HR strategy

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

Some of the largest investors in retail giant Wal-Mart have written an open letter to the US group demanding better employment practices after a series of damaging staffing scandals.

A Labour MP is to launch a private members Bill with the support of trade unions that would impose stringent safety duties on company directors, making them more personally accountable for workplace accidents or deaths

Hundreds of jobs at British American Tobacco (BAT) are at risk after the cigarette giant announced that it is moving production from its main UK factory to the Far East.

Men are spending double the time on the web in work time compared to their female counterparts according to research released by law firm Peninsula.

The threat of strikes by IT staff at Bradford council over job losses has stalled a £160m outsourcing deal that was due to be signed in May.

Health and beauty retailer Boots has signed a seven-year £400m deal to outsource part of its back-office operation.

Motoring services group RAC is to part company with group HR director Jill Nealon, following its takeover by insurance giant...

Swansea Council expects its controversial £150m IT outsourcing initiative to be completed by July, after IT staff were given assurances over their terms and conditions during the 10-year deal.

The head of HR at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted to making mistakes during last year's bitter pay dispute with the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union.

Personnel Today wanted to find out how much the Accounting for People taskforce cost. Here is the DTI's response in full.

Organisational change consultant, Leslie Benson, tells HR how to manage change

Kevin White, HR director at the Department of Work and Pensions, has faced some difficult times over the past few years. He talks exclusively to Mike Berry about those challenges.

The top tier of local government has collectively promised to save more than £1bn by the end of the financial...