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Job evaluation, grading or job levelling has been with us for a long time. Although its relative importance has waxed and waned, it remains a perennial feature of most HR functions.

Lewis Armstrong, people and culture advisor at ISS Facility Services UK, shares his vision for the future of the profession.

For the past 25 years, the Human Resource Competency Study or HRCS has chronicled the evolution of HR performance and professionalism.

A criticism often levelled at HR professionals is that they are useless at communicating. Bewildering, I know, for people whose role is to act as an interface between the business and its employees....