Hayfa Mohdzaini, Senior Research Adviser, Data, Technology and AI, CIPD
Technology’s function in boosting people’s capability (augmentation) and replacing jobs or tasks has often been spoken and written about. But did you know there are o...
By Jake Young, Research Associate at the CIPD.
Multicultural teams are not an emerging phenomenon – they have grown over the long term from globalisation, migration and greater workforce diversity. But the COVID-19 pandemic has seen organ...
Melanie Green, Research Adviser, CIPD
The pandemic has prompted many a debate about the roles we value as a society, with key workers often in the spotlight, doing vital work in difficult circumstances. And t...
By Melanie Green, Research Adviser at the CIPD.
Despite the turbulence of 2020, and the subsequent impact on our workplaces, the Good Work Index 2021 finds that that job quality has generally remained stable in the past year. This might seem su...
By Dr Luke Fletcher, Associate Professor, University of Bath School of Management.
Inclusion and diversity is an increasingly important area within people management practice, and the CIPD’s People Profession 2030 report also highlights this wi...
By Melanie Green, Research Adviser at the CIPD.
Employee wellbeing has been high on the list of priorities for organisations and people professionals alike in the past year. According to data reported in our People Profession in 2...
Mel Green & Gill Maxwell, Research Advisors
On 23 March 2021 this year the National Day of Reflection in the UK will commemorate lives lost to COVID-19 and we will stand together with everyone who is grieving. In supporting this m...
To mark Stress Awareness Week we asked Kate Bicknell, Head of People and Culture at Fideres Partners, how they have approached managing stress during the pandemic.We explore the initiatives they put in place, the advice they’ve given managers a...
By Louisa Baczor, Founder and Research Consultant at Elbe Consulting.
The current wave of tech-driven change known as the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ is blurring the divide between the human and digital worlds. In the workplace, t...
By Rebecca Peters, Research Adviser at the CIPD.
The self-employment job market is rising in numbers - CIPD’s 2018 megatrends report highlights that self-employment in the UK has been growing faster than general employment rates since 2001. Muc...
By Rebecca Peters, Research Advisor at the CIPD.
The people profession is changing and to continue doing great work, people professionals need to be adaptive to the demands being placed upon them. Given the numerous corporate scandals or changes...
An Introduction
Susannah and Philippa share the role of Head of Academic Quality at Nottingham TrentUniversity, managing a team of 12. Both had many years' experience in the Higher Education sector before forming a job-share partnership, an...
By Jake Young, CIPD Research Associate
In part one we explored speaking truth to power in relation to workplace sexual harassment. Research shows that issues are faced not only by those who wish to make their voice heard, but by those with the r...
By Jake Young, CIPD Research Associate
We know that enabling employee voice is important and benefits both the employer and employee. Having voice, first and foremost, allows employees to influence matters that they deem important. Our CIPD research ...
By Dr Aideen Young, Evidence Manager, the Centre for Ageing Better
We all know the UK population is ageing. In the 15 years to 2031, there will be a 25% increase in the number of people aged 65 to 79 and a 4% decline in the number aged 20 to 34.
Thes...
By Louisa Baczor, Research Adviser at the CIPD
In today’s world of work, with many insecure jobs, long working hours cultures and the decline in collective representation, how much influence do people have over their employment conditions? Oppo...
By Louisa Baczor, Research Advisor at the CIPD
Toxic workplace cultures have recently been very prominent in public debate. Last year’s scandals included allegations of bullying and harassment in Westminster, and the exposure of Sir Philip...
By Jake Young, CIPD Research Associate
Organisations create value by utilising the different assets available to them, such as using machinery to turn materials into saleable products. Increasingly, the asset of value to organisations is the human ca...
By Louisa Baczor, Research Advisor at the CIPD
The role of people professionals is diversifying and becoming more complex. As organisations become increasingly agile and rely more on contractors and remote workers to meet immediate business need...
By Olga Jadinskaja, Project Manager of the CIPD's Living Wage pilot.
CIPD is joining the annual celebration of the Living Wage movement in the UK. It works with employers to drive positive change in their workplaces, so more employees receive fai...
By Claire McCartney, Diversity and Inclusion Adviser, CIPD
The focus of both employers and the Government on supporting workplace Returners has been growing in recent months. Workplace returners represent valuable talent for organisations and it make...
By Melanie Green, Research Adviser at the CIPD
With more opportunity to collect and use people data than ever before, the importance of deploying workforce data responsibly, importantly and effectively, has never been greater. Ultimately, it can be ...
The business and moral case for diversity has long been made. With a widespread belief that diversity and inclusion is good for business, and is simply the right thing to do, why do we need to continue to investigate the evidence on diversity and inc...
Hi, my name is Emma Young and I am currently a student at Ricard's and Rutlish joint sixth form. I am currently studying sociology, psychology and art and design A levels.
An overview of my week
Throughout the week I have had the pleasur...
My name is Ruben Elendo and I am a Business Computing student at the University of Greenwich. I would like to be a project manager in the future and work in the civil service.
Starting at CIPD commenced by being shown around the building by Jackie De...
