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By 12 Feb, 2019 16:28
By Phil Marsland Moving from a successful career in house to creating and running my own business was a huge step. Practically and psychologically. Practically I needed sound advice and I was fortunate to have a business mentor, who pointed me towar...
By 5 Feb, 2019 12:30
Written by Rachel Suff, Senior Policy Adviser In a groundbreaking project, the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership (CIoSLEP) has secured £465,000 of Government funding to help local businesses recruit and retain people wit...
By 1 Feb, 2019 15:01
By Kay Heald I recently celebrated 13 years in business and this milestone prompted me to reflect on the highs and lows of being my own boss and operating as an independent HR Consultant. It has been a great journey, but shaped by mistakes, challenge...
By 28 Jan, 2019 14:14
By Rachel Suff, Senior Policy Adviser The CIPD welcomes the Government’s consultation to strengthen the protection for pregnant women and new parents from redundancy. It’s shocking that research commissioned by the Department for Business...
By 16 Jan, 2019 08:51
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 15 Jan, 2019 14:35
Happy New Year! If 2019 continues like our first full week back at CIPD HQ, we’re in for another intriguing and unpredictable year. Political change, economic uncertainty, and changes in the world of work will all continue to shape the context ...
By 21 Dec, 2018 14:50
As an end to a relatively tumultuous 2018 draws into clear view - and Santa ponders whether next year he should be micro-chipping his workforce - it makes sense to reflect on what 2019 might have in store for us. It’s likely to be another year ...
By 21 Dec, 2018 10:20
Here, Dipa Mistry Kandola shares her top three takeaways from CIPD and LCP’s joint reward research. Our joint research highlights more employers than expected don't promote their benefits or make them easily accessible to employee...
By 20 Dec, 2018 13:21
The apparent decline in benefits revealed by the CIPD reward management survey (although with no accompanying overall cost reduction trend) is at odds with evidence cited in our analysis for the report that employees still consider them important. Th...
By 11 Dec, 2018 15:33
We recently undertook our largest ever member survey and I wanted to let you know a little about what it told us, and to be really open about how we’re going to respond. Before I do that I wanted to thank the thousands of you who completed it a...
By 7 Dec, 2018 10:56
By Charles Cotton, Senior Adviser for Performance and Reward, CIPD This year’s CIPD reward management survey in association with LCP looks at the issue of employee benefits. It finds that there are a number of perks associated with the Christma...
By 4 Dec, 2018 13:55
Belfast’s ICC was the venue as 250 HR and learning professionals from Northern Ireland and beyond gathered for the inaugural CIPD Northern Ireland annual conference on Tuesday. Wellbeing, inclusion and the impact of technology were the core con...
By 3 Dec, 2018 16:44
Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) seem to be the latest celebrity ‘must haves’. ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ judge Craig Revel Horwood recently revealed on daytime TV that he had asked people who work for him, his builder, and even ...
By 28 Nov, 2018 01:00
By Charles Cotton, Senior Reward AdviserFor employers, what are the advantages of segmenting the benefits that they offer to employees or segmenting the workforce when it comes to communicating the benefit package? Can such an approach help an organi...
By 23 Nov, 2018 15:24
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 23 Nov, 2018 08:29
Minister for Disabled People Sarah Newton discusses the launch of the new Disability Confident guide in collaboration with the CIPD, providing line managers with practical advice on employing disabled people…. November has been an important mo...
By 12 Nov, 2018 16:55
The recent work-related stress statistics published by HSE seem to have raised some eyebrows given the higher numbers of days lost to work related stress (57% of all days lost to ill health); but for those of us who have been involved in trying to ta...
By 7 Nov, 2018 08:23
Today we will be sharing our new Profession Map for the first time with thousands of people professionals at our Annual Conference and Exhibition . The Map sets out the international standard for practitioners to make their greatest impact and thrive ...
By 5 Nov, 2018 09:00
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 2 Nov, 2018 16:46
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 1 Nov, 2018 15:46
By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst Consider this scenario. One of your employees maliciously posts the payroll data of 100,000 staff – names and addresses, bank account details and salaries – to a file sharing website. He also sends the ...
By 18 Oct, 2018 11:05
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 15 Oct, 2018 17:00
The second task in what Lord Sugar ominously calls “the process” was about designing a comic. The grizzled entrepreneur spots opportunities few can see the need for, which is probably why he developed the email phone. But a tablet compati...
By 11 Oct, 2018 18:23
I am an avid watcher of the series for all its shortcomings. I will highlight the great stuff the contestants do when skilful as well as the epic skill fails, which they all demonstrate and which hold them back. I will call out my winner after week 3...
By 11 Oct, 2018 12:21
"Skills to pay the Bills” was a rap by the Beastie Boys in 1992, when I was halfway through university as a mature student learning new skills. Skills are key to improving productivity and pay, ensuring that we can build inclusive gro...