HR is failing to engage employee hearts and minds

True engagement means leaders have to focus on creating the right culture

Cary Cooper: Creating a vision employees connect with

What is it that engages us? It’s a question that sits at the heart of any modern HR department.

Fairhurst: Predicting the future of retention and engagement

Retention and engagement are key business issues around the world. But unlike other global people challenges they may prove to be bigger than HR alone.

Cooper: Engagement programmes have had no impact on wellbeing

Most employee engagement programmes have had no impact on staff health and wellbeing, according to Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology and health at Lancaster University Management...

Pret's people management secrets

As Pret a Manger expands its global reach, the focus is on building and maintaining a happy workforce

Engagement adds to the bottom line, research finds

Recent Hay Group research provides strong evidence of a causal link between employee engagement and business performance.

Informed and engaged employees impact performance

Recent research from Hay Group, derived from their database of 7 million employees globally, provides strong evidence of a causal link between employee engagement and business performance.

How to break out of the low pay, low productivity cycle

Despite the good news around ?employment figures, the UK still seems to be stuck in ?a low pay, low ?productivity cycle.

Employee engagement in a democratised workplace

Traditional hierarchies are being eroded. The rise of individualism has been steadily growing and evolving. Generation Y, often painted by the media as educated and ambitious, has heralded this new...

CIPD 2014: UK plc must embrace ‘transformational’ employee engagement

UK businesses must embrace ‘transformational’ employee engagement or risk not being able to compete globally, according to Engage for Success duo David MacLeod and Nita Clarke.

CIPD 2014: Employer/employee relationship should be ‘strategic alliance’

A 'strategic alliance' between an employer and its staff should replace traditional concepts of loyalty in modern organisations, according to Columbia Business School associate professor of management...

Cary Cooper: There are two sides to flexibility

New underemployment figures hint at the polarising effects of flexibility without balance.