CIPD - Blogs

Please login

Username

Password

Blogs

CIPD staff will be blogging their personal thoughts on the issues that matter in HR and people management and the external factors that affect them.

CIPD - Image Affinity Item

CIPD Update

Stay up to date with what's happening in the HR and Development profession. Subscribe to our email newsletter.

Bloggers

Meet the CIPD bloggers…

CIPD Events Blog

hackathonblog

Jonny Gifford
Research Adviser. Specialises in employee relations and engagement. Also has interests in corporate social responsibility, equality and diversity, leadership and organisational development

John McGurk
Coaching, public policy, apprenticeship, learning and skills councils, skills shortages

Mark Beatson
Chief Economist. Leads on CIPD’s labour market analysis and commentary as well as leading thinking and influencing policy making across the whole spectrum of people management and workplace issues.

Peter Cheese

Richard Goff

Reward Blogger

Wilson Wong
Senior researcher (OD Insight and Practice). He is responsible for research on the psychological contract, primarily on the construction of organisational fairness and its impact of managing change and organisational cultures.

Active discussions




Active discussions

Blogs you might like

Links open new windows

Jill Evans's blog for People Management

Peter Honey's blog for People Management

John Philpott's blog for People Management

Iain Mackinnon's blog for People Management

Robert Peston's blog for BBC

Chris Roebuck's Transforming performance blog

CIPD is not responsible for the content of external sites.

PM Newsletter

People Management Newsletter, HR news and jobs direct to your inbox. Sign up now.

CIPD - All post list

Recent blog posts

251 - 260 of 381 results

Page

Bingleby

Becoming Better at Management than Blancmange

27 May 2011 at 14:56 3 comments

Tags: N/A

In the board room last week, the shocked silence had curled around the room like an anaconda, crushing the life out of us. A week later, Sally was still protesting. ‘Maybe it was a little harsh to say blancmange has better leadership qualities than...

John McGurk

Apprentice 5 Episode 4: Saved by the Spray tan: Beauty and the Bottom Line

26 May 2011 at 16:34 1 comments

Tags: The Apprentice, numeracy skills, HR Blogs, Learning

When Lord Sugar set up this task he was testing whether the contestants knew how to make money. He knows, as economists do, that people pay over the odds for “experience purchases” like facials, body wraps, and for nice little gee jaws that...

Reward Blogger

It's all about you! – Reward blog with a difference. By Colin Miller, Kent County Council

24 May 2011 at 11:02 2 comments

Tags: N/A

When is a reward blog not a reward blog? - When WE are trying to find out what YOU think. As you can see from the articles previously posted, there are a number of us in the Reward Forum, Vice President Reward Panel and others who write blogs. The intention...

Bingleby

God I’m Board

20 May 2011 at 17:05 3 comments

Tags: N/A

Yesterday, just before Sally’s first ever management team meeting began, she snuck me into the Board Room. ‘I’ll pop you up here on the window sill, Bingleby. Think I’m going to need some moral support.’ Sally took a seat...

John McGurk

Apprentice 5: Episode 3: Not Having a Cloche Doesn't Get you Tea or Sympathy.

20 May 2011 at 15:19 0 comments

Tags: The Apprentice, HR Blogs, Learning

Gavin was a nice guy he seemed to have something about him but in this seek and buy mission he finished where we don't like to see nice guys finish. The problem was prevarication and a laughable lack of influence over a team which was as chaotic and...

Reward Blogger

Minimising the unintended consequences of performance pay. By Sylvia Doyle, Reward First People Consulting

17 May 2011 at 11:53 3 comments

Tags: N/A

Is it time for another paper on top pay? I’m not sure though I’ve scanned the High Pay Commission’s interim report ‘ More for Less ’ published today on top pay in the private and public sectors. The report comes hot on the...

Bingleby

The worst Office Politician in the world

13 May 2011 at 17:08 0 comments

Tags: N/A

I suppose we must be grateful for small mercies. Gabriel Silk, the Comms Director, didn’t walk into Sally Gulliver’s office twirling a large moustache, flourishing a large, black cape and laughing maniacally. But he might as well have done...

John McGurk

Apprentice 5: Episode 2: Edna’s Psych Ops and Leon’s App Flop

13 May 2011 at 16:10 2 comments

Tags: The Apprentice, numeracy skills, HR Blogs, Learning

Episode 2 was an object lesson in how not to manage a creative process, people product or indeed pitching. What both teams did very well was self congratulation, backbiting taking credit, and acting like fools. In the guys team Logic the style was “bromanagement”...

John McGurk

Apprentice 5: Episode 1: Play to your Strengths..(please!).

11 May 2011 at 10:41 1 comments

Tags: The Apprentice, numeracy skills, HR Blogs, Learning

In the first episode we had the usual roll call of hardnosed comic mantras. A woman who had worked with Nobel winner, Al Gore and the Dalai Lama said “why reach for the sky when there are footprints on the moon. “ A man did a panto nasty face...

Reward Blogger

Impossible Questions and Chameleons. By Ray Naylor, GDF SUEZ

10 May 2011 at 14:36 0 comments

Tags: N/A

I returned from vacation, and there it was – a handwritten note from the Supreme Being. "I have a management conference at [insert town of your choice] next week. I need a short note giving the main purpose of our stock-option plan. First thing...

251 - 260 of 381 results

Page