HR strategy

More Whitehall departments in capability review; More employers close final salary pension schemes

Researching colonic irrigation and taking your boss's father to the seaside are all in a day's work for today's secretaries and PAs

Broadcasting union Bectu has warned that the new chief executive of ITV will be inheriting a demoralised workforce.

Cabinet Office has announced Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Ministry of Defence, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department for International Development will be undertaking Capability Reviews.

Risk-averse workforce is holding back progress.

London's Investors in People support agency defends the organisation against suggestions that it does not deliver commercial benefit

Staff to strike over privatisation plans at NHS Logistics.

Lack of volunteers forces international worker charity to seek top executives for short-term assignments.

In my career in the NHS, I have been faced with many challenges, but being asked to give oral evidence to the Health Select Committee on issues relating to NHS workforce planning has to be the greatest of them all.

HR director, Intelligent Office UK

Some events can spark corporate change on a monumental scale. Margaret Kubicek looks at the leading agents of change and how HR can respond.

The Exceptional ManagerAuthors: Rick Delbridge, Lynda Gratton andGerry JohnsonPrice: £25 Publisher: Oxford University PressPages: 264 ISBN: 0199292221
Buy this book...

HR sits at the centre of any change management process, so how can it ensure it hits the target? Margaret Kubicek finds out.

Managing a major £2m cost-cutting programme and laying off 13% of staff was a daunting task for the Housing Corporation's HR department, as Nic Paton discovers.

Intercontinental Hotels is spending $10m (£5.4m) on an employee engagement programme as part of a project to reposition its global brand