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...
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.
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...
Deborah Marriott Harrison (pictured), grand-daughter of the founder of the eponymous hotel group, came late to the family firm, by recommendation, after raising five children. In an exclusive...
Next month marks the 400th anniversary of the completion of the King James Bible, arguably the most influential book in the English language.
The UK is facing a crisis that is “the economic equivalent of war”, Vince Cable, secretary of state for Business, Innovation and Skills, told the Lib Dem party conference last month in a speech short...
We’ve all been there: hour-long meetings in which staff add their pennyworth, managers do the right ‘HR’ thing by listening – and then everyone walks out without any decisions being made. Worse still,...
