Tony Ward cut his HR teeth dealing with militant unions, before going on to high-powered roles at blue chips like GrandMet and Kingfisher. Now at BAA, those industrial relations skills could prove...

After his baptism of fire in 1980s local government and manufacturing, Saudagar Singh is finding the grounding it provided very useful at npower. By Trevor Merriden

The HR function at food retailer Somerfield has been transformed out of all recognition since the arrival of Katie Peters. Larissa Bannister reports

The England rugby coachs biggest challenge is to create a highly motivated team from a disparate group of individuals, he tells Larissa Bannister

For Debbie Meech, Freeserves director of talent management, to be able to tell CEO John Pluthero what hes doing wrong takes a special kind of relationship. Steve Smethurst talks to them separately...

Prolific writer and head of The Work Foundation Will Hutton has personal experience of the kind of challenges HR managers face, says Stefan Stern

In the first of a series of interviews with business leaders on their views of the HR profession, Elaine Rowe talks to Simon Burke, executive chairman of Hamleys

As publisher of titles such as <i>Vogue</i> and <i>GQ</i>, Cond Nast doesnt find it hard to attract talented people. But managing director Nicholas Coleridge is one of the main reasons they stay, says...