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    • Age discrimination
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Opinion

    Have a rant: Time human resources grew up

    by Personnel Today 19 Nov 2007
    by Personnel Today 19 Nov 2007

    Your weekly legal dilemma on the subject of ageism (Personnel Today, 13 November) made me put fingers to keyboard. A...

    • Flexible benefits
    • Pay & benefits
    • Opinion

    Increased flexibility will be a balancing act for human resources

    by Karen Dempsey 12 Nov 2007
    by Karen Dempsey 12 Nov 2007

    With all the debate recently about who should champion diversity – and whether human resources should be stripped of its...

    • Economics, government & business
    • Skills shortages
    • Opinion

    Have a rant – Skills shortage

    by Personnel Today 12 Nov 2007
    by Personnel Today 12 Nov 2007

    The skills shortage is currently being talked about as though it is a new thing that skills shortages never existed...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • HR strategy
    • Executive recruitment

    Key to a more diverse boardroom is avoiding identikit thinking

    by Personnel Today 12 Nov 2007
    by Personnel Today 12 Nov 2007

    Research launched later this week will expose the fact that the number of women on FTSE-listed boards is still painfully...

    • Change management
    • ESG
    • HR strategy

    Are sustainability and human capital management so very different?

    by Debbie Whitaker 5 Nov 2007
    by Debbie Whitaker 5 Nov 2007

    Having recently moved into the world of sustainability after 20-plus years in HR, the similarities between the two fields are...

    • Employee relations
    • Employee communications
    • The HR profession

    Have a rant – Leaving human resources behind is easier said than done

    by Debbie Whitaker 5 Nov 2007
    by Debbie Whitaker 5 Nov 2007

    I read with interest (and a smirk) the rant regarding human resources and its fierce protection of its own (‘Cross-fertilisation...

    • ESG
    • HR strategy
    • Opinion

    Sustainability: Time to give a green light to a sustainable future

    by Karen Dempsey 5 Nov 2007
    by Karen Dempsey 5 Nov 2007

    Would you take a pay cut to join an organisation with an environmentally sound reputation and with sustainable development at...

    • Pay & benefits
    • Pay structures
    • Opinion

    Off message: why cutting maternity leave is actually the key to closing the UK’s gender pay gap

    by Personnel Today 5 Nov 2007
    by Personnel Today 5 Nov 2007

    I read with disbelief recently the claim by charity Fathers Direct that the government should switch its focus on childcare...

    • Education - school
    • Recruitment & retention
    • Opinion

    Human resources must get involved with shaping new diplomas

    by Karen Dempsey 29 Oct 2007
    by Karen Dempsey 29 Oct 2007

    The government may have taken three years to come up with a scheme based on recommendations by former chief inspector...

    • Change management
    • HR strategy
    • Opinion

    Cultivating change for better policing is a work in progress

    by Personnel Today 29 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 29 Oct 2007

    The public sector is constantly changing, with the creation of new start-up bodies and the merging and restructuring of departments...

    • Employee relations
    • CIPD
    • Employee communications

    Have a rant – CIPD barriers to human resources

    by Personnel Today 29 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 29 Oct 2007

    I am a Fellow Chartered Management Accountant who has worked financially, operationally and in an HR capacity for a retailer...

    • HR strategy
    • Outsourcing
    • Opinion

    Have a rant – ‘Spanish practices’ is an outdate phrase

    by Personnel Today 22 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 22 Oct 2007

    Royal Mail chief executive Adam Crozier recently accused postal workers of clinging to ‘Spanish practices’ – an old term for...

    • Careers in HR
    • Military
    • HR strategy

    Is HR’s ‘survival mentality’ slowing down its evolution?

    by Personnel Today 22 Oct 2007
    by Personnel Today 22 Oct 2007

    The news that Henley has ‘canned’ its new human resources- (HR)-based MSc due to a perceived lack of interest raises...

    • HR practice
    • Personnel Today
    • The HR profession

    Best Place to Work in Human Resources Awards prove size isn’t everything

    by Karen Dempsey 22 Oct 2007
    by Karen Dempsey 22 Oct 2007

    It is great to be involved in feel-good events that reward and recognise Personnel Today readers for being fabulous at...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Musculoskeletal disorders
    • Opinion

    Off message: Human resources can use statistics to prove anything

    by Tony Pettengell 22 Oct 2007
    by Tony Pettengell 22 Oct 2007

    Human resources can use many statistics to demonstrate return on investment. There are others that show that no-one is actually working…

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