A new report claims to prove that flexible working has a positive impact on work performance and helps to reduce stress levels.
HR must leave no source untapped if it is to produce big ideas to transform the function.
As from April 2003, employees will have the right to ask for flexible working hours and employers will have to supply good business reasons for refusing the request. But theres more to it that being...
As head of HR at BP, Nick Starritt oversaw the 400 million-plus deal with Exult to outsource HR. Based on this experience he offers advice to others contemplating the outsourcing route
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
Human resources strategy is about to make a big splash in boardrooms, but in a powerful new disguise. Get ready to meet the director of organisational design. Stefan Stern investigates
Richard Donkin explains why he chose to relinquish a permanent post and embark on a portfolio career
The ideas of a US academic may help employers and employees define new ways of working, says Richard Donkin
HR should never be satisfied with its progress David Ulrich argues. There are four core areas which he believes need to be constantly worked on if it is to maximise its contribution to the modern...
Be warned. Downsizing is coming your way. Take Indian software workers in Silicon Valley, for example. Once so numerous and prosperous that they formed a cricket league, there are now 50,000 out of...
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...
