HR transformation: what can you achieve if you think afresh?

As we enter a new year full of opportunities and challenges, will the HR glass be half full or half empty? One area in which HR can make huge strides through implementing HR transformational...

ILM appoints Charles Elvin as chief executive

The Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) has appointed Charles Elvin (pictured) as its chief executive today (18 January 2012).

Interview with Helene Speight, group head of talent at Endava

If you put the name ‘Helene Speight’ into Google, you’ll be met with a barrage of news about Lord Alan Sugar’s television show, The Apprentice, where she came runner-up to the ‘reverse pterodactyl’...

Death of a quango: interview with Nick Gargan, CEO of the National Policing Improvement Agency

It is not every day the CEO of an organisation, soon to be closed, invites a journalist to lunch to talk about strategy, but a few weeks ago I received that very phone call from Nick Gargan...

Ashurst appoints Sasha Hardman as global HRD

Law firm Ashurst has appointed Sasha Hardman as its new global HR director

Krispy Kreme appoints Claire Giraldo as head of HR

Doughnut retailer, Krispy Kreme UK, has appointed Claire Giraldo as head of HR and training

Exclusive: The six competencies to inspire HR professionals for 2012

Modern HR must take on many roles to demonstrate competence and effectiveness, say DAVE ULRICH, JON YOUNGER, WAYNE BROCKBANK and MIKE ULRICH, who celebrate 25 years of research. Can HR turn base...

Interview with Tracey Killen, group personnel director at the John Lewis Partnership

I had been talking handbags with Tracey Killen, group personnel director at the John Lewis Partnership (JLP), for half an hour before we even started to discuss HR strategy. I am not ashamed to admit...

Balance is key: between operations and innovation; staff satisfaction and productivity; and family and business

Education is not just a public good, but also our business. The Government’s intention to encourage a market in higher education has prompted debate, but as a private institution, the London School...

Interview with Richard Harpin, CEO of Homeserve

He’s fidgeting. Stolen glances at his watch have been replaced by full-blown dial gripping. My time is up, and he’s desperate to leave. “That’s your half hour, isn’t it?” It is spoken cheerfully, but...

Interim managers: the A-Team of the business world, or expensive temps?

Interims have been perceived as many things – consultants by another name, retirees in search of a purpose, permanent managers who are ‘between jobs’ and even destroyers of business culture and...

Rank insider: interview with Sue Waldock, group HRD of the Rank Group

What could silver screen siren Celia Johnson, troubled comedian Michael Barrymore and staid old photocopiers have in common?