Trust in senior leaders falls to two-year low

The number of employees who trust and have confidence in their organisation's senior leadership has fallen.

Leadership: influencing what matters

Leadership is usually thought about in the context of elected politics or big business and so the idea becomes a rather distant one, practised by people we read about or see on television. Leadership...

Lynda Gratton: Companies must interact with communities to build resilience

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.

CEOs urged to be more sincere about gender equality

CEOs must articulate personal reasons for backing gender parity in the workplace if they really want to encourage more women in to top roles, research has suggested.

One year on: Lord Davies reports largest ever annual increase of women on boards

Lord Davies of Abersoch will today publish the first annual progress report on his review of Women on Boards.

Board diversity is more than a ‘shop window’ but can lead to a real prize for business, FTSE 250 told

Steven Holliday, chief executive at National Grid addressed FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 leaders this morning saying: “Board diversity may be the ‘shop window’ but the real prize for business is to ensure...

Bosses fail to show the qualities employees require from their leaders

Good communication, the ability to motivate, and integrity are seen by UK workers as the most important attributes to lead a successful business – but the majority of bosses don't show these qualities...

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Chief Executives: Get to know your staff

One of my clients was recently asked to participate in the Channel 4 programme, Undercover Boss, but had to decline because, despite being a company of over 400 people, every single employee knows and...

Focus on development of HR teams plummets down corporate agenda in 2011

The development of HR teams has drastically fallen down the corporate agenda for 2011, according to research seen exclusively by HR magazine.

Senior staff members need to be "retrained or replaced", say HR professionals

HR professionals believe that 1 in 5 board members or senior executives just be retrained or replaced in order to improve innovation in their organisations.

It is time employers got engaged with employee engagement

The announcement of the new guidance on employee engagement by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is a welcome addition to the support available to organisations wishing to boost...

HR's future is as the voice of reason in business

The next generation of HR must undertake a more balanced approach to people management and adopt a brave stance as the voice of reason in business, according to Nationwide's head of employee...