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By 31 Oct, 2019 16:40
When I returned to the world of HR after two years in the non-HR wilderness, many of my former contacts asked me what had changed about the profession in my time away. My answer: materially not that much, but what had shifted hugely was the context. ...
By 30 Oct, 2019 13:39
By Oli Howard, Membership Strategy Lead. As an organisation, the CIPD is committed to becoming more environmentally conscious. We’re working with our staff, members, partners and stakeholders on our approach to sustainability across all ou...
By 25 Oct, 2019 07:53
First things first: very few people actively like networking. Even those of us who are naturally good at it don’t joyfully bounce into a room full of strangers, thinking ‘great, these are friends/colleagues/clients I haven’t met yet...
By 24 Oct, 2019 15:57
By CIPD's Richard Goldsbrough, Senior Membership Manager.I am now into my last week with the CIPD, having worked in the membership development team here for just over 5 years. In that time I’ve been incredibly lucky to get a real insi...
By 22 Oct, 2019 12:53
By John McGurk, currently on sabbatical from the CIPDProper teaching started on the 10th of September It has been a full‐on, roller-coaster learning experience since then. We started off with probably the most challenging learning experience any of u...
By 22 Oct, 2019 10:46
By Brad Taylor, Director of People and OD at the CIPD.Within organisations across the UK, there is a growing need to support the mental health of their employees. In the last year, 39% of UK employees experienced mental-ill-health where work was...
By 18 Oct, 2019 01:05
By Rachel Suff and Claire McCartney, advisers at the CIPD The menopause is an urgent workplace issue that all employers should be taking seriously. Half the workforce is female, which means half the workforce will go through the menopause at som...
By 8 Oct, 2019 13:48
There’s no shortage of data telling a story around a skills mismatch between employers and the labour force. The last annual (2018) CBI/Pearson report on skills and education found that two-thirds of employers fear there will be a lack of suffi...
By 8 Oct, 2019 13:25
The focus of this year’s World Mental Health Day is on suicide prevention. Suicide can be an uncomfortable issue to address – but it is a vital that we raise awareness about it in the workplace. According to the World Health Organization ,...
By 25 Sep, 2019 14:30
An Introduction Susannah and Philippa share the role of Head of Academic Quality at Nottingham Trent University , managing a team of 12. Both had many years' experience in the Higher Education sector before forming a job-share partnership, an...
By 20 Sep, 2019 11:30
I’m intrigued, slightly surprised, that ‘sponsoring’ is seen as a progressive solution for workforce diversity. In her generally excellent book on gender equality interventions, Iris Bohnet advocates not just mentoring but more...
By 19 Sep, 2019 16:38
Cliches become cliches for a reason, and ‘culture eats strategy for breakfast’ is one such example. As experts within the people profession, you will know culture is multifaceted; that it is hard to define, harder to measure – but ...
By 12 Sep, 2019 14:30
By John McGurk, currently on sabbatical from the CIPD. I have behaved curiously all my life. By curious I don’t mean unexplained weird behaviour or some kind of curtain twitching nosiness. I mean that I always want to learn and explore things. ...
By 6 Sep, 2019 10:38
By Dr Aideen Young, Evidence Manager, the Centre for Ageing Better Our research shows that workers in later life want work that they find personally meaningful, intellectually stimulating and sociable. They want jobs that are flexible and come with op...
By 21 Aug, 2019 00:01
Few would argue HR doesn’t have a leading role to play in setting reward strategy for an organisation’s broader workforce. But at executive levels it can be a different story, with decisions over top pay led by remuneration comm...
By 8 Aug, 2019 09:57
In June, Stonewall were delighted to attend CIPD’s Festival of Work conference and deliver a workshop on LGBT-inclusive workplaces. Sarah Campbell, Head of Conferences and Events at Stonewall talks about the session, top tips, and how the audie...
By 2 Aug, 2019 16:37
By Jon Boys , Labour Market Economist at the CIPD. In this blog we ask, who works at the weekend? 1 in 5 of us that work, do so on the weekend but this proportion differs markedly by various characteristics. Most important is the type of job someone d...
By 22 Jul, 2019 16:46
By Warren Howlett, Head of HR Content at the CIPD. The shutters are down in the meeting room, through the open door you catch a glimpse of management consultants at the white board with the heading “Org Design Criteria”. Should HR be...
By 16 Jul, 2019 11:25
By Rachel Suff, Senior Policy Adviser, CIPD; Tony Vickers-Byrne, Chief Adviser HR Practice, CIPD; Andrew Walker FCIPD FCPFA, formerly Director General HR, House of Commons and Nick Pahl, Chief Executive, Society of Occupational Medicine Occupational ...
By 16 Jul, 2019 10:04
This week the Government published Health is everyone’s business – a public consultation on a range of measures to reduce ill health-related job loss. It is seeking views on how employers can best support disabled people and people with l...
By 15 Jul, 2019 09:55
By Deborah Garlick, Director, Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace and Claire McCartney, Co-Director of Inclusive Talent and Associate, CIPD The menopause is an important workplace issue that affects many employees, and we were delighted that it fea...
By 15 Jul, 2019 09:48
Back in 2015, when I was editor of HR magazine, I wrote a piece exploring whether investors were finally beginning to take workforce data seriously when it came to making valuation decisions about a company. In it I cited research that foun...
By 8 Jul, 2019 16:41
By Brad Taylor, Director of People and OD, CIPD At the CIPD, our mission is to champion better work and working lives for everyone. And that mission needs to start with us. We strive to provide a workplace and working practices that reflect our missi...
By 3 Jul, 2019 16:45
By Rob Neil, Head of Culture Change and Leadership, Department for Education. "Not everything that is faced can be changed, yet nothing can be changed until it is faced" James Baldwin This uncomfortable and imposing truth is one which ...
By 18 Jun, 2019 16:39
By Richard Goldsbrough, Senior Membership Manager, CIPD I’ve been having lots of conversations in recent weeks with members, talking about value for money and how they can get more from their CIPD membership. It’s really important to...