A pleasant environment is vital to productivity

What is the impact on productivity when employees have a working environment that meets all their needs?

Agility and flexibility aren't the same

Increased agility is achieved by establishing the right balance between flexibility and fixedness

Four possible future worlds of work

Speakers at AMBA’s Careers and Talent Forum 2018 shared their predictions for the future workforce and how leaders should get ahead

HRD's pocket guide to... joint ventures

The HRD’s pocket guide series offers an explanation of areas outside day-to-day HR that business-savvy HRDs need to have a handle on

Perspectives on leadership

Three leaders on what makes good leadership, where to find it and how to develop it

Features

Is change actually needed?

Crucial for successful organisational change is knowing when not to do it

The importance of a people-centred culture

Design cultures that embed goals and values in such a way that employees are consistently customer focused

It may be time to ditch hierarchies

We view careers as opportunities to progress through top-down hierarchies. But do hierarchies actually work?

Organisations should focus on ‘resourcing’ rather than recruitment

Recruitment is reactive and focuses only on short-term needs, whereas resourcing is long term and strategic

When not to collaborate

One barrier to overcome is the common conflation of collaboration with working together positively

Carillion government report: What now?

The government has concluded that Carillion's collapse was the result of moral failings on the board. HR magazine asked experts if the tide will now turn on the issue of corporate governance

The three essential traits for effective leadership

A more human form of leadership is needed for organisations to be truly successful