HR magazine launches website to celebrate Most Influential practitioners and thinkers in HR

HR magazine has launched a dedicated website for its annual ranking of the Most Influential practitioners and thinkers in the sector.

Coalition government needs to put new style of leadership at heart of UK politics

The last month has seen a sea change in the way politics is conducted in the UK. Not since the fall of Margaret Thatcher has the public been so enthralled by the personal styles of those in power, or...

Postal workers vote two to one in favour of pay deal agreed between CWU and Royal Mail

Postal workers have voted to accept a deal with Royal Mail over pay.

Conservative leader attacks size of Met Police's HR department in electoral debate on ITV

David Cameron launched an attack on the size of the Metropolitan Police's HR department, labelling them 'form fillers', in last night's first live electoral debate on ITV.

Election manifestos' employment law commitments fail to impress HR professionals

All three major election manifestos have received a lukewarm reception from HR professionals.

Spotlight on the leadership styles of Brown, Cameron and Clegg

The start of an election campaign is often the best time to consider the leadership skills of politicians. So how are our three main party leaders coping after the first week of campaigning?

Providing a comprehensive programme of employee benefits will be very costly - true or false?

Employers can shy away from adding to their benefits programme for cost reasons - yet all research points to employee benefits as a key recruitment and retention tool. How can you balance the...

Think carefully before sacrificing employee benefits for short-term savings

Looking at the benefits budget from an outsider's perspective, it's relatively easy to see a large number and assume it can be trimmed without your employees really caring - or even noticing.

Stategic workforce planning: The appliance of science

Workforce planning has been around for years, but is making a comeback as a scientific discipline.

Talk to staff to get new HR ideas, says Tesco's HRD

HR directors have been advised not to look to their competitors to benchmark HR ideas, but to look inside their own organisations

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.

HR implored to move from 'business partner to business provocateur'

The CIPD launched its much-anticipated Next Generation HR speech last night, calling on the next breed of HR professionals to be the builders of "organisational equity" and to be their organisations'...