Opinion

'Women on top' was the theme of this month's HR Directors Club briefing, held at Warwick Castle with guest speaker Edwina Currie.

In the recent survey of 1,000 business executives, their top 10 leaders of all time included the usual suspects: Winston Churchill in pole position, followed by Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.

The case of BT v Pousson (EAT/0347/04) demonstrates how making reasonable adjustments as required under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)...

In a year's time it will be illegal to refuse someone a job, training, promotion or benefits on the grounds of age

The Newbury Index - a system for rating how well organisations manage to capitalise on their people - came under heavy scrutiny on these pages following Personnel Today's report (7 June)

HR Hartley on life coaches

How many of you work in HR because you want to help people? Hands up

One of the main reasons women's pay continues to lag behind men's is that so many employers genuinely believe that the gender pay gap lies elsewhere.

After countless predictions of times of change, is the future of work still a permanent job, or more of a half-way house?

How to attract, nurture and keep tomorrow's star performers

Talent managers from four major players talk about what talent means for their organisation and their roles in helping it to thrive. Ross Bentley reports

To win 'the war for talent' you need to know what you want, how to get it and how to keep it. Larry Hochman explains how to do all three

Tackling bullying in any organisation, large or small, is incredibly difficult. What one person classes as bullying or intimidating behaviour may be perfectly acceptable to another

If a problem is allowed to fester for more than three decades, surely common sense suggests that something needs to...

HR is the most complex and interesting of all managerial disciplines - that's why it goes in for bouts of introspection