Stephen Overell

After countless predictions of times of change, is the future of work still a permanent job, or more of a half-way house?

HR is the most complex and interesting of all managerial disciplines - that's why it goes in for bouts of introspection

The Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) is quite simply the most authoritative statement on life at work in the UK...

The origins of human capital management lie in the realisation that investing in people yields greater profit than machines

Britain's economic record of the past five years, unlike our arch-rivals, shows technology really does have a creative streak

It seems that women are having second thoughts about the wisdom of working and raising a family

We need to overcome both contempt for new jobs in the service sector and the worship of old-style manufacturing

The 'business case' for diversity is a lot more doubtful than campaigners pretend. That still leaves the moral case

Nottingham University is the site of an experiment in performance related pay that could have profound consequences for the life of academics. Stephen Overell reports

Were we conned by predictions about the end of work as we know it? An open letter to social philosopher, Charles Handy

It promised so much, but amounted to so little. The Accounting for People report has simply let the HR profession down

Eighty years on from the Hawthorne experiments, the secrets of employee motivation remain as mysterious as ever

For the sake of your sanity, the proposal that employers should do more to tackle domestic violence ought to be...

Anyone who feels oppressed by the volume of tribunal claims should take a quick look across the English Channel
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The trend for outsourcing has created a dramatic increase in ‘middlemania‘ – and it’s a disease that is infecting all...