Corporate Strategy

Corporate strategy determines the direction an organisation will take in order to achieve business success in the long term. You’ll find here information on business strategy and organisation performance, sustainability, innovation, productivity, mission and values, corporate culture and social responsibility, business ethics, organisational capability, interim management and knowledge management.

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Responsible and sustainable business: HR leading the way

Our collection of thought pieces discusses key challenges in aligning environmental, social and financial goals, and HR’s role in driving and embedding this approach to business throughout the organisation.

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Factsheets (4)

Sustainable organisation performance
May 2012
Introductory guidance covering what sustainable organisation performance is, how it relates to high performance working, what drives it , and HR’s role. Includes the CIPD viewpoint.
Corporate responsibility
December 2011
Introductory guidance covering what corporate responsibility (CSR) is, its importance and HR's role. Considers what to cover in a CR strategy. Includes the CIPD viewpoint.
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Survey Reports (2)

Innovation in the workplace: how are organisations responding to Generation Y employees and Web 2.0 technologies?
September 2008
Looks at how changes in technology, employee expectations and the working environment are placing new challenges on organisations
Shared purpose: the golden thread?
December 2010
Explores the findings of a CIPD/YouGov survey of 2,000 UK employees to understand their views on having a shared organisational purpose.

Guides (5)

Line management behaviour and stress at work
April 2012
This guidance is presented as three separate leaflets tailored to the needs of line managers and HR professionals.
Corporate social responsibility and HR's role
July 2003
A comprehensive overview of CSR looking at how people management and development professionals can make a difference.
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Researchs (21)

Business savvy: giving HR the edge
March 2012
Identifies and explains the four foundations of business savvy and gives an overview of what makes up business savvy competence.
Responsible and sustainable business: HR leading the way
February 2012
A series of thought pieces from experts and leaders in the field of corporate responsibility and sustainability which explore the issues around what it means to be a responsible and sustainable business.
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Practical Tools (5)

Using HR metrics for maximum impact
January 2012
The last in a series of four which build specifically on the Shaping the Future insights, this tool is designed to ensure that measurement of HR aligns with organisational priorities.
Building capability and talent to meet short- and long-term priorities
November 2011
This practical tool is the third in a series of four which build specifically on the Shaping the Future insights. The tool focuses on insights related to building capability and talent.
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Articles from People Management

HR director Norman Pickavance to leave Morrisons
30 April 2012
Morrisons' HR and communications director Norman Pickavance is to stand down from his post at the supermarket chain at the end of June.
First central government mutual faces union resistance
30 April 2012
The government's first John Lewis-style mutual to be created from a central government service has drawn strong criticism from civil service unions.
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