Includes the nature of organisations and HR’s strategic role.
Looking in the mirror at organisational development
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What does OD do?

Organisational development has been around since the late 1940s, but even practitioners working in this field find it difficult to define precisely. Valerie Garrow and Sharon Varney hold a mirror up to the discipline
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News

  • 02 July 2009
    Strategy toolkit
    HR Strategy by Rita McGee and Anne Rennie is a new title in the CIPD's toolkit series. It features practical tips, case studies, ideas, tools...
     
  • 02 July 2009
    Remploy defends bonus payments to staff
    The chief executive of Remploy has defended its reward policy after the organisation's high level of bonuses was questioned in Parliament.
     
  • 02 July 2009
    Flexibility could live on after the recession
    Forty-five per cent of employers have increased flexible working among staff as a method of saving costs during the recession, according to a...
     

Features and comment

  • 02 July 2009
    Grow your own
    Training budgets are often the first victims of recession, but HR can, and should, make the case for continuing to develop talent
     
  • Challenge to the board
    02 July 2009
    Challenge to the board
    Non-executive directors are there partly to ask the awkward questions. So why did some conspicuously fail to rein in...
     

HR essentials

  • 03 July 2009
    Review: Gerry's Big Decision
    Two award-winning real ale breweries are facing closure. Both are small businesses, employing a handful of staff, supplying mostly local pubs....
     
  • How to... maintain the employer brand
    02 July 2009
    How to... maintain the employer brand
    The concept of employer branding first appeared during the 1990s' war for talent. But now, with organisations spoilt...
     

Careers

  • Barry Spence
    02 July 2009
    Barry Spence
    My uncle was a senior trade union official at Bowaters on Merseyside and when I was 14 he suggested to me that I talk...
     
  • Lynne Weedall
    07 May 2009
    Lynne Weedall CIPD Members or People Management Subscribers only
    After leaving school I went on the management training programme at Waitrose. I found that dealing with people was the...
     

Your say

  • 18 June 2009
    Healthy suspicion
    I was interested to read about the Centre for Organizational Health and Well-being at Lancaster University ('Large employers give a shot in the...
     
  • 23 April 2009
    What's your problem? CIPD Members or People Management Subscribers only
    Thanks to Steve Crabb for raising the subject of customer service in his blog ('Do organisations actually care about their customers?', 27 March)....
     

Blogs

  • 02 July 2009
    Apparently, I'm old and dangerous
    According to the Office for National Statistics, for the first time there are more people aged over 65 in the UK than there are people aged under...
     
  • 29 June 2009
    Welch urges HR forward in troubled times
    I'm lucky enough to be attending this year's conference of the Society for HR Management (SHRM - the US equivalent of the CIPD) in New Orleans....
     
 

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