In 2014, the UK workforce will become active again. Many people, myself included, believe the recession is behind us and that will lead to a more mobile workforce, which creates challenges and...
Less than half of companies have a long-term employee value proposition (EVP) plan, leading to poorer employee engagement, staff recruitment and retention, a Towers Watson study has found.
Remote working is on the rise as companies are increasingly expanding internationally.
Today 51 global organisations have been certified as 'Democratic Workplaces' by WorldBlu, an organisation specialising in analysing democratic cultures.
There’s a theory that we have four basic emotions: fear, anger, sadness and joy, the primary colours of emotional life. Putting joy aside as self-evidently a good thing, it’s hard to believe that...
What will it take to restore the public’s confidence in the financial sector? HR directors have their work cut out to change what’s rotten at the heart of banking culture.
As the final report by QC Robert Francis from the public inquiry into the failings at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation was published yesterday, the CIPD has urged employers in all sectors to learn...
In our fourth article exploring innovation, we return to Manchester and ask: is this the perfect home for organisations?
In our third article exploring innovation, we visit Manchester-based web hosting provider UKFast, a company with an innovation that is just crazy enough to work: substituting HR for personal trainers...
Today is the start of a week long series on innovation. The first issue we look at is: how to build an innovative company.
Employees whose behaviour consistently goes against the values of the organisations they work for are either left unpunished or are rewarded or promoted, according to researched published today by the...
HR can use “guerrilla tactics” to drive wellbeing, engagement and organisational democracy but the most senior people in the organisation must be on board if employees are to feel they can co-create...
