Business leaders have unrealistic expectations about the success of their change programmes, with 64% of directors rating the results over the past year as positive compared with 45% of staff.

William Hill is considering rebranding to Bill Hill as a means to be seen as a friendly organisation with a community feel, according to its HR director.

HR has been advised not to fear trade union reaction to redundancies but to forge relationships and agreements with them to manage organisational change.

With jobs at stake team spirit tends to suffer as people focus on proving their own worth.

With the power distance between HR and other disciplines, aligning people strategies is tough.

Employers can increase staff engagement by 20%-30% by simply saying "thank you" to staff, according to O.C. Tanner.

Speakers from walks of life other than business are in great demand. There are many parallels between corporate life and the natural world, Peter Crush finds.

Marks & Spencer has launched an interactive online television chat show to provide employees with financial advice and information.

In a world governed by ever stricter regulations over who says what to whom, in what tone and why, we all have to be careful. But how many of us really spend much time thinking of what we are going to...

Masterlease UK, the fleet management company, is using self-service software from Sage HR & Payroll to reduce HR admin and increase employee engagement.

Less than half (40%) of employees think their company has a clear plan to get through the recession and, of these, less than a third feel committed to the long-term success of their company.

Seven out of 10 HR departments plan to change their employee communication methods as a result of the economic downturn.