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    Growth explained by job cuts? The focus is all wrong

    Duncan Brown says that HR must snap out of its tunnel vision on efficiency savings to support more sustainable growth 'Stocks Roar Back!' trumpets my City AM front-page on the morning of the 8 th of May, perhaps rather ominously appearing alongside...

    HR’s critics are right, ‘can’t win, don’t try’

    Graham White searched high and low for the best ways to cope with harsh criticism of HR's best efforts In the last month, the issue of criticism, and the impact it can have, has really struck me. Whether it is the focus on a deceased political...

    Coming soon: the CEO earning 1,000 times more than you

    HR can stop huge pay discrepancies reaching these shores, says Robert Jeffery There are two truisms about the US that are always worth remembering. First, they like to do things big. And secondly, what starts across the Atlantic ends up here sooner...

    A counterintuitive stance on talent

    Jan Hills says HR might need to rethink its approach to talent to favour an unexpected mindset based on give and take A new book is turning our thinking about success on its head. The book Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success by Adam...

    Performance management, it’s a marathon not a sprint

    Money and goal setting are the most misunderstood concepts of performance management, as demonstrated by runners in the London Marathon says Clinton Wingrove A week ago, London fell silent to pay tribute to those who lost their lives, and to those...

    A maverick’s guide to becoming an HR director

    Former MP turned training consultant Lembit Öpik reflects on his HR career and whether non-conformists can plot a path to the boardroom I was never really a typical Procter & Gamble employee – or “Proctoid”, as staff in that...

    You work in HR. Are you also in sales?

    Dan Pink certainly thinks so, says Jan Hills, as she picks out her top insights from his latest book The new book from Dan Pink, ‘To sell is human: The Surprising Truth About Persuading, Convincing, and Influencing Others’ , is getting...

    High pay and the great reward divide

    Outdated attitudes to pay and how employers value staff need to change, argues Duncan Brown When I started work as green personnel graduate trainee at Vauxhall in the early 1980s there were separate toilets for manual workers and managers. While these...

    How would you deal with an ethical dilemma at work?

    What would you do if you thought your company was acting unethically? The answer is not as easy as you might think, says Claire Warren What would you do if there was a conflict between your own ethics and those of the company you work for, even after...

    Everybody out! Thatcher’s rebalancing Acts

    Trade unions no longer enjoy the dominance of the 1970s, but how did Britain’s first and only female prime minister rebalance industrial relations, asks Claire Churchard Baroness Thatcher is dividing UK opinion one last time as one paper claims...