Strategic HR

Kiren Vadher: We need evidence-based family-friendly policies at work

Recording data around flexible working and family-friendly policies is crucial to tackling inequality in the workplace and reducing the gender pay gap

Working Families' most family-friendly workplaces revealed

Working Families has announced its annual list of the top family-friendly employers in the UK

HR Most Influential book club

We've rounded up some of the best books by HR thinkers and practitioners that made it onto our HR Most Influential lists past and present

Liberata HRD: Employers must commit to ending violence at work

Liberata is the first private sector employer to sign Unison's End Violence at Work Charter

Exploring the OD concept of 'use of self'

?The concept of use of self (UoS) has been core to the practice of organisational development since the beginning

The face of HR influence

This year has been an uncertain one, so all the more reason to celebrate those guiding the HR profession through the turbulence

Over-50s more likely to be unemployed

?Those aged 50 to 64 are 37% more likely to be unemployed for more than two years than under-50s, according to analysis from jobsite Rest Less

Women missing out on statutory sick pay

?One in 10 women (10%) don’t earn enough to qualify for statutory sick pay, according to the TUC

Women lose state pension legal battle

Women who were born in the 1950s will not be compensated for the money they missed out on when the state pension age was raised from 60 to 65

How to transform dysfunctional teams

Team members need a psychologically-safe environment and an agreed shared set of values

Vlatka Hlupic: New leadership needed in the fourth Industrial Revolution

At a Global Peter Drucker Forum 2019 pre-event Hlupic shared how leaders and organisations can make the shift to become more human

Patrick Spencer: State pension age must be raised

A recent proposal to up the state pension age to 75 has been received with concern by employers and think tanks