A record number of small business owners are planning to close their firms over the next 12 months, a survey by the FSB has found.
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Coronavirus puts onus on boards to sort out their succession planning.
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Gartner study also finds a lack of diversity is undermining confidence and trust in leadership.
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Compulsory retirement may be on the agenda as Covid exposes weaknesses in the boardroom. Ivor Adair looks at the risks for firms with a partnership structure.
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Business group the CBI has told MPs that “hundreds of thousands” of jobs could be at risk due to the...
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Rather than run the risk of being caught out by the extension of off-payroll working rules to the private sector,...
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Justine Woolf, director of consulting at Innecto, part of the Personal Group Family, will discuss how embracing technology and taking...
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The National Probation Service, the organisation that supervises high-risk offenders in the community, is hampered by staff shortages...
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Employee engagement and performance management have traditionally been two separate facets of HR’s role. But both need to be better aligned for organisations to get the most from their people.
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How to stop your workforce going under when business is close to collapse
by Barry Rossby Barry RossWith the recent collapse of Thomas Cook and other established companies in financial difficulty, such as Pizza Express and Links...
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The CBI’s quarterly industrial trends survey has seen the fastest fall in headcount since April 2010, with firms anticipating an...
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The UK's service sector, which makes up 80% of the country's economy, contracted in September prompting fears of a recession.
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As the Rugby World Cup gets under way in Japan, Dr Austin Swain examines the brutal honesty that exists in...
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This HR-finance partnership is hugely valuable to organisations if they can get it right. But new research has revealed collaboration is proving difficult to instigate.
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Researchers in the US have found that collaboration among teams is welcome but that it should be limited to achieve...