Strategic HR

Grocery industry extends unemployment initiative to schools

Britain's food and grocery sector is to extend the long-running employment programme Feeding Britain's Future into schools.

The rise of strengths-based recruitment

From hospitals to banks, strengths-based recruitment is gaining kudos as the best way to identify those applicants who will bring the most to an organisation, despite not necessarily being the most...

Public sector employers struggling to fill roles and retain talent

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.

Long-term unemployed may suffer with stress when returning to work, warns expert

People returning to work after long periods of unemployment may struggle the most with stress, according to Alistair Dornan, Capita Employee Benefits head of health and risk management.

Hearst Magazines HRD: The heart of a multi-brand publisher

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...

Business must recognise the benefits of volunteering, says think tank

Managers should recognise the benefit of employee volunteering and even offer staff extra leave to pursue it, according to the Scouting for Skills report by think tank Demos.

Cracking the code: a gender intelligent approach to developing corporate leaders

Female executives in the UK’s top companies are two times less likely to be promoted than men.

Barclays to axe 7,000 UK jobs this year

Embattled bank Barclays will cut 19,000 jobs worldwide by 2016, with 14,000 going by the end of 2014.

Poor wellbeing affects UK staff retention

A third of employees would consider leaving a company due to wellbeing concerns, according to research commissioned by employee benefits company Unum.

FTSE 100 companies fail to report on mental health

FTSE 100 companies are increasingly discussing employee engagement and wellbeing, but very few offer mental health support.

Expert panel to discuss changing employment dynamic

Three leading voices in HR will discuss the future of the relationship between employers and their staff in a HR Most Influential webcast at 1pm tomorrow.

VyT scraps ambition to ‘capitalise’ staff

Negative feedback has spurred the CIPD to remove an element of Valuing Your Talent that aimed to measure staff as a balance-sheet asset. But as the project’s launch date nears, professional divisions...