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    Slavery: Why should our generation have to apologise for slavery?

    by Personnel Today 3 Apr 2007
    by Personnel Today 3 Apr 2007

    If any apology is made by this government or other representative of the British people for “our part in the...

    • HR strategy
    • The HR profession
    • Opinion

    HR’s obsession with how important it should be brings derision and accentuates insecurity

    by Personnel Today 3 Apr 2007
    by Personnel Today 3 Apr 2007

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

    • HR strategy
    • Opinion

    Why are there so few high-performing organisations?

    by Personnel Today 27 Mar 2007
    by Personnel Today 27 Mar 2007

    The organisational performance question is a constant challenge for me and many people that I know. Why are there so...

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    Generalist experience

    by Personnel Today 27 Mar 2007
    by Personnel Today 27 Mar 2007

    Since leaving university I have gained five years’ experience in recruitment-based roles, as well as my CIPD qualification.
    I have...

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    • Trade unions
    • Opinion

    Transport and General Workers’ Union merger with Amicus demonstrates weakness rather than strength

    by Personnel Today 27 Mar 2007
    by Personnel Today 27 Mar 2007

    If anything, the merger of the T&G and Amicus unions demonstrates weakness, not strength.

    • HR practice
    • HR strategy
    • Opinion

    HR effectiveness – are we putting the cart before the horse?

    by Personnel Today 20 Mar 2007
    by Personnel Today 20 Mar 2007

    Many in HR may recall ‘The Abilene paradox’. It’s a great parable about a family that, while comfortably enjoying an...

    • HR practice
    • Recruitment & retention
    • Opinion

    Discrimination against public sector experience

    by Personnel Today 20 Mar 2007
    by Personnel Today 20 Mar 2007

    I am an HR professional with six years’ public sector HR experience.
    I previously worked as a line manager for...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
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    Equality: Men are the main obstacle in the way of equality for women

    by Tony Pettengell 13 Mar 2007
    by Tony Pettengell 13 Mar 2007

    ...but as James Brown added, "it wouldn't be nuthin' without a woman [doing all the work for less pay than men]".

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Opinion

    Flexible working and the Equalities Review: head to head

    by Personnel Today 13 Mar 2007
    by Personnel Today 13 Mar 2007

    The Equalities Review has prompted huge debate on diversity in the workplace (Personnel Today, 6 March). But is changing your work culture so...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Opinion

    Diversity: Forcing the issue is the only way to embrace it

    by Karen Dempsey 6 Mar 2007
    by Karen Dempsey 6 Mar 2007

    I was on the judging panel recently for a diversity award, and it became clear from the tone and detail...

    • Wellbeing
    • Opinion

    Risk assessment in the workplace is getting out of control

    by Personnel Today 6 Mar 2007
    by Personnel Today 6 Mar 2007

    Everybody knows we Brits are a nation of gamblers. Bingo is making a big comeback, our first supercasino just got...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • HR practice
    • Sex discrimination

    HR needs to take the lead for aspiring women in the workplace

    by Personnel Today 6 Mar 2007
    by Personnel Today 6 Mar 2007

    It may be International Women’s Day this week (8 March), but there is still some way to go for women...

    • ESG
    • HR strategy
    • Opinion

    Long-term business benefits of corporate social responsibility stack up

    by Dawn Nolan 27 Feb 2007
    by Dawn Nolan 27 Feb 2007

    If you think that having a policy on ethics is nice to have but not essential, then think again.
    Research...

    • HR practice
    • Recruitment & retention
    • Opinion

    Recruitment: Ignore the basics at your peril

    by Personnel Today 27 Feb 2007
    by Personnel Today 27 Feb 2007

    I recently set out to find a new senior HR role and approached a number of specialist HR recruitment agencies....

    • HR practice
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    HR and technology: back to the future

    by Personnel Today 27 Feb 2007
    by Personnel Today 27 Feb 2007

    Exactly 100 years ago my local newspaper reported that: “a radical change which the Twickenham District Council has effected to...

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