Diversity should be threaded through all talent management activities and strategies so organisations can reap the benefits of accessing and developing talent from the widest possible pool. This is the main finding of a new Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) research report, Opening Up Talent for Business Success: Integrating Talent Management and Diversity, [...]

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Over the next ten years, HR professionals will play a “crucial” role in the “war for talent”, it has been claimed.
According to Friends Provident, the next decade will create a battleground for elite talent, meaning HR strategies are to become a more critical part of business recruitment operations than ever before.
In its Visions of Britain [...]

Researchers at the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) have created a top ten list of priorities for HR professionals, as the private sector emerges from recession but still generally faces tough economic conditions, and the public and third sectors face up to significant cost cutting and redundancies ahead.
The IES report summarises some of the latest [...]

Retaining and developing the skills of talented individuals is the key to long-term business success, one sector commentator has asserted.
Ruth Spellman, chief executive of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), said the recent recession has put pressure on managers, leading them to become tougher with their staff, but that this was “no excuse” for harassment or [...]

The ongoing recession has changed the approach many HR teams across the UK take to talent management in terms of recruitment and retention, new research has found.
According to the International HR Barometer survey, complied by the Scala Group, only 25 per cent of HR professionals responding to the survey were of the opinion that enhancing [...]

Businesses considering hiring interns as part of a talent management scheme have been warned to ensure they are not misusing them.
Chris Morrall, director of Talent Transitions, said that while the business sector did not want to deal with too much red tape, it was still important to ensure that interns were employed responsible.
His comments come [...]

UK businesses need to be armed with the correct information about what they are able and unable to do in terms of work internships and placements, one sector commentator has claimed, which may see HR teams better able to cope with talent management.
Rachel Krys, campaign director of the Employers Forum on Age, said that "good [...]

HR staff may wish to recommend offering employees set to retire the opportunity to continue with part-time hours should they wish, which could aid talent management and also reduce the risk of such workers developing health problems later in life.
A recent study from University of Maryland has revealed that people who work part-time in jobs [...]

People working in the UK enjoy the least public holidays, new research has found, which could have an impact on productivity in the workplace.
While the study by Mercer revealed that employees in Japan and India have some 16 days off annually due to public holidays, UK workers and those in the Netherlands and Australia have [...]