Companies that are ‘highly skilled’ in core HR practices experience up to 3.5 times the revenue growth and as much as 2.1 times the profit margins of less capable companies, according to new research...
Young Scots between the age of 16 and 24 working across Scotland’s pubs, hotels and restaurants are being given the chance to take a ‘MAP Year’ to enhance their career prospects, courtesy of Scotish...
Surrey County Council has encouraged contractors chasing local authority deals, to include apprenticeships in their bids.
Diversity is constantly in the news and HR magazine is launching a survey to find out what UK employers think. In the past month, for instance, prime minister David Cameron was forced to suggest...
The formality of office attire often diminishes as temperatures rise. Whilst suits, ties and long-sleeved blouses might seem ideal in the winter, they can be uncomfortable and irritating in the...
The number of workers reporting unreasonable levels of stress is more than three times higher if their working hours were inflexible, according to research by the Kenexa High Performance Institute...
Channel 4 has launched its first scholarship programme, which will see allow two successful applicants to be placed within the channel's audience, technologies and insight (AT&I) department for three...
Over the past six years, companies with at least some female board representation outperformed those with no women on the board in terms of share price performance, according to the latest study by...
Nine out of 10 UK companies rely on traditional interviews to ensure a match between the employee and corporate culture but only 28% are implementing pre-employment screening tests, a study of 169 HR...
Three-quarters (73%) of employees have said their organisation offers them no form of financial support or advice to help them better understand and manage their finances.
Awareness of the benefits of psychometric assessments among HR professionals and managers has grown steadily over the past few decades, from its mainstream introduction in the 1980s, when the idea...
While the number of employees on international assignments has remained relatively stable over recent years, the percentage of ‘global nomads’ (employees who move from country to country on multiple...
