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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 6 Sep, 2021 08:00
Amy Taylor, chief people officer at PKF Francis Clark. Training and development for aspiring accountants has come a long way since our founder Frank Clark was an articled clerk in Southern Rhodesia more than a century ago.Today the fi...
By 6 Sep, 2021 08:00
By Anne Wexelstein - Career Ready, Director for Scotland I am excited. Thanks to an introduction from John Stewart, SSE HRD, I am in the position to be writing this blog to CIPD members and as a CIPD member myself. Truth be told, it...
By 6 Sep, 2021 08:00
By Olivia Taylor Last September, when I was going into my third year studying at the University of Strathclyde (BA Hons Human Resource Management and Psychology), I, like every student, was beginning to think about summer internships for the followi...
By 3 Sep, 2021 11:34
Carly Walker, Equalities Intern, South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE). South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE) has recently employed five Modern Apprentices on a two-year programme in five areas of the organisation: ...
By 3 Sep, 2021 09:20
Rebecca Scollan, HR Advisor, Devenish Nutrition. As an organisation we recognise and understand that to be a truly high performing organisation both now and into the future, we needed to develop an internal pipeline of talent, incorporating the ...
By 27 Aug, 2021 00:01
At Compass Group UK and Ireland we believe passionately that everyone must have the opportunity to develop and progress. While we are food and support services business – we describe ourselves as a “people” business first....
By 25 Aug, 2021 15:07
Author: Beth Whittaker, Chief Human Resources Officer, Veolia UK and Ireland. Never before has the environment been such a hot topic. Driven by generation Z, the concern about the care of our planet's health is gaining traction in a bi...
By 20 Aug, 2021 00:00
Author: By Natasha Adams, Chief People Officer, Tesco. Like the CIPD, at Tesco we believe in supporting young people to build meaningful futures. A whole generation is currently grappling with the disruption that COVID-19 has caused to edu...
By 13 Aug, 2021 00:01
Debbie Alder, the People, Capability and Place Group Director General, DWP. Movement to Work (MtW) began in 2013 when a group of UK companies set out to tackle youth unemployment by helping employers ...
By 2 Aug, 2021 15:28
Claire McCartney, Senior Resourcing and Inclusion Policy Adviser, CIPD.Polly Harrar, Founder, The Sharan Project, Lead Delivery Partner, EDAC. Last year, the CIPD and the Equality and Human Rights Commission(EHRC) launched comprehensive guidance...
By 15 Jul, 2021 01:00
Ben Willmott is CIPD’s Head of Public Policy. The unprecedented heatwave that at the time of writing is gripping parts of the US and Canada is a sharp reminder that the pandemic is not the only ...
By 14 Jul, 2021 15:31
Melanie Green, Research Adviser, CIPD The pandemic has prompted many a debate about the roles we value as a society, with key workers often in the spotlight, doing vital work in difficult circumstances. And t...
By 8 Jul, 2021 14:12
Rachel Suff, Senior Policy Adviser (Employment Relations), CIPD. We’re now 18 months into the health pandemic and the world’s scientific and medical communities continue to grapple with the COVID-19 disease as it ...
By 8 Jul, 2021 08:00
Charles Cotton, Performance and Reward Adviser, CIPD. ‘…for increasing numbers of working families around the country, the promise of social mobility through “hard work” as a route out of poverty alone is failing to deli...
By 5 Jul, 2021 08:00
By Lee Ann Panglea – Head of CIPD Scotland and Northern Ireland The CIPD’s public policy work in Northern Ireland is stepping up. And it is happening at a very opportune time too – skills policy has shot up to the top o...
By 1 Jul, 2021 08:00
Patrick Gallen, Partner, People and Change Consulting, Grant Thorton. We are no longer working from home, rather living at work. Or, as a colleague recently said, “The weekend now feels lik...
By 1 Jul, 2021 08:00
Bob van Geldere, HR Manager, Clanmil Housing. 1) How do you think attitudes to flexible working have changed over the last year? Many organisations already had some flexible working arrangements ...
By 1 Jul, 2021 08:00
Heather Palmer, founder KaleidoPeople and HR Business Partner Employee Relations and Policy BBC. 1) How do you think attitudes to flexible working have changed over the last year? The attitudes to flexibility a...
By 1 Jul, 2021 08:00
Amna Salim, Head of Client Relations, PwC’s Academy. Amna Salim is Head of Client relations at PwC's Academy the talent and Skills development business of PwC Middle East. A young working mother, a client facing professional, and a tea...
By 1 Jul, 2021 08:00
Mona AbouHana, Chief People Officer for EMEA and the Middle East, PwC. The past 18 months have caused a massive shift in the way we work and live. We all were faced with new challenges and had to adapt to a different environment as we made ...
By 29 Jun, 2021 13:08
The Fair Work Convention and CIPD Scotland last month joined together to form a strategic partnership, working to ensure fair work drives success, wellbeing and prosperity for individuals, businesses, organisations and society across Scotland. Fair W...
By 29 Jun, 2021 09:56
Claire McCartney, Senior Policy Adviser, Resourcing and Inclusion at the CIPD and Lisa Carver, Carver Coaching who has published research on supporting parent returners as well as supporting workplace returners in general during the pandemic, discuss...
By 22 Jun, 2021 09:50
By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser The first Working Lives Scotland report was released three months after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. While it was already apparent that we were experiencing an unprecedented event, one ye...
By 14 Jun, 2021 12:20
Work can and should be a force for good, but the CIPD’s Good Work Index 2021 shows that job quality still falls short in a number of areas. Issues like lack of work-life balance, lack of development and high workloads a...
By 14 Jun, 2021 10:04
By Ben Wilmott, Head of Public Policy, CIPD. Last week’s ruling that ‘gender critical’ views are a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act is the latest development in the debate about transgender rights and ...
