Outgoing Acas chairman Ed Sweeney believes HR is not valued highly enough in business and HR directors are just seen by many chief executives as "functionaries".
Geoff Tranfield has been named group HR director of engineering company IMI.
HR software firm Workday has appointed Ashley Goldsmith as chief HR officer (CHRO).
Inga Beale will become the first woman to lead the Lloyd’s of London insurance market in its 325-year history. Beale will take over as chief executive from Richard Ward in January.
TripAdvisor’s Julie Bradley had never run an HR department when she took on the HR director role with her appointment as CFO. But the combined functions leave her well placed to help the acquisitive...
HR magazine’s 13th Most Influential UK Thinker, Chris Roebuck, has been named as interim global head of performance management at multinational banking and financial services firm ING.
Insurance, investment and retirement group LV= has appointed Julia Tyson as its new group HR director.
After a period of turbulence at John Lennon Airport in which hundreds of jobs were lost, HR director Carol Dutton shares how an inclusive approach to staff relations is improving morale and developing...
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For Richard Eastmond (pictured), a role at Amnesty International tapped into his ethics of fairness but the measures he is taking to adapt a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) are risking an...
Liv Garfield, 38, is due to become the youngest woman ever to lead a FTSE 100 company, when she leaves BT next year to become CEO of Coventry-based water company Severn Trent.
Dean Royles, CEO of NHS Employers, believes there is a great opportunity for HR in 2014 to show how good people management strategies can "really add value" to organisations.
