Is the UK missing the skills it needs to sustain economic recovery? HR magazine explores the role of business and HR in averting disaster.
Nine out of 10 HR staff are still confident training will be vital in planning for recovery in 2010.
The frigid state of the UK economy is unlikely to thaw in the near term, with the second leg of a ‘double-dip’ recession forecast to take hold throughout 2012.
HR directors have seen their influence increase over the past 12 months, suggesting that the economic climate has provided fertile ground for a new breed of HRD.
The latest unemployment rates for the UK are chilling – 8.4% of the UK population is now unemployed (the highest for 17 years) and the 16-to-24-year-old age group make up 22.2% of this unemployment...
If we want to be a high-growth country, we might start by tackling a problem which is as old as capitalism itself: the gender pay gap.