Four years ago the supermarket chain's human resources function was administration-heavy, disparate and lacked a common purpose. To play its part in Sainsbury's group-wide turnaround programme, Making...
Costs and budget have become the main priority of HR, taking precedent over strategy, recruitment, retention, motivation and training, according to a snapshot survey of HR magazine readers.
Perhaps it is unsurprising Hyder emerges as this category's winner. The engineering advisory and design consultancy's CSR report is integrated into the annual report and shows its CSR activity is a...
Not only does appliances company Indesit do annual human resources reviews to discover how the organisation can manage and cope with change, it does something about it, even when the work that needs...
In spite of having an employee base that ranges from highway maintenance men to call-centre workers and those caring for the elderly, Kent County Council can now claim to have developed an...
Sainsbury's recruits more than 35,000 employees each year, but many of its processes were time-consuming and distinctly 20th century, including having its HR teams spend hours sifting CVs and holding...
It is B&Q's insatiable desire to invest, innovate and take risks when it could have played safe that makes the DIY giant a worthy winner of HR magazine's Gold Award.
This book is better at explaining what motivation is than how to improve it, says Sean Howard, vice-president of SHL. But it provides great support and reference points for improving people...
For the 1,200 employees at British Gas's Cardiff call centre, absence sickness absence was a stubborn problem; at the end of 2008 employees were off sick on average one day a month, and 30 people were...
To mark its 40th anniversary in 2009, DIY chain B&Q set itself an ambitious target of delivering 300 million in profit and 300p per share by 2012.
A stounding and remarkable were just two of the adjectives used by judges to de-scribe an ambitious plan by Eurostar to change the company culture from one that celebrated its operational-efficiency...
Winner: Prudential UK and Europe
