The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has called for an improvement to work experience in the UK, in order to help tackle youth unemployment and to help improve perceptions about the value of work placements. The CIPD has partn  More...
30 June 2011 15:12

Public sector employers can prevent escalating strike action by communicating the benefits of being employed in the sector, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has claimed. The comments come as thousands of teachers and civil   More...
27 June 2011 16:38

The recent CIPD HR Software Show 2011, held at London's Olympia, provided a good insight into how employers might be putting software and technology to use in the near future. With technology's general shift in the direction of social media, ap  More...
27 June 2011 15:52

One employer in four (26%) has already frozen or will freeze pay this year and just under one in 10 (9%) has decided to delay pay reviews, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's (CIPD) annual reward survey. However, the   More...
26 May 2011 14:41

As the UK comes out of recession, the country could see a "jobless recovery" resulting in economic growth without accompanying jobs growth, according to Dennis Turner, chief economist at HSBC. Speaking at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Deve  More...
26 May 2011 11:39

The Institute of Directors (IoD) has refuted yesterday's claims by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) that business overstates the impact of employment regulation, and has suggested that HR is the "biggest vested interest of all  More...
24 May 2011 16:29

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has published a revised code of professional conduct, which has been issued for consultation today. Clear standards of ethics, integrity, behaviour and competence lie at the heart of the dra  More...
11 May 2011 15:55

The London-based rival to the CIPD's annual conference, which was revealed exclusively by Personnel Today yesterday , has now been officially launched. HR Performance, a conference and exhibition that will host up to 4,000 delegates, will take   More...
03 February 2011 15:30

London will host a major HR exhibition and conference this autumn to rival the CIPD's Manchester-based annual event. Personnel Today has learnt that the National Hall at the Olympia exhibition complex in Kensington has been booked in October for an   More...
02 February 2011 09:32

A handful of top senior HR professionals have taken up new roles as vice presidents (VPs) at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Clare Chapman, Stephen Frost and Katharine Turner were appointed vice presidents of three  More...
08 December 2010 11:37

Imelda Walsh, who left her position as HR director at Sainsbury's in the summer, told the CIPD conference yesterday that being authentic was the key to a successful HR function. Walsh admitted that she could have done more to improve the busine  More...
10 November 2010 09:13

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has strongly defended its campaign to challenge perceptions of a career in HR , following criticism of the "Think HR, Think Again" slogan that accompanies it. The initiative, whic  More...
01 October 2010 15:51

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has launched a new drive to challenge misconceptions about HR and attract new talent to the profession. "Think HR. Think Again"  aims to raise the profile of the profession a  More...
30 September 2010 11:31

Portsmouth Business School is leading the way in publishing student textbooks for human resource management programmes. Three out of four of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) core textbooks are authored and edited by Busin  More...
04 August 2010 13:31

The travel chaos caused by the volcanic eruption in Iceland has hit the heart of the HR community, with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) forced to cancel the first day of its International Federation of Training and Developmen  More...
19 April 2010 15:51

The parties have now unveiled their election manifestos. Here Personnel Today outlines how their different policies will affect employers. Flexible working Party pledges: Labour pledged to increase statutory paternity pay from two to f  More...
16 April 2010 17:50

Learning and development professionals have been forced to adopt more efficient training practices over the past year after budgets were slashed during the recession, research has revealed. The 2010 Learning and Development Survey from the Charter  More...
13 April 2010 17:22

A leading diversity expert has called on the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) to take "positive action" to increase the number of HR professionals from ethnic minority backgrounds. Atul Shah, founder of consultancy Diverse Eth  More...
04 March 2010 14:12

Atul Shah (pictured below), founder of Diverse Ethics, looks at the importance of diversity in the HR sector. At a recent seminar, a senior adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) publicly said that, as an organisation,  More...
03 March 2010 15:05

DPG plc is the first national Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Centre to gain the CIPD’s approval to deliver the Certificate in HR Practice (which replaces the old Certificate in Personnel Practice) and the Certificate in  More...
01 March 2010 17:09