Where does HR come from? A brief history of the people profession

From its origins in welfare to its digital reinvention, the story of HR in the UK is simultaneously the history of an economy in search of an identity. The CIPD's Work. magazine spoke to a group of experts about their own perspectives on the past century

by Robert Jeffery

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