Workforce planning, also commonly known as “succession planning” is the process whereby employers ensure that it has enough people with the right skills and leadership potential to step into business-critical positions at the right time.
Another high-profile Whitehall HR professional has been seconded to work in the private sector.Susie Maxwell, who had most recently been...
Retailers are wasting nearly 10% of wages by inefficiently assigning working hours to staff, costing them almost £2bn annually, research...
An obsession with restructuring HR departments to be more strategic often leaves staff struggling to cope in their new roles,...
Employees older than 40 are prepared to work well into their 70s to ensure a quality retirement, according to a...
Health and Safety Executive chair Judith Hackitt has called on HR professionals to ensure lessons learned from disasters such as...
Global assignments are a great way to keep staff engaged, but they need to be handled carefully, discovers Virginia Matthews.
Kronos today announces UK availability of Efficient Access, a 100 percent real-time, web-based access control solution developed to meet the...
Organisations face losing skilled managers by not investing in their development and failing to motivate them, new research has suggested.The...
Does occupational health live up to its name? Or is it time that its job title caught up with its role in the modern workplace? Nic Paton investigates the possibilities.
As the demographic timebomb continues to tick, Helen Arnold's research reveals that occupational health is not getting to grips with the requirements of the ageing workforce.
Work and pensions secretary James Purnell has insisted that employers should keep faith with the government’s employment ambitions despite the...
Rising stars at technology firm HP are being told to work abroad to avoid getting stuck in a rut by...
The lack of a permanent NHS workforce director could have played a part in the junior doctor jobs fiasco last...
From our 50s onwards, our thoughts tend to turn towards a wisteria-bedecked cottage, but today, with more than a million...
We have a similar situation to that of Liverpool Football Club, which admitted to holding talks with a potential replacement...
