The people function will be on a par with the finance function, and its professional structure will set new benchmarks for the business professions, CIPD chief executive Jackie Orme tells Rob MacLachlan
For 60 years, the personnel profession has met for its annual conference in a genteel Victorian spa town well off the beaten track. This week, the CIPD’s annual gathering moves to a dynamic and cosmopolitan city as its new venue. Goodbye Harrogate, hello Manchester. Moving Europe’s largest annual management event would be a major challenge for any organisation. Yet this is only one aspect of a much wider programme of change at the CIPD, instigated since Jackie Orme became chief executive 20 months ago.