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.

"Management that wants to change an institution must first show it loves that institution," the broadcaster and journalist Sir John Tusa once remarked. This is certainly true, but for change to...

Managers are not engaging with staff while employees are increasingly asking for time to be heard, new research reveals.

Almost a fifth of managers (18%) would prefer to sort out issues in the workplace using email or MSN messenger, rather than talking to staff face to face.

Metropolitan Police staff have been told they must make a record of their toilet breaks.

Was it barefaced cheek or just pure naked ambition? Ad agency Onebestway believed stripping off for a day could break down communication barriers between staff.

Human resources is resented as a kind of office police; would another title improve its image?

HR consultancy O.C. Tanner officially practices what it preaches. It has become one of the few UK organisations to receive Gold status from Investors in People.

B. Braun Medical has launched total reward statements to communicate to employees the total value of their reward package.

Kellogg's is using some of its best-known cereal characters to communicate its total reward provision to staff.