The 10 HR directors on our shortlist for this year’s HR Excellence Awards HR director of the year have risen to the challenges thrown at them over the past 12 months.

People are living (and working) for longer, which has implications for employers' age strategies beyond older workers

Another day, another taxi, another HR exhibition – and all the paraphernalia that goes with it. As an HR professional, it wouldn’t be unheard of to make a career out of attending exhibitions, meeting...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are big business, but most fail or do not work out as well as planned – perhaps because HR is not involved till the last moment, if at all. It’s time HR was at the M&A...

The Olympic Games have passed without incident; meaning only two major events still have the potential for cataclysmic consequences for the UK in 2012. The first event is the ‘2012 phenomenon’,...