Post-financial crisis, is building society Nationwide emerging as a credible challenger to Britain’s biggest banks? All signs point to yes.

Siemens chief executive Joe Kaeser is facing a backlash from unions after the German manufacturing company announced it would make job cuts affecting up to 11,600 staff globally.

Your company may have a health and wellbeing strategy in place – but is it really working? Making sure employees are happy, healthy and more engaged in their wellbeing boosts productivity – and saves...

International law firm Eversheds has appointed Moira Slape as its HR director.

Recent entrants to the workforce are increasingly asking if it’s really worth the effort to work harder, longer and faster. They seem to be questioning whether it’s worth aspiring to climb the next...

HR directors should negotiate for their teams to cut down on administrative tasks and re-focus on strategic goals, according to Atos HR services delivery director Martin Riley.

In order to be resilient to change, companies must innovate and interact with their employees. They cannot ignore the social wealth and knowledge that staff bring to the workplace.

Public sector organisations are increasingly having to fend off private sector companies looking to hire their top performers, according to Hertfordshire County Council HR director Louise Tibbert.

Although the economy is improving, it has been a difficult 12 months for HR directors. None have risen to the challenge more than the ten HRDs shortlisted in this year’s HR Excellence Awards.

“People are our most important asset,” proclaim CEOs so often that this cliché has almost become a parody of itself.

Fittingly for a multimedia publisher, Hearst Magazines’ HRD has adapted her department to play to the creative strengths of the company’s workforce and its individual brands for the benefit of the...

The latest bon mot of Lucy Adams, former BBC HR director, is that “Appraisals don’t work”, In her view, they simply serve to strike fear in the hearts of employees.