Talent management firm Discovery acquires StrategA

Midlands-based Discovery, a graduate talent management company, has bought performance improvement consultancy StrategA as the first of several planned acquisitions for 2011/12.

The heirs to sustainable enterprise are the smaller adaptable regional cities

UK workers and businesses want cities of tomorrow to be more local, individual and sustainable, according to research by urban regeneration firm Opportunity Peterborough and sustainable development...

Employee benefits can help staff go green

Saving a forest or two by switching to e-communications is no longer enough to demonstrate a company’s green credentials. In order to be truly classed as 'green', your benefits scheme should enable...

Financial planner acquires web-based benefit admin firm

Mazars Financial Planning, the financial planning and advisory business of accountancy firm Mazars, has acquired the business and assets of Redbourne, a specialist employee benefit administration...

Westfield Health acquires PatientChoice

Health cash plan provider Westfield Health has announced it is acquiring the business of PatientChoice, which administers, markets and sells health insurance products.

Workers want employers to help them understand finance

Eight in 10 employers feel responsible for their employees’ financial security while three quarters of employees would value more help from their employer.

Companies must change their attitude to risk in order to avert another financial crisis

Increasing regulation to avoid a repeat of the financial crisis will be completely ineffective if it is not accompanied by a wholesale change in companies' own attitude to risk, according to leading...

Ten ways to streamline your business in 2011

From putting people at the heart of what you do in business to doing it all with a sense of fun, a check-list of 10 top tips.

Failure to involve line managers in M&A leads to reduced productivity and increased disengagement

Companies are under-utilising frontline managers during the integration process in corporate transactions, global consultancy Towers Watson warns today.

CSR and the sharp end of business

Community engagement has for too long been seen as the soft side of CSR. Now smart managers are finding a new use for community engagement - winning business.

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HMV group HR director says store closures like "pruning the branches" to support future growth

Steve West, group HR director at HMV, has hit back at press reports that the entertainment giant is struggling for survival.

Social volunteering has not added a penny to our business but it turns hierarchies upside down

Thank goodness our CEO has not challenged the concept of social volunteering. If he did, how would I respond?