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Interview with Gary Hamel: “Want to solve executive pay? Get rid of the...
Gary Hamel is the world’s biggest business brain – and he’s got some radical solutions to our most entrenched problemsCorporate greed, inertia, sprawling bureaucracy... with a career spanning 35 years...
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Whistleblowers: "Suddenly I was the lead in a John Grisham novel"
How Michael Woodford, the CEO who exposed the Olympus fraud, gambled his career on doing the right thingMichael Woodford never intended to become a crusader for business transparency, far less a...
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Big data: one zettabyte - what are you doing with your slice?
Big data is a big opportunity for HR – but it’s not just crunching numbers The charity Teach For America interviews tens of thousands of prospective educators each year, and ensures the very best and...
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The real Work Programme
Companies are finding thousands of new employees through the government’s flagship scheme. But some call it exploitation. Which is the real work programme? If you go down to your local high street...
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RBS HR chief: ‘Lack of HR investment was key failing in past’
Reinforced function central to bank’s revival HR is playing a core role in returning Royal Bank of Scotland to fiscal health, HR director Elaine Arden has told the CIPD Scotland Conference in...
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Private equity: are the ‘vultures’ coming for your business?
Its name strikes fear. Its opponents claim it decimates jobs. Does ‘vulture capitalism’ just get a bad press?The reasons that Mitt Romney suffered such an unexpectedly crushing defeat in last year’s...
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Eight interviews is probably too many
The recession is prompting bizarre tactics from recruiters, says Robert JefferyUnless you have vast disposable wealth and a Roman Abramovich-like fascination for superyachts, a house is probably the...
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Nick Leeson: 'I had an exalted opinion of success'
The infamous ex-trader on learning from his mistakes – and healing the banking industryNick Leeson entered business folklore in 1995, when – as head trader at the Singapore operations of Barings Bank –...
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Do Paolo Di Canio’s politics matter?
The new Sunderland manager has reignited a debate over personal beliefs in the workplace, says Robert JefferyIt’s fair to say the owners of Sunderland AFC didn’t foresee a political storm when they...
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Coming soon: the CEO earning 1,000 times more than you
HR can stop huge pay discrepancies reaching these shores, says Robert JefferyThere are two truisms about the US that are always worth remembering. First, they like to do things big. And secondly, what...
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ONS figures show drop in immigration
Reforms have ‘cut abuse while encouraging brightest and best’, says minister The number of migrants coming to Britain has dropped by 89,000 to 153,000 in the 12 months to September 2012, figures from...
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Don’t limit your diversity approach to protected characteristics
Equality strands are a good starting point but don’t let them restrict your scope, argues Iain MackinnonIs it a badge of honour in your place to be able to name all nine protected characteristics? If...
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Huge job losses predicted in the retail sector
One in five shops could close, suggests studyA fifth of stores could shut on the UK high street over next five years, resulting in 316,000 job losses, new research has claimed.Nearly 62,000 shops will...
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Protecting confidential information retrospectively
Is it possible for employers to stop crucial product development details being used competitively by former employees?The case Vestergaard Frantsen A/S v Bestnet Europe involved a company manufacturing...
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Government ‘reviewing zero hours contracts,’ says Business Secretary
Cable confirms ‘Beecroft’s no-fault dismissal will not be revived’Business Secretary Vince Cable has told People Management that the government is reviewing zero hours contracts after recent figures...
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Knowledge is power - and financial success
The closure of public libraries could affect the UK’s economic recovery, fears John P. Wilson Around 400 years ago, Francis Bacon wrote that “the application of knowledge is power”, and since then this...
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Who's in HR's all-time top 20?
People Management's list of the best organisations everYou'll find a distiller, a supermarket, an oil giant and an engine manufacturer on our rundown of the Best Organisations For HR. But who gets the...
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Equality test for Virgin Atlantic
An African-origin job applicant claimed race discrimination when he was rejected but his Welsh pseudonym was called for interviewIn a case which received wide publicity Kpakio v Virgin Atlantic Airways...
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Workers denied minimum wage receive £4m in back pay
HMRC crackdown sees 700 employers fined for breaking lawMore than 26,000 workers who were paid below the national minimum wage have received a £4 million windfall, following a clampdown by HM Revenue...
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Recruiting for values in the NHS - those on The Apprentice need not apply
The machinations on The Apprentice have drawn the unique values of the NHS into sharp relief for Dean Royles The government has just issued the mandate for the recently created body Health Education...
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