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The BBC has appointed a new HR director to replace Gareth Jones, who announced his departure in March. Stephen Dando, former global HR director of Guinness, will join the corporation …
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An online travel agency is running an HR awareness week in May to boost morale among its dotcom staff. Ebookers.com is launching a series of initiatives to make staff aware …
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Karen Higginbottom reports from the HR management conference in Barcelona The introduction of e-HR has yielded savings of over £20m for IT services company Unisys. Hubert De Neve, HR business …
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HR experts are demanding that rules on employee records and the monitoring of staff communications need clarification to end the widespread confusion surrounding the data protection code. The CIPD wants …
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A recent House of Lords judgment may open the way for "injury to feelings" awards in unfair sacking claims. The House of Lords’ decision in Johnson v Unisys, 22 March …
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Can you gauge your Emotional Intelligence Quotient on the web for nothing? Sue Weekes puts a selection of free EQ-testing websites through their paces. As a well-adjusted, team-playing, empathic individual, …
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Allegations of institutional racism have been raised in an audit of HR practices in aid agencies. Daloni Carlisle-Pesic reports on two eye-witness accounts of how different treatments are meted out …
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Immense pressure on CEOs means that "CEO churn" is an increasing phenomenon. Stepehen Overell charts five recent high profile instances. February 2001: US management consultancy Arthur D Little dismisses chief …
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This week’s case roundup Interview process was discriminatory Anya v University of Oxford and another, unreported March 2001 Court of Appeal Anya, a black Nigerian, was one of 26 candidates …
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Market research company AC Nielsen has reduced staff turnover by 34 per cent by introducing an annual business effectiveness survey five years ago. Richard Savage, HR director for AC Nielsen …
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Telecoms giant Motorola has developed a scorecard system that assesses which employees have managerial potential and which are under-performing. The company, which recently announced plans to make 26,000 people redundant …
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Waiting for repairmen who do not turn up is not just annoying but contributes to 56 million lost working days in the UK every year. According to Abbey National’s annual …
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Only the fittest companies will survive 2001 intact, a leading HR academic claims. Stephane Garelli, professor at IMD Business School in Switzerland, said companies are going to have to retain …
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What is the point of the Code of Practice on the use of personal data in relationships between employers and staff? Given that we have had the Data Protection Act …
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Big Brother-style monitoring of staff was the biggest complaint against call centre operators by employees during the two-week operation of the TUC’s complaints hotline. Fifty-three per cent of the 733 …