People strategy, motivation, communication and training have helped Morrisons increase its half-year profits by 45%, according to its HR director, Norman Pickavance (pictured).

Bruce Forsyth has announced he will be taking a pay cut this year for the forthcoming series of Strictly Come Dancing and added TV stars "have always been overpaid".

Last month HR magazine invited HR directors and industry experts to debate the role of talent, performance, technology, flexible working and management in the workplace of the future, in an exclusive...

Cable and Wireless (C&W), the global telecommunications company, has restructured its HR department, and re-named the function 'People and Brand', HR magazine can exclusively reveal.

Liz Bell HR director at B&Q, joins the company's board of directors.

So the big idea is deferring bonuses. Granted there was much pressure on the Financial Services Authority from our powerful financiers to water down its code of practice for employee remuneration.

Bill Buchan has joined Sodexho as HR director for its UK and Ireland healthcare division.

HR is in danger of training staff not to think by over-managing talent and implementing "ridiculous" policies.

How will high performance be created in the future? What role will technology play? These were two of the themes industry experts debated at a round-table event, chaired by Sian Harrington.

With its recent mergers/demergers and acquisitions there is change on every front at The Carphone Warehouse - a significant part of it initiated by HRD Lynne Weedall.

I began my career as an HR officer at Avance, a large bakery business in Maidstone, Kent.

Jane Roberts has been promoted to director of HR at Domino's Pizza Group.