Employers can shy away from adding to their benefits programme for cost reasons - yet all research points to employee benefits as a key recruitment and retention tool. How can you balance the...

Looking at the benefits budget from an outsider's perspective, it's relatively easy to see a large number and assume it can be trimmed without your employees really caring - or even noticing.

Workforce planning has been around for years, but is making a comeback as a scientific discipline.

HR directors have been advised not to look to their competitors to benchmark HR ideas, but to look inside their own organisations

The CIPD launched its much-anticipated Next Generation HR speech last night, calling on the next breed of HR professionals to be the builders of "organisational equity" and to be their organisations'...

Great leaders ultimately fail because they focus too much on the situational issues of today and miss changes in the context around them.

HR must be an applied business discipline and business in turn must be an applied HR discipline, the CIPD boss has warned the industry.

HR has a choice: it can either sit back and watch the world of work evolving or it can help shape it, according to Lynda Gratton, professor of management practice at London Business School.Gratton,...

More than eight in 10 employees feel anxious over their personal finances, with 1.4 million Britons taking time off work in the past 12 months as they struggle to cope.

Royal Mail has angrily rejected claims by the BBC that it is planning to press on with modernisation regardless of what happens in negotiations with the Communication Workers Union (CWU).

Westminster Council will operate under a 'radically different structure' from next week to make it more efficient and set a blueprint for other councils to follow.

Female workers are on average less productive than their male colleagues, according to new research