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...

The Department of Healths HR director, Andrew Foster, is at the heart of plans to modernise the NHS. Peter Oborne talks to him about the sheer scale of his task

Denise Kingsmill of the Competition Commission makes a powerful advocate for the greater involvement of women in senior management, says Adam Leyland

Time was running out for Foyles, the quirky London bookshop, until Christopher Foyle took charge and set about bringing it into the 21st century. Adam Leyland reports on progress