Jokes and slang has become more accepted in the UK workplace over the past decade, according to a recent survey.

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...

HR must be an applied business discipline and business in turn must be an applied HR discipline, the CIPD boss has warned the industry.

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...

More than a quarter of employees do not think their employer has properly communicated redundancy plans to staff.

Firms deterred from providing financial education for fear of falling foul of Financial Services Authority rules are missing a chance to promote their benefits package's value.

HR staff know they must communicate pension information to staff, but they are too scared to do it because of the legal implications.

Royal Mail has angrily rejected claims by the BBC that it is planning to press on with modernisation regardless of what happens in negotiations with the Communication Workers Union (CWU).

The Tribunals Service's statistics released last month did not make happy reading for employers.

We have been talking about work-life balance and building business cases for organisations to embrace it against a backdrop of economic, technological and social/ demographic change for well over a...

Fewer than one in 10 organisations have proved successful at managing change - and the main obstacles are people factors.

Navjot Singh is a hybrid. He is an HR person but he is also a marketer. The two functions may use different language, he says, but both are in the business of selling the brand.