Tony Pettengell

As long as there is work there will be bullying – get used to it.

With all the banks going into meltdown, it seems that Sir Fred Goodwin was the straw that broke the camel’s...

Does HR have lessons to learn from Dickens and Lionel Bart?

John Sergeant, the BNP and the CIPD make unlikely bedfellows, but the former political editor's recent actions show the institute how to act.

Their naked ambition nearly brought the world to its knees, so let's expose the shortcomings of the City's slackers.

The CIPD seems to be taking business lessons from toothsome Sixties musical legend Tommy Steele.

The Equality Bill is a good start but it cannot ensure equality for women without tackling the underlying cause of discrimination.

Is ‘horse whispering’ really a useful leadership tool, or a waste of time? Tony Pettengell investigates – video camera in...

Blame has got a bad name. But if HR wants to demonstrate its value, it really ought to start pointing...

Warning: any member of the kneejerk brigade should have their hammers at the ready, and should begin tapping their patellas...

Age discrimination laws have had one beneficial side effect – they allow us to explode the pensions timebomb myth.In 1798,...

The Spanish government has paraded its mostly female cabinet to great applause from around the world – the first European country...

In a future workplace run by robots without any migrant labour, would there be a place for HR?

Much has been written in the pages of Personnel Today about HR with oomph, and more often HR’s lack of...

“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “to talk of many things“Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages...