Opinion

I had an interesting chat with a likeminded compatriot the other day over a rather long lunch. Maybe it was the booze talking, but we soon came to the conclusion that staff are no longer dogs - they are cats

The origins of human capital management lie in the realisation that investing in people yields greater profit than machines

I heard a story recently about a woman who pretended she had a young child just so she had a pretext for leaving work early when she wanted to

The flexible working debate looks set to heat up as the government conducts a consultation on whether and how to...

The UK is about to start its latest six-month presidency of the European Union, and it is a difficult time....

An e-mail row between a solicitor at a top City law firm and a secretary became national news earlier this...

Our irascible insider on... the living dead

‘Talent management’ is one of those phrases that’s getting a lot of air play, and debates about this topic have...

George Cox’s review of creativity in UK business on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is particularly...

Unfortunately for employers, holidays are solely there to remind us all that there is much more to life than work

Key strategyA useful source of reports focusing on change management and various HR issues. You have to pay – many...

We clearly touched a nerve with our news story on HR being the unhappiest profession in the UK (Personnel Today, 14 June)

The key problem in the ongoing debate about the measurement of human capital management (HCM) is the lack of clarity...

I was recently invited to join the question and answer panel for the Richmond Events HR Forum, which was attended...

It's ironic that in the same week we publish our top 40 HR power players for 2005 (starting on page 19), recruitment firm Kelly Services releases a report concluding that HR is the unhappiest profession in the UK.