HR strategy

A poor growth in productivity levels in the UK is down to public sector failings, despite massive boost in public...

Holiday firm First Choice has embarked on a 90-day consultation with 150 back-office HR, finance and ticketing staff about outsourcing...

Award profile: This award recognises the HR teams that have successfully created an HR shared services function or outsourced part...

The Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) has teamed up with recruitment firm Manpower to launch a new global HR research...

Insurance giant Norwich Union – which announced massive job cuts earlier this month – claims to have saved £2.3m after...

Public sector union Unison has dropped its application for a judicial review of the government’s decision to outsource the NHS’s...

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has awarded the contract for the recruitment, payroll and training of staff for the...

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and IBM have launched a professional development scheme to benchmark standards in the...

If you are seeking tangible results from training, then a dash of corporate social responsibility may be just the job....

Employers are exploiting outsourced workers by removing them from their occupational pension schemes, it was claimed at the TUC conference.Tony...

Evaluating human capital management can be a simple process, so why are HR professionals finding it so hardto measure?

When, at a recent event, an HR director told occupational philosopher Roger Steare that having a policy on ethics was...

HR jobs at Aviva, the UK’s biggest insurer, will be lost after the firm unveiled plans to cut 4,000 jobs...

Surrey County Council has saved more than £9m in the past four years by dramatically slashing the number of jobs...

Dianne Thompson, chief executive of the National Lottery, has been awarded the Chartered Management Institute’s (CMI) annual Gold Medal for...