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By 20 Feb, 2017 12:07
In what many are describing as a ‘ post-truth ’ world, where experts are less trusted and we are all bombarded with information and limitless opinions via social media, developing our careers as professionals takes on a wider importance. Ca...
By 17 Feb, 2017 18:45
The CIPD has just submitted its response to the Government’s Green Paper and consultation Work, health and disability: improving lives . The Green Paper has far reaching proposals for how employers support people’s health as well as how it...
By 13 Feb, 2017 13:49
On Tuesday February 7 CIPD Scotland delivered a business breakfast on Diversity and Inclusion in Scotland’s capital and financial hub Edinburgh. Working with City HR and Oracle Corporation we were guests of Standard Life. As one of Scotland lea...
By 6 Feb, 2017 11:09
If you’re thinking of calling in sick today, some statistics suggest you may not be alone. In 2011, 1 February was earmarked as national sickie day by business support company ELAS who saw an upsurge in people calling in sick on that day. Since...
By 3 Feb, 2017 11:18
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 1 Feb, 2017 09:42
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...
By 30 Jan, 2017 08:09
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...
By 27 Jan, 2017 10:11
By Richard Goldsbrough, Student Development Manager, CIPD On 25th February I’ll have the honour of chairing the CIPD London Student Conference at the excellent Friends House venue. I go to conferences like this on a fairly regular basis, both t...
By 25 Jan, 2017 15:47
Recent years have brought a growing debate and disquiet about income and wages growth and inequalities. Since the global financial crisis of 2008, average wages growth has flattened in most of the advanced economies and many economists are predicting...
By 24 Jan, 2017 20:45
Kellyanne Conway’s gaffe on Sunday that patently incorrect statements by Donald Trump’s press secretary were ‘alternative facts’ has received a level of derision rare by any standards. The mickey-takes have rolled in from far ...
By 19 Jan, 2017 13:56
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 16 Jan, 2017 15:23
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...
By 16 Jan, 2017 08:30
Today is Blue Monday - a day which, somewhat controversially, has come to be associated in the media with understanding depression. Mental ill-health is one of the biggest threats to well-being and a source of real pain and suffering for many and it ...
By 12 Jan, 2017 10:06
This week the Scottish government published its response to a consultation on the operation of the apprentice levy in Scotland. This is the Westminster government’s key skills agenda, and many employers and their organisations have raised conce...
By 10 Jan, 2017 16:11
By Catherine Rickard, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Employment Studies The New Year is often a time for taking stock of finances, assessing the damage from the festive spending binge and thinking about the future. Following Christmas, Citizen...
By 12 Dec, 2016 16:12
This time last year, I reflected on a year of remarkable cultural, economic and political change. 2016 has probably brought even more surprises from Britain’s vote to leave the European Union to the hotly contested presidential elections in the...
By 26 Oct, 2016 16:49
November will see thousands of HR and L&D practitioners gathering at our Annual Conference and Exhibition. It’s always a great source of pride to see so many people committed to their continuing professional development, and it provides an ...
By 6 Oct, 2016 11:01
Pay and reward are increasingly in the public and political spotlight, which is hardly surprising given the growing issues of income inequality and concerns about executive pay. As with many practices at work, trends evolve and, from time to time, ne...
By 24 Aug, 2016 09:28
As HR and L&D professionals, we all know that investing in people – developing their skills and looking after their well-being – is not only the right thing to do as a responsible employer, but is also key to building resilient and pr...
By 3 Aug, 2016 12:23
A week on, and we are deep into an increasingly surreal post-Brexit turmoil which no one could have predicted. This is without doubt a time for strong leadership, not only for reassurance, but for a sense of vision and direction. But we have a vacuu...
By 3 Aug, 2016 12:22
We’ve all had a lot to talk about over the last month. If we thought the European football championship was unpredictable with the success of small nations against big nations, then the vote for Brexit (a word now officially in the Oxford Engli...
By 29 Jun, 2016 16:45
As if we needed further reminders of the importance of positive working cultures, the continuing corporate scandals and most recently the dubious working practices recently exposed at UK retailer Sports Direct have again brought the debate about corp...
By 25 May, 2016 10:20
Flexible working is a fundamental part of the modern workplace. Whether it’s part time working, working remotely, job sharing, or working ‘irregular’ hours, it gives many people the opportunity to fit work around their other commitm...
By 28 Apr, 2016 09:12
Technology and the digital world’s influence on work, and almost all aspects of our lives, is growing all the time. It’s disrupting businesses and sectors, facilitating the emergence of new kinds of business models, enabling new ways of w...
By 29 Mar, 2016 12:24
Public policy and regulation have a big impact on labour markets and employment, on businesses, and what we have to pay attention to. But by their nature, they are a somewhat blunt instrument of change and can have unintended consequences due to the ...