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Last year’s winners of the Personnel Today HR Excellence Award take up their prize, a challenging teambuilding event
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Firms are failing to meet legal obligations to staff attacked by clients. Paul Nelson reports Prime Minister Tony Blair raised the profile of violence in the workplace during his election …
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Carol Clarke has joined technology provider Qiagen as the HR manager for its UK office based in Crawley, West Sussex. She joins from Fuller, Smith and Turner, where she was …
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What value does a visit to a retreat actually add to the life of a busy senior HR executive? Does it allow them to reprioritise goals to make them more efficient at work or just provide a welcome break from the stresses that are part of life today in HR? We send our features writer Phil Boucher to a stately home and a monastery to find out
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As the headlong rush to offload as many of HR’s traditional areas of responsibility to overworked line managers continues at a frenetic pace, we may be in danger of throwing …
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A code of practice on racial discrimination seeks to clarify rules on the immigration status of potential employees
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A fifth of dotcom companies are allowing staff to take dogs into the office in a bid make conditions better at work and to combat skills shortages, according to research …
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The image of a stereotypical entrepreneur may be of a single minded, driven personality but the reality can be very different. We profile eight well-known entrepreneurs who not only seized …
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Being appoin`ted a non-executive director to the right company can be a shrewd career development move but as Rob McLuhan discovers HR professionals, who often lack actual board experience, may …
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Follow my leader used to be the edict in the ruthless Thatcher days. But, discovers Caroline Horn, leadership has changed radically in the past 20 years and these changes can …
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Today’s successful global HR manager must boast many special skills. He or she must be highly organised and absorb copious knowledge on a country’s local culture. In a seven-point guide …
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HR has long suffered from problems in selling the value of its services to the board. But the time has come for senior members to press its case for taking …
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The CBI has reacted angrily to the passing of the EU directive on staff consultation by the social policy council earlier today. “Companies will find this really difficult to swallow. …
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The AEEU union backs the Government’s plans to introduce private management into the public sector. Speaking at the union’s Conference today in Blackpool the AEEU’s leader, Ken Jackson, who is …
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European ministers have voted through the controversial EU directive on staff consultation at the social policy council meeting today in Luxembourg. The proposal was third on the agenda, and experts …