Mediate to alleviate: reducing workplace stress

Yesterday was the 14th National Stress Awareness Day. The day was organised by the International Stress Management Association UK (ISMA-UK), a not-for-profit organisation which promotes wellbeing and...

An independent approach to resolving cover-ups in the work place

When cover-ups in an organisation make the national headlines, it is associated with high profile corporate scandals.

Video: Lynda Gratton reveals the new role of leadership in organisations

Lynda Gratton (pictured), professor of management at London Business School and the second Most Influential UK Thinker in 2012, talks about the three most critical areas leaders and organisations need...

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Why business should become more dementia aware

By 2030, there will be 15 million people over the age of 65 in the UK. After a century of advances in medical science, sanitation and nutrition, people today are living longer than ever before.

Managing alcohol problems in the workplace: treatment works

It is almost inevitable that at one time or another a senior HR professional will be confronted by the dilemma of what to do about someone in the workplace who has an alcohol dependency problem.

Who owns people development? Not HR

"In a big organisation like ours," explained my lunch companion Charles, the managing director at the sharp end of a global investment bank, "all that people stuff is done by HR".

Michael Moran, CEO of 10Eighty, calls for more role models in HR

Michael Moran, chief executive of HR Most Influential sponsor 10Eighty, argues that HR needs more role models and needs to be more business savvy.

Mitigating against potential fraudsters

As the trial against the former UBS trader, Kweku Adoboli continues this week, Rupert Emson, CEO of Vero Screening explores the role of ongoing monitoring in identifying potential fraudsters and...

Dean Royles, director at NHS Employers and the HR Most Influential Practitioner 2012, discusses how important HR is to the business

Royles talks about how HR can be influential and the role it plays in the challenges faced by the NHS.

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HR needs to put customer at heart of everything it does says RSA Insurance group HR director

RSA Group, the UK’s second largest general insurer and owner of the More Than brand, is embedding a ‘Think Customer’ strategy throughout its global business following a successful test in its...

Paul Lambert V Norwich City: It is a myth that resignations need to be accepted before they are binding

The recent high profile departure of Paul Lambert from Norwich City to become manager of Aston Villa raises a number of interesting questions about departing senior executives. With both parties...

Olympics inspires London hotel's diversity and customer service training programme

This month as HR magazine unveils the results of its Diversity Survey, 2012 one of the main findings to come out of the study was that not enough HR directors are putting strategies in place to...