams cause failure to discuss sensitive issues

Top teams fail to discuss sensitive issues even when such failure will cause harm to the business, according to Cranfield School of Management professor of international management development Andrew...

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HRDs must think business rather than HR to become a business partner

Business strategy will come from the HR strategy if organisations truly believe people are the most important asset and that building talent is key to business success, Fairplace chief executive...

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Lynda Gratton to help HR shape the world of work via Future of Work consortium

HR has a choice: it can either sit back and watch the world of work evolving or it can help shape it, according to Lynda Gratton, professor of management practice at London Business School.Gratton,...

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Diversity Gender: Women raise the bar

There are still very few women in leadership positions despite persuasive evidence of their positive effect on profitability. Sian Harrington looks at the gender imbalance in Britain's boardrooms.

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