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Zofia Bajorek considers if organisations are providing line managers with the support they need, given all the responsibilities they have to undertake - and what can employers do to support this critical role.
Many Brexit supporters argue that the UK survived WWII so can thrive after Brexit, Peter Reilly’s latest blog looks at the extent to which this parallel holds water in terms of the business and employment consequences.
With the changing nature of work resulting in greater numbers of career changes, Liz Hey and Rosie Gloster consider the ways both employees and employers can improve career engagement in the workplace.
As we move into the third year of compulsory gender pay reporting, Duncan Brown considers the issue of gender gap pensions - excluded from the calculations in the statutory requirement on gender pay reporting and also from considerations of equal pay legislation.
Duncan Brown reflects on Gender Pay Gap reporting's 'patchy progress', and outlines steps employers need to take now if they want to see results.
Many organisations are hiring chief meaning officer roles. Drawing on IES research, Stephen Bevan highlights how these efforts may be misguided, and not succeed in making work more meaningful for employees.
What developments have we seen in workforce planning since IES' foundation in the 1960s? Wendy Hirsh considers the need to ensure that workforce planning is re-positioned as a central part of effective people management.
What role should HR take in preventing or mitigating an ethical crisis? Stephen Bevan considers what HR has learned from the 2008 financial crash and whether HR should act as the moral compass of an organisation.
Dan Lucy considers the rapid nature of change facing today's organisations and how organisations might focus on the human dimension of change, rather than the processes, in order to succeed in this fast-paced environment.
Marks & Spencer has made headlines recently with news that the company may drop out of the FTSE 100 index. One proposed reason for the organisation's current troubles is its 'inward-looking' culture. Here, Dan Lucy, offers his guidance on what organisation's can do to foster resilience.
