Senior executives need exceptional drive and interpersonal skills to push themselves and others to succeed. But under pressure, these qualities can go into overdrive, and lead to catastrophe.

Businesses need to constantly evolve to survive in challenging market conditions. Here, Marks & Spencer director of HR Tanith Dodge shares her top tips for innovating in business.

Careers advice and services in schools need to be urgently improved, according to a report by the National Careers Council.

Remember the mantra “right first time”? Philip Crosby was the man behind the philosophy of “zero defects”, a phrase popularised in his 1979 book Quality is Free.

A high proportion of CEOs and board-level executives see HR as adding less strategic value than any other major function, according to DDI general manager Simon Mitchell.

Millennial employees (those born after 1994) claim to be less motivated by money than Gen Y (born between 1980 and 1994), according to a report by Randstad and Millennial Branding.

Encouraging employees to help people into work can benefit companies' learning and development programmes, according to a report by the CIPD.

The majority of IT professionals are concerned companies are not effectively using the data they collect, according to research by IT jobs board CWJobs.

Two-thirds of graduates regret the first job they take when they start work, according to global research by CEB.

Employers and industry experts have reacted positively to the government's Get In, Go Far apprenticeship campaign.

It’s been interesting reading about the fears of some employers in the face of the extension of the right to request flexible working beyond the previous categories of parents and carers.

Lancaster University's Work Foundation has criticised the government's "watered down" implementation of the Raising the Participant Age (RPA) policy.