Organisations are still not doing enough to capture the knowledge imparted by an interim manager for reference in the future, research has found. Three-quarters of the 700 HR and finance interim professionals surveyed by HR consultancy Chiumento sa  More...
25 April 2007 11:11

The government's oft-sidelined Operating and Financial Reviews (OFRs) are still being used by half of FTSE 100 companies more than a year after chancellor Gordon Brown's controversial double U-turn, it has emerged. OFRs were designed to sit alongside  More...
16 February 2007 16:05

Half of the UK's IT workers feel that adapting to Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista , will distract them from more important issues and 63% believe it will have a negative financial impact on their organisation. In a survey of 150 IT ma  More...
01 February 2007 08:01

HR managers from London’s local authorities have pooled their experience and knowledge to develop a set of products for improving practice in local government. The Human Resources Improvement Programme was set up in 2005 to help HR professi  More...
18 December 2006 10:30

Eight out of 10 managers believe most of their work meetings are unnecessary or unproductive, according to a survey by recruitment firm HTW Selection. The poll of 2,000 managers across the UK also revealed that 82% of respondents agreed they were was  More...
22 November 2006 13:48

The UK's largest integrated HR and payroll system - the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) has added the 500,000th NHS employee onto the 'live' system. When complete, all 1.2 million NHS employees - about 7% of the UK workforce will be paid by   More...
22 November 2006 09:46

Tim Melville-Ross, chairman of housebuilder Bovis Homes, has been appointed as the new president of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Melville-Ross will use his role to call on employers to give genuine commitment to the development of the UK  More...
13 November 2006 08:02

Companies that send employees on international assignments are failing to capitalise on this investment and losing talented staff through inadequate arrangements for repatriation and professional development A study  of 3,450 expatriates - by profes  More...
09 November 2006 13:03

UK workers would stay in their jobs longer if their companies thanked them for their hard work more often and more effectively, research has shown A survey by mobile communications company O2 reveals that praise is important to employees of British  More...
09 November 2006 08:29

European countries combined have a knowledge economy as big as the US, but a failure to invest in learning has caused a slowdown in the continent's technological progress. This is the main finding of a report published today by the Work Founda  More...
12 October 2006 09:18

Major players in the shipping industry are forming an HR and benchmarking club intended to produce reliable salary and compensation data. Owners, ship managers and freight trading companies have signed up to the Tanker HR and Benchmarking Forum in t  More...
10 October 2006 12:33

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and IBM have launched a professional development scheme to benchmark standards in the IT industry. The scheme will help to ensure that IT professionals are of the right calibre with proven abilities  More...
21 September 2006 08:07

Payroll and other HR services covered in deal.  More...
18 July 2006 16:05

Measuring the impact of people has slipped off the agenda, warns Investors in People.  More...
14 July 2006 08:04

What motivates executives under the age of 40?  More...
11 July 2006 08:00

Media industries sign up to £12bn culture scheme.  More...
22 June 2006 08:45

Staff retention is the key as pay rises for IT staff in the public sector stay ahead of the market.  More...
16 May 2006 13:43

As everything turns digital, the role of IT staff just gets bigger. So you'd better start being nice to them.  More...
18 April 2006 08:00

As a disgruntled junior HR professional, I am at a loss to understand why HR departments haven't realised why so many of us leave our jobs due to lack of opportunity ( Personnel Today , 21 March). I have worked in HR for five years. I started out as a  More...
18 April 2006 00:00

IT security in the City compromised by gullible employees.  More...
16 February 2006 14:15