Written by: Dawn Nolan - personneltoday.com HR services made up one-fifth of all outsourcing deals in 2014, and contracts are evolving from transactional HR to more sophisticated strategic talent management services. What’s behind this emerging trend? Dawn Nolan reports. HR outsourcing has experienced an explosion in demand....
By Nicola Middlemiss - hcamag.com Born between 1994 and 2000, Generation Z might seem a little baby-faced to most HR managers but, according to one new study, they’re set to change the landscape of leadership as we know it. The survey, conducted by Randstad in...
Written by: Scott Beagrie - hrmagazine.co.uk Covering the key areas from offering choice and flexibility to eliciting feedback and measuring success, this is HR magazine's guide to creating an effective staff benefits scheme. Staff benefits programmes have become a vital tool in the HR armoury. They can...
Written by: Grace Lewis - cipd.co.uk Unleash your inner HR business partner and embrace long-term planning It wasn’t long ago, in a recent edition of People Management magazine, that we were debating whether the HR business partner model was a dying breed. But at a recent CIPD...
By Lucy Gilmore - hrmagazine.co.uk In a perfect world everyone would be promoted objectively on merit. However, the reality is very different. There are many qualities that put people on the fast track to promotion and leave others trailing in their wake. Perhaps the most important of...
By Janine Milne - diginomica.com SUMMARY: It’s time to bin performance management as we know it, argues Heidi Spirgi. There isn’t any more hated tool in the HR universe. So says Heidi Spirgi, senior vice president of product and technology services at The Marcus Buckingham Company, of performance...
Written by: Jason Geller - fastcompany.com There’s no shortage of challenges facing business leaders today. From data breaches to competition from emerging markets, the list goes on. But the most important challenge facing leaders isn’t an external threat. It’s the one that’s coming from inside company...
Written by: Janine Milne- diginomica.com SUMMARY: Monitise is a familiar story – a fast growing business, expanding rapidly overseas whose internal systems cannot match the same pace of change as the business. A cloud-based HR strategy is helping address those challenges. Bruce King, SVP group HR at mobile technology firm...
Written by: Nick Martindale - hrmagazine.co.uk Enterprise social networks (ESNs) are becoming increasingly popular among larger organisations, but how can HR encourage employees to engage with them? In an era where people of all ages are increasingly comfortable with the concept of social networking – using sites...
A new CIPD study charts the HR function’s rise as business partner and calls on practitioners to consider the long-term when planning continuing professional development....