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06 January 2009
Service to offer 'underused' employees to charities
A new service allows organisations to sell the time of underused staff to voluntary sector groups.
01 January 2009
Young people and women turned off IT
Employers are still struggling to fill skills gaps in IT despite the downturn, and the sector urgently needs to interest more young people and...
01 January 2009
Review of the year 2008
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01 January 2009
A young hairdresser talks to his colleague at a salon in central London
Josh: And I could go to Birmingham. Or go to Scotland. Or just...
01 January 2009
The Best policy
Employees at Birmingham City Council were suffering from a bad case of initiative fatigue. A series of change programmes...

01 January 2009
Brian Murray
When Unilever decided to sell Birds Eye to private equity company Permira two years ago, sales had been falling for five years. From the start,...
01 January 2009
New managers
Moving to middle or senior management positions can cause individuals to reform, or even transform, their sense of 'Who am I?' and 'How should...

01 January 2009
Janet Collinson
I got into HR by chance. I started my career in accounting and then moved into credit control to fill in for someone...
19 December 2008
Jenny Ball, Ashley Hever, Joy Watkins, Sandra Parsons, Ethan Kelly-Wilson
Ford Motor Company, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Lottery Commission,...

11 December 2008
Organisations can learn
Daniel Wain argues that the concept of the learning organisation is 'unsound both grammatically and pragmatically' and moreover 'only people...
11 December 2008
Training for less
In recent weeks I have noticed more letters pleading with businesses not to respond to the current financial climate by cutting their training...

18 December 2008
University isn't right for everyone - and why should it be?
Does it make me sound really old if I say that I met a very impressive young man last week? Rather unusually he freely volunteers his age: but...
12 December 2008
Innovation starts with the right people
When the economy is in difficulty, the main 'people' story tends to be about those losing their jobs. This week, it's Woolies. Next week, who...