By Louisa Baczor, Research Advisor at the CIPD What does it mean to ‘have a voice’? Voice is an ambiguous concept that has many different purposes - from raising ideas or concerns, to influencing decisions and being heard. There are als...

By Louisa Baczor, Research Advisor at the CIPD The CIPD’s UK Working Lives research demonstrated the importance of employee voice as a means of influencing other aspects of job quality. Having a voice at work is the primary vehicle through whic...

The UK Working Lives survey report 2018 finds that health and well-being is the single biggest driver of job quality and job satisfaction in UK workplaces. This isn’t surprising – if a job is designed in such a way that it has an adverse ...

By Ksenia Zheltoukhova, Head of Research and Thought Leadership at the CIPD Another week, another ethical issue in the spotlight – a group of AI experts are questioning whether collaboration between a South Korean research university and a...

Hello, my name is Daniel and I am a college student currently studying at Saint Francis Xavier College. I am currently studying ICT at Btec Level 3 and I am thankful that the CIPD accepted my request to undertake work experience at this location. My ...

By Dr. Anna Einarsdóttir and Professor Sharon Mavin  Diversity in the workplace has been an important topic for some time, and many organisations of all sizes and sectors now recognize the importance of the agenda. Whilst ...

By Dr Julie Wilson, Chair of BAM Leadership & Leadership Development SIG, British Academy of Management On 9th January at the Work Foundation in London, influential business professionals joined with academics to discuss best pra...

By Mel Green, Research Associate Technology is changing how we share and access content, giving us the freedom to learn anywhere, anytime on practically any topic. This presents a world of opportunity for the curation and delivery of learning. We e...

By Louisa Baczor, CIPD Research Adviser I recently attended the Institute of Business Ethics’ event on creating a ‘speak up’ culture, which is of course particularly topical given the multitude of sexual harassment accusations in We...

Louisa Baczor, Research Adviser The ‘gig economy’ has been a hot topic of debate, particularly following the Taylor Review’s call to improve the quality of work for those in atypical employment. The CIPD’s research found that ...

By Ksenia Zheltoukhova , Head of CIPD Research  A couple of years ago a team I was part of completed a values-based survey, reflecting on what was important to us both at home and at work. When the results were revealed, my personal and professi...

By Louisa Baczor, CIPD Research Adviser The Matthew Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices highlights the importance of effective worker voice for creating good work. We believe that having a meaningful voice is critical to better experience and ...

By Jonny Gifford, Organisational Behaviour Adviser Couples have had the right to shared parental leave for two years now. We can start to see some impact, with a decline in traditional patterns of employment and parenting, more fathers working less ...

By Nasser el Mokhtari and Nathan Ten Have We are fifteen-year-old students from KSG De Breul, in Zeist and we’ve spent a week with the Research Team at CIPD. Our work experience this week has been enjoyable and at times challenging. The Head o...

By Louisa Baczor, CIPD Research Associate Our mission at the CIPD is to help ensure that work is a force for good that benefits everyone – businesses, individuals, economies and society. To achieve that, we believe the future of work needs to b...

By Louise Woodruff – Joseph Rowntree Foundation The face of poverty in the UK has changed – the majority of people who live in poverty now live in households where at least one person is working. 3.8 million workers lived in a household ...

By Rachel Lewis and Emma Donaldson-Feilder, Affinity Health at Work A new maturity model will help organisations support managers to develop the skills and behaviours needed to enhance well-being and engagement in their teams Despite all the evidence...

By Elmira Bakhshalian, Research and Development Manager (Assoc CIPD) at Martin Reddington Associates. Elmira discusses conversational practice as a democratic tool that accommodates alternative voices, and can redress employee silence. Are you g...

By Jill Miller, Policy Adviser, Diversity and Inclusion In February 2016 Baroness McGregor-Smith was asked by Government to undertake a review of the issues faced by businesses in developing black and minority ethnic talent. Past research has reveale...

By Jill Miller, CIPD Policy Adviser, Diversity and Inclusion We know people are living longer but new research published by Imperial College London and the World Health Organisation (WHO) predicts the extent of the change by 2030. For me their forwar...

By Karen Ver, Digital Projects Manager, CIPD I was interested to find out about mindfulness. Some of us at work started an informal mindfulness drop-in session twice a week and I started going along to them. I really felt a connection with this form ...

By Jill Miller, Diversity and Inclusion Adviser February is LGBT history month. Although part of an ongoing programme to educate-out prejudice, it’s a useful formal marker to remind us that the history of progress is very recent. This year mark...

Louisa Baczor, CIPD Research Associate In the wake of the CIPD’s latest report on how professionals perceive themselves, Louisa Baczor asks the question: what do we, as the HR and L&D profession, stand for? The role of professionals in a po...

Guest blog by Paul Barrett, Head of Wellbeing, Bank Workers Charity In June last year, I was shocked to read that 31% of middle class people couldn’t find £500 if they were faced with an unexpected expenditure. This startling figure shat...

By Louisa Baczor, CIPD Research Associate In many ways, 2016 was a year filled with events that were detrimental to public trust. We experienced UK and US political campaigns based on falsehood and misinformation; cover-ups of historic sexual abuse i...