HRD's pocket guide to... sustainable finance

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

Is engagement fact or fiction?

Few seem able to agree on what engagement is or how to measure it. Some argue that it never existed at all and was nothing more than the latest fad

Claire Fox: Productivity problem down to UK firms' fear of failure

A panel at the CIPD's Festival of Work debated the impact that investment in training and tech, management skill levels, and CEO pay have on UK productivity

Four ways to be an ethical AI business leader

At the 2019 CIPD Festival of Work speakers shared tips on how to ensure AI is helping to create meaningful work

Has Brexit led to a parliament pressure cooker?

MPs and civil servants are under increasing strain to deliver an as-yet unclear Brexit plan

MPs renew calls for gagging clause ban

The government must be clearer about use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), which are still regularly used to cover up harassment, according to a report by MPs

BBC HRD announces she will leave end of this year

Valerie Hughes-D’Aeth, who became group HR director in 2014,? said that staying in the role for around this period of time had always been her plan

Few employee volunteers 'very satisfied'

Employers must do more to ensure staff involved in employer supported volunteering (ESV) have positive experiences, according to research

TUI HRD: Create an Amazon-like experience for staff

A panel at the HR360 European Summit debated what the age of agile means for HR

Equal pay on a global scale

Geneva-based Philip Morris International strove to ensure its operations around the world could be certified as paying men and women equally

Employees who 'fit in' more productive

Cultural fit has a large bearing on productivity and attrition, but this is still a blind spot for HR

How many of your employees are disengaged?

The way we think about work is changing and to move with this curve management needs a new lens through which to view workers