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Find out who was the overall winner at Personnel Today’s glittering awards ceremony  on 27...

Thousands of public sector HR professionals could pay for Alistair Darling’s Pre-Budget Report spending splurge with their jobs, it has...

The CIPD’s role in regulating the profession has been questioned by HR professionals in the wake of the BNP membership...

Former CIPD assistant director-general Duncan Brown is to join the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) next month.Brown joins as director...

This award is for individual HR directors who demonstrate outstanding leadership. Entries explained the contribution made to both their own team...

HR risks being left out in the cold as more non-executive directors and others start to take an interest in people management.

Alexander Forbes Financial Services has appointed John Hubner as HR director. Hubner joins from Legal & General, where he was...

Where were you working before, and what were your responsibilities?
I have spent most of my career working for General...

John Sergeant, the BNP and the CIPD make unlikely bedfellows, but the former political editor's recent actions show the institute how to act.

Leading HR directors have called on the CIPD to toughen up its rules after it emerged one of its members...

Two courses to help HR staff and line managers handle strikes and redundancies better have been launched by the CIPD.The...

Nearly two thirds of public sector HR professionals feel their department is insufficiently prepared to make changes.Research by consultancy Penna...

Simon Bailey was told he had 10 seconds to decide if he wanted to be a trainer. After seven, he...

Where were you working before, and what were your responsibilities?Capital One Bank (Europe) – I was responsible for developing and...

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has hired two senior HR professionals from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).The...