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Angela has been a CIPD Adviser since 1990. She has been responsible for a number of major projects investigating total quality, organisational culture, job evaluation, performance management, lean organisations, HR strategy, the relationship between HR and business performance and, most recently, human capital management, workforce planning and sustainable business performance. She is currently developing further work on engagement, careers, HR business savvy and job design.
Angela has contributed to several books and teaching programmes, and co-authored a book with Michael Armstrong on human capital management. She holds a master’s degree in occupational and organisational psychology and is a Chartered Member of the CIPD.

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Careers don't wait for Christmas

21 December 2011 at 14:55

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It’s Christmas! The halls are decked and the holly already wilting and I get the impression that many people are making the most worried about what 2012 might bring. From the approach of the Mayan prophesied doomsday of 21 December 2012 to the,...

Is engagement always good?

13 April 2011 at 09:25

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Employee engagement is the holy grail of business or so you would think seeing that the topic seems to permeate everything written on HR at the moment. Not surprising since all the evidence points to engagement being the path to success through extra...

Surviving tough times!

23 March 2011 at 10:47

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I was taking part in a radio show recently, offering some helpful CIPD views on how to deal with employee stress in times of uncertainty – particularly when jobs are under threat. No easy answers of course, but one individual interviewed on the...

Don’t engaged staff go sick?

02 March 2011 at 11:57

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We are all very fond of using absence figures as an indication of whether or not people are engaged. Bothering to turn up for work at all is quite probably a chore for people unhappy at work and with stress at work and job insecurity up, we would be forgiven...

New Deal on engagement? by Angela Baron

31 January 2011 at 13:06

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As January comes to a close and a sniff of spring is in the air – the daffodils have broken through in my garden and the cherry tree’s in bud - we would hope for a bit more optimism for the future. However this year seems to have started on a downer before...

Has Organisational Development finally become respectable?

27 August 2010 at 11:06

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There was always something a bit fringe about Organisational Development (OD). Rather like pop psychology it was treated with just a little bit of suspicion – not quite on the same level as those of us with professional HR credentials. But no more it...

OD – What’s the big secret?

03 March 2010 at 08:32

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One side effect of the new CIPD HR Profession Map is that I and my fellow advisers found ourselves with new job titles. Hence I recently found myself labelled adviser OD and Engagement. Engagement I could handle but the term OD sent ripples of panic down...

New Year’s Resolutions

13 January 2010 at 10:32

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As much of Britain slogged back to work in the snow last week, how many of us were labouring under the burden of the New Year’s resolution? Whether it’s to shed the Christmas pounds, give up smoking or start a whole new life, is a dreary day in January...

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Angela Baron's Blog Archive

2011 (5)
- December (1)
  - Careers don't wait for Christmas
- April (1)
  - Is engagement always good?
- March (3)
  - Surviving tough times!
  - Don’t engaged staff go sick?
- January (2)
  - New Deal on engagement? by Angela Baron
2010 (3)
- August (1)
  - Has Organisational Development finally become respectable?
- March (3)
  - OD – What’s the big secret?
- January (2)
  - New Year’s Resolutions




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