In the first of our five-day feature series on engagement, we talk to Ken Allen (pictured), CEO of DHL Express, who has just invested €100 million in a company-wide engagement initiative.
Have you heard of LOL? I don’t mean today’s text talk for ‘laugh out loud’. Nor the ‘lots of love’ that ended every smitten Seventies girl’s letter to her sweetheart and recently made famous by...
Due to unprecedented demand, the deadline for HR Excellence Awards 2013 has been extended until Friday 5 April. Use this time to put those finishing touches to your entries that will make them stand...
Early feedback to the first phase of auto-enrolment has been “stunning” according to pensions minister Steve Webb (pictured), while Steve Jones, pensions manager at Asda – one of the first companies...
I recently had the pleasure of attending the Engage for Success international subgroup, where 30 HR guests worked in small teams to share experiences and capture what Standard Chartered Bank’s head of...
There’s a scene in the 2005 award-winning satirical film Thank You for Smoking where Nick Naylor, chief spokesman and lobbyist for Big Tobacco, goes to a bar to meet best friends Polly Bailey from the...
Only one in a thousand people dies in employment, but the benefits to their family can range from nothing to 14 times their salary.
The public's trust in banks has plummeted from 41% in 2008 to 21% in 2012. And according to commentators HR magazine has spoken to, bankers – in particular traders – have virtually no trust in the HR...
Policing social media does nothing for an organisation’s strategy while recruiters can use it to their advantage, chief HR and corporate officer, Shell, Hugh Mitchell (pictured) warns.
On the fifth anniversary of HR magazine’s ongoing CSHR Make a Difference campaign to encourage HR directors to take a lead in embedding corporate social responsibility (CSR) into the business,...
HMV had a good trading day yesterday, according to my sources. Whether it was the public rallying around the beleaguered high street entertainment retailer, which went into administration a mere few...
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