Opinion

A good friend of mine once said that “talent and diversity are interchangeable”. But there is a problem in how...

Accounting is all about people. That statement might come as a surprise to many, particularly those who see accounting as...

All my life I have been subjected to a pernicious form of discrimination, which in this politically correct age of...

Today you will have come to work as normal, sat down at your desk, drunk your cup of tea and...

Another day, yet another survey damning hardworking Britons, branding them with the Scarlet Letter of sloth and deception. For two...

Far from being the demon barber of the business world, private equity firms are the hair tonic that fuels new growth.

Scarcely an hour passes without someone bemoaning the quality of the education system in this country. Yet much of this, often ill-informed, criticism is missing the economic point.

Carole Gaskell says HR directors will always struggle to be more strategic until they enable line managers to take real responsibility for spontaneous, on-the-job coaching.

The possibility is that HR departments might become a thing of the past. That is, unless we refocus. And we...

All this talk of anorexia and size zero is literally making me ill with stress and worry because all my...

Why the age of the obese is just around the corner and coming to a workplace near you - whether you like it or not.

Forget men behaving badly. It’s now women working flexibly that are prompting the hottest debates in today’s workplace.
We ran...

When will the Department of Trade and Industry and the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) stop referring to ‘free training’...

The National Pension Savings Scheme (NPSS) White Paper was published just before last Christmas, with little fanfare. There has been surprisingly little...

I have been haunted by an issue of our weekly newspaper that I cannot throw away – beautifully timed to...