HR strategy

The smiling and confident image of the nation's HR professionals has been shattered by a poll highlighting them as the most unhappy workers in the UK. Michael Millar reports

Who is really making a difference in HR? We put the names to the faces as we identify this year's big hitters and find out who has topped the charts for 2005

I was recently invited to join the question and answer panel for the Richmond Events HR Forum, which was attended...

The proportion of employees recruited into UK organisations from abroad is increasing, according to the latest Recruitment Confidence Index (RCI)....

UK managers are not doing enough to encourage their staff to put forward innovative ideas, researchers have warned.A survey of...

Michael Millar examines just how careful companies need to be when monitoring the activities of those in their supply chain if they want to protect their own corporate reputation

Commuters in Northern Ireland are being urged to leave the car at home and cycle to work as part of Bike2Work week, which begins today.

Employees of Transport for London (TfL) are provided with free tea, coffee and mineral water worth more than £1m a year.

Companies that outsource their IT operations to offshore locations are increasingly dissatisfied with the service they are getting

David Arculus, chairman of mobile phone company O2, has been elected as deputy president of the CBI at its annual general meeting held in London

Outsourcing has established itself as a standard business practice among UK companies, according to research

Human capital management will return to the top of the HR agenda next week when a common set of standards for rating how well an organisation is capitalising on the value of its staff is launched

The Newbury Index Rating reveals the state of HCM in UK organisations. Daniel Thomas reports

Keith Rodgers takes a look outside the UK to see how two organisations are making a success of performance management

The CIPD strongly believes that outsourcing HR services is one route that HR functions can take to achieve a more strategic and influential role within their organisations. Michael Millar looks at the benefits and the nitty gritty of outsourcing your payroll