Opinion

HR was once where biscuits, tissues, tea and sympathy were dispensed to distraught colleagues. That touchy-feely image has now been...

 Some of you may have had to blink and look twice at the statistics on our front page. After all...

The publication last week of two reports into the 7 July terrorist attacks in London, coupled with the findings of...

We recently completed our annual employee opinion survey, and are now awaiting the results

Duncan Brown, assistant director-general, CIPD, on performance management

We at Personnel Today are delighted to have won the recognition of our peers at the 'Oscars' of the publishing world - the PPA Awards

Just like the proverbial cobblers' shoes or dentists' teeth, HR can often be guilty of not looking after its own career or developmental needs

What became increasingly evident to me in this session was that there is a very narrow bandwidth of acceptable behaviour for many women in the workplace

So, only 22% of respondents to the Personnel Today barometer poll would take up the challenge of workforce director at the Department of Health (2 May). No wonder businesses regard HR as light, fluffy and non-strategic

Recruitment is one of those issues that regularly tops polls of HR's biggest headaches.

Why oh why do HR departments not practise what they preach when they're recruiting?

I read with interest your 'HR's top job?' front-page news story about the Department of Health's (DoH) search for a new workforce director

So, the largest public sector HR job in Europe, and one of the biggest HR jobs in the world (at...

Simon Barrow
Chairman, People in Business

Other departments always complain that HR is flakey and not hard-nosed enough. So why do you insist on perpetuating that...