If one adopts a general definition of employee engagement as employees giving additional, discretionary effort at work, what’s not to like? Engagement can drive innovation and performance – essential...

At the launch of Government-backed movement Engage for Success in November last year, a powerful video was shown. In it, a young man rails to the camera about how organisations in the UK should “give...

In the first of our five-day feature series on engagement, we talk to Ken Allen (pictured), CEO of DHL Express, who has just invested €100 million in a company-wide engagement initiative.

In March 2009, in Pontonx-sur-l’Adour, south-west France, Serge Foucher, CEO of Sony France, was taken hostage by workers in one of the company’s factories, which was due to close with the loss of...

Have you heard of LOL? I don’t mean today’s text talk for ‘laugh out loud’. Nor the ‘lots of love’ that ended every smitten Seventies girl’s letter to her sweetheart and recently made famous by...

Rexam, the global consumer packaging company, has appointed Nikki Rolfe (pictured) as group HR director.

Public transport provider Go-Ahead has appointed Val Proctor as group HR director.

Ron Garrow has been appointed as chief human resources officer at MasterCard.

With the skills gap still a major issue in workplaces today, a number of recent reports have pointed towards giving employers more involvement in the design of training programmes. It was interesting...

The Co-operative Group has announced the appointment of Rebecca Skitt (pictured) as its group HR director.

There’s a scene in the 2005 award-winning satirical film Thank You for Smoking where Nick Naylor, chief spokesman and lobbyist for Big Tobacco, goes to a bar to meet best friends Polly Bailey from the...

Sarah Bater has joined biopharmaceutical company Celgene as its HR director for the UK and Ireland.