Over the past few hundred years, our world has experienced three different industrial revolutions—the first driven by the use of steam, followed by electricity, and then information technology. Now there’s another revolution upon us, and its most marked characteristic is the dizzying speed of innovation.
Wellbeing at work is still seen by many as a “soft” theme with underlying tones of health and safety and boxes to be ticked.
Andy Campbell is the HCM director at Oracle, an all encompassing role that takes on many different aspects. While responsible for thought leadership within the company, Campbell also works closely with executive teams within Oracle’s strategic customer accounts. Describing his role as something akin to evangelical in style, Campbell is responsible for spreading the message that better analytics and cloud technology can have an overwhelmingly positive effect on HR practice.
The upward momentum of chief executive pay and reward in the UK’s largest organisations has reached crisis point, the CIPD is warning.
A growing number of positions (12.5 percent) of jobs in the UK are paying over £50,000, yet surprisingly, just five percent of candidates are daring to seek higher salaries, research by CV-Library has revealed, suggesting a lack of self-belief in the British workforce.
Ninety-two per cent of businesses have limited capacity to take on more work and employers are competing to attract and retain the people they need, according to the latest JobsOutlook survey by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC).
It seems that barely a week goes by without another example of staff shortages amongst key workers in the health, transport and public services sectors receiving media attention. It is easy to dismiss this trend as interest groups trying to score political points. But the fact remains that throughout our economy, we don’t seem to…
A potential successor would make four in ten (39%) managers feel uncertain about their job security, according to new research from recruitment experts Office Angels. The study, which looked into the importance of workforce planning, surveyed over 500 UK managers to find that a quarter (24%) would feel so expendable if there was a potential…
A few years ago, I started a management development programme with Alliotts Accountants’ Guildford office which was specifically designed to empower its managers, free its partners to do what they do best – engage with their clients – and generally energise the firm’s working practices. We began by looking at the management structure and focused…
Many entrepreneurs and business people are getting increasingly critical of the education system as many young people are leaving school lacking the skills needed for work. “There are over one million young unemployed in this country and they are becoming totally demoralised by the job market. They have to be given confidence in the training…
More companies expect to create jobs than not over the next 12 months for the first time since the onset of the recession in 2008, according to a new survey by the CBI and Accenture published today (Tuesday). On the Up, the CBI/Accenture Employment Trends Survey, covers businesses employing more than one million people between…
Small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) comprise the ‘engine room’ of the UK’s business economy. Recent figures from the Department of Business Skills and Innovation underline their importance and reveal that SMBs make up 99% of all businesses and account for 59% of all private sector employment and 49% of all private sector turnover, so…
“Use the Force, Luke. Let go, Luke. Luke, trust me.” [The spirit of Obi Wan Kenobi] Have you have ever played a shoot ‘em up arcade game when the bad guys are coming at you from all directions? Have you ever been in that situation when you begin to discover you’ve played it so many …
Tempo, the alliance for recruitment agencies and hirers that is committed to raising standards in the temporary recruitment industry, has announced that Kate Wilding, Resourcing Operations Manager at Centrica, has been appointed to be one of the client representatives on the Steering Group of tempo. Kate Wilding is a noted figure in the recruitment industry,…
In recent years, large corporations have been looking at best practice ways to attract, retain and nurture new talent, whilst developing the existing workforce and seeking to generate a better gender balance amongst leaders. The logistics industry is thriving in the UK, and the sector is currently worth £93 billion. One in twelve working people…