The value of the dual operating system

We need organisational structures that combine hierarchies and networks

Critics of Ulrich Model ignore new progress, says Dave Ulrich

Dave Ulrich has responded to a paper on 18 years of the Ulrich Model by saying the report ignores the many updates and adaptations that have been published since it was originally conceived.

Less complex businesses are better places for everyone to work

Last September, we unveiled research by then Warwick Business School and now Henley professor Simon Collinson and consultancy Simplicity Partnership. It found the biggest 200 global companies were...

HR Forum: HR needs to raise its performance, says the Met HR boss

HR staff nationally are not adding value and are under threat of being budgeted out, according to the Metropolitan Police Service's HR director.

From the front line: Open your minds to co-creation

HR must leave no source untapped if it is to produce big ideas to transform the function.

A partnership of equals

Line managers spend half their time on HR and outsourcing accounts for only 10% of the HR budget. Lucie Carrington analyses the <i>Human Resources</i>/Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow survey results

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Chief destruction officer

Slayer of shibboleths and destroyer of corporate myths, Ricardo Semler, Semcos majority owner, has given HR the thumbs down. Morice Mendoza discovers whether Brazils Semco is the prototype heralding...

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