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Latest People Management Cover a disgrace

Katie Nalty

Hi All,

I have just received the latest People Management magazine and I am absolutely outraged by the cover which mimics a real solicitors letter addressing a case of unfair dismissal.

I am absolutely horrified that the CIPD would do something as stupid as this!

My building has a communal post service and I would  hate for my neighbours to think my company were gulity of such a thing, more so I feel for HR professionals who have their magazine posted to their work places as I can't imagine the idle gossip it could cause.

I will certainly be taking this matter further and hope that such a well respected professional body would not act so recklessly In future, I am sure other subscribers feel the same way.

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  • I must admit that although it came to my home, I got a bit of a jolt too.

    I feel that People Management has lost its way recently, particularly on social media which appears to take a Daily Mail/Express approach to headlines at time. In a couple of cases, it has almost sounded as though it is 'HR Bashing'. The most recent one was a report of a Tribunal where the organisation lost heavily - the headline was 'What can HR learn?' which very much suggests that HR had somehow failed in that case. On reading the article, it was very clear that the company didn't have a HR Department and had sought no HR advice or guidance whatsoever. It wasn't a complex case and anyone with a basic HR knowledge would have known that the company would lose so there really wasn't anything for HR to 'learn' from the case. In the article, the company said that it had highlighted the need for companies to seek HR advice, so surely a headline of "Tribunal case highlights the risks of not having HR support" would have been more appropriate?

    Having commented on the post, it appeared that several other people felt the same.
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  • I must admit that although it came to my home, I got a bit of a jolt too.

    I feel that People Management has lost its way recently, particularly on social media which appears to take a Daily Mail/Express approach to headlines at time. In a couple of cases, it has almost sounded as though it is 'HR Bashing'. The most recent one was a report of a Tribunal where the organisation lost heavily - the headline was 'What can HR learn?' which very much suggests that HR had somehow failed in that case. On reading the article, it was very clear that the company didn't have a HR Department and had sought no HR advice or guidance whatsoever. It wasn't a complex case and anyone with a basic HR knowledge would have known that the company would lose so there really wasn't anything for HR to 'learn' from the case. In the article, the company said that it had highlighted the need for companies to seek HR advice, so surely a headline of "Tribunal case highlights the risks of not having HR support" would have been more appropriate?

    Having commented on the post, it appeared that several other people felt the same.
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