The HR profession

Despite the government's push for more regional autonomy across the UK, London remains the powerhouse of the British economy, worth more than £162bn annually

Investors in People (IIP) has been named one of the nine “most useless” quangos in a report.

It should have been HR’s defining moment. At last there was a chance to demonstrate the link between people policies...

Julia Marsan, Bruce King, Alison Leaper and Bronwyn Kunhardt

Penney will spearhead the recruitment drive for a major pan-European expansion

Pregnancy sackings; Super union green light; HR training in Moscow

Chief economist claims that delaying the full introduction until 2008 means the reforms will have little impact on current labour market pressures

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is to release a ‘public policy agenda’ in a bid to raise...

Jo Steen, 42, is HR director of Avis Rent a Car. Her team's systematic approach helped it to win the Xchanging Award for Excellence in Training in the Personnel Today Awards 2004

This month you'll be hearing a lot about skills.

Organisations must be honest with their employees and give them permission to have fun at work, according to Rita Bailey, former HR director of Southwest Airlines

Carol Bailey, Ruth Stokes, Kerry Jarred, Navjot Singh and Lisa Blood

Kim Lardge has joined the Forestry Commission after a spell with the Royal Bank of Scotland, working in group HR.

A worker in Des Moines, Iowa, in the good ol’ US of A, has been fired from his job as...

Jerry Brand is a highly successful entrepreneur who firmly believes in investing in his people and seeing them thrive. Roisin Woolnough reports