John Lewis staff are set to take part in more than 30,000 hours’ work at the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) on secondee roles in preparation for the 2012...

My experience of rapid growth at Innocent Drinks has seen a number of trigger points in the organisation’s development that have demanded action.

The employment relations minister has pledged to push ahead with flexible maternity and paternity leave and a move from "confrontation to conciliation" with regards to employment regulation and...

If one word could be used to sum up the past three years in the business world, it would have to be: cuts. Cuts in budgets, overheads, pay and staff numbers dominated minds of employers in the private...

David Fairhurst, senior vice president/chief people officer at McDonald's Restaurants Europe, has been voted HR magazine's most influential practitioner for the fourth year running, while Dave Ulrich,...

It has become fashionable to speak of HR people needing commercial acumen and business insight. And who can disagree, particularly if, like me, you believe the HR function should have a seat at the...

Wales has given so much to the world over time: coal, top rugby players, Tom Jones, Charlotte Church – and, in the 18th century, an Indian sugar manufacturer, now called EID Parry.

Manchester-based live events and marketing agency, WRG has created an HR department and appointed its first HR manager, Sharon Russell (pictured) as part of a growth strategy.

In 2007, the case of Baby P dominated the news headlines, sickened the nation and shook the social work sector to the core.

Graham White has joined Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust as director of HR.

CEGA Group Services has appointed Julie Smith to the newly created role of HR director.

Ernst & Young has appointed Liz Bingham as managing partner for people in a newly created role.