If an ability to deal with difficult people situations is a prerequisite for an HR director, then Vanessa Evans got off to a flying start. On taking over as manager of an Early Learning Centre in...
Speaking at HR Performance yesterday in London, Esther O’Halloran, MD and former HRD of bakery and patisserie chain Paul UK, said that HR directors could make the leap to running a company, but that...
Kate Chapman will be joining UK recruiter Michael Page in January 2013 in the newly created role.
Influencing people is more vital than ever in today’s challenging and uncertain work environment.
Wellbeing schemes are not new. But since they initially emerged much has changed. They have evolved from seeing wellbeing as health and safety guidelines that seek to do no harm, to a wide range of...
Being a small company has its challenges, and FMI Group has had to overcome more than most. When our parent company went bust in 2009, we had to rebuild the business from the ground up – it hasn’t...
One in three people have suffered some form of bullying at work, according to a survey by One Poll.
Chancellor George Osborne may have put the cat among the pigeons when he unveiled his proposal for ‘employee-owners’ at the Conservative party conference last month, whereby workers in SMEs and...
At the HR magazine HR Excellence Awards in 2011 we named Jo Sims, who was then group head of HR at Access, as our rising star, saying: “It can surely only be a matter of time before an HR director...
The disparity and perceived unfairness of directors receiving large salaries and bonus payments compared to other workers is a continuing rumble in the press.
UK employees are not seeing any benefit from appraising their own performance according to research published today by recruitment consultancy Badenoch and Clark.
UK entrepreneurs have made a call for young people to develop an 'employ yourself' attitude, starting up their own business rather than trying to get a job when faced with high youth unemployment and...
