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We’re now a quarter of the way through the 21 st century. The last 25 years have seen immense change, from technological developments, to geopolitical change and environmental concerns, and I think we...
By 24 Mar, 2020 14:49
By David D'Souza, Membership Director at the CIPD. The past few weeks have seen unprecedented levels of change in our way of life, with the impact on people and organisations being impossible to avoid. The impact has been overwhelming f...
By 20 Mar, 2020 11:32
By Charles Cotton, CIPD senior adviser for Reward and Performance.I was fortunate enough to attend one of the 2020 Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s conferences a couple of weeks ago. This event, which was held in Edinburgh, focused o...
By 16 Mar, 2020 16:09
By Charles Cotton, CIPD senior adviser for Reward and Performance.There are just two weeks to go before employers must disclose their gender pay gap data (31 March for the public sector and 4 April for the private sector). To date, while around ...
By 9 Mar, 2020 16:20
By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser at CIPD Scotland I am not a people professional. I have never worked in HR. I am not in the market for software solutions to improve my company’s people management capabilities. You see, bef...
By 9 Mar, 2020 08:05
By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst at the CIPD.The TUC is calling on government to make action plans a compulsory part of gender pay gap reporting. Its latest analysis of ONS statistics shows that, since 2011, the gender...
By 6 Mar, 2020 13:22
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 4 Mar, 2020 14:28
By Claire McCartney, Senior Policy Adviser at CIPD. The CIPD welcomes new legal right to paid parental bereavement leave – Jack’s LawLucy Herd, Jack’s Mother and prominent campaigner, and Claire McCartney, senior policy ad...
By 4 Mar, 2020 08:51
By Jill Miller, Senior Policy Adviser for Diversity & Inclusion at the CIPD. ‘Everyone in the organisation has a role to play in creating an inclusive workplace’ is a key message we’re discussing at the CIPD as part of LGBT...
By 26 Feb, 2020 17:31
By Gerwyn Davies, Senior Policy Advisor - Labour Market. UK productivity growth of 0.3% over the past ten years recently won the Royal Statistical Society’s accolade as the ‘statistic of the decade’. However, analysis of the la...
By 25 Feb, 2020 14:22
By Alexandra Carr, Community Lead, Branch Development. We know that all branch volunteers work hard, and we are grateful for the difference committee members make in Championing Better Work and Working Lives, so we have created an award to than...
By 25 Feb, 2020 12:00
By Edward Houghton, Head of Research at the CIPD. Good HR is built on evidence. From the design of new performance management programmes to the management of an employee grievance, its critical to make use of information, data and insights every step...
By 24 Feb, 2020 11:29
Lizzie Crowley, Senior Policy Advisor - Skills The world of work is rapidly changing, impacting on how organisations approach learning at work. In this fast-changing world, learning needs to evolve and it must be accessible and agile. Many organisati...
By 24 Feb, 2020 08:05
By Charles Cotton, CIPD senior adviser for Reward and Performance. There are just five weeks left to publish your gender pay gap data (the deadline is 30 March for public sector employers and 4 April for those in the private and voluntary sectors). I...
By 20 Feb, 2020 14:58
By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst With perfect timing, Veganuary was ushered in this year with a ‘landmark’ judgment on ‘ethical veganism’. The case, Casamitjana v League Against Cruel Sports, involves a zoologist who was the...
By 11 Feb, 2020 11:09
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...
By 3 Feb, 2020 14:37
Guest blog by David Coyne, Senior Policy Adviser, Skills Development Scotland No-one can deny these are interesting times. We are bombarded by news stories and reports from think tanks which paint a picture of a world in chaos. Whether it is politica...
By 28 Jan, 2020 13:45
Charles Cotton, CIPD senior adviser for reward and performance A CIPD survey of around 2,000 employees carried out last summer found 23% of them had asked their employer for a pay rise in the past few years. Further analysis found that men had been m...
By 21 Jan, 2020 16:13
By Charles Cotton, Senior Adviser for Performance and Reward, CIPD CEO pay has been in the spotlight for some time now, but 2020 could be the year that businesses truly wake up to their responsibility to ensure that people&nb...
By 21 Jan, 2020 00:01
Most of us spend a large portion of our waking hours at work, and so the quality of the working environment has a significant impact on our well-being. A supportive culture with positive relationships can greatly enhance our experience of work; confl...
By 17 Jan, 2020 09:45
If you’re in a senior HR executive position, you may be considering taking on a non-executive directorship (NED), either to help strengthen your skills in your day job, add variety, or because you have a long-term plan of moving into a portfoli...
By 14 Jan, 2020 10:55
By Peter Cheese, CEO, CIPD There's little doubt that we'll all see a lot of change in the next 10 years. Much is uncertain and hard to predict, although we can see many of the drivers for change now. From the acceleration of technology in al...
By 6 Jan, 2020 21:54
If the last few years in politics has taught me anything, it’s that there is absolutely no point predicting anything. So throw those 2020 predictions pieces out the window. Here are some things I hope – not predict – will happen in...
By 6 Jan, 2020 15:47
By CIPD's Scotland Senior Public Policy Adviser, Marek Zemanik. Around this time of year everybody reflects and looks ahead - to a new year and a new decade. I started this year looking back a bit further. You see, last year marked 30 years since...
By 3 Dec, 2019 10:16
By Professor Emeritus Stephen J. Perkins, Global Policy Institute, London and London Metropolitan UniversityTo make sense of findings from the results in the CIPD 2019 Reward Management Survey report, a useful starting point is to ask how they eviden...
By 2 Dec, 2019 10:49
By CIPD's Scotland Senior Public Policy Adviser, Marek Zemanik. I am a recovering political adviser. OK, maybe that’s a bit unfair. I have not fought a war, battled addiction or been through a traumatic experience. But the last eight ...
