CIPD

In order to boost the performance of their coaching initiatives, organisations need to introduce evaluation processes aligned with business strategy.

Despite high levels of domestic unemployment, organisations are turning to both migrant workers and offshore outsourcers in a bid to plug UK skills gaps as the economy starts to recover.

Redundancy levels are expected to jump by 50% over the next quarter, dashing coalition hopes that private sector employers will create enough jobs to offset public sector cuts.

The CIPD urges the government to consider 'nuclear options' but to realise that engagement and trust will win greatest advantages.

A recent policy paper about skills quangos released by the CIPD has been branded “wildly inaccurate” and “unprofessional”.

The CIPD says all employers should be obliged to pay interns a guaranteed ‘Training Wage’ to prevent exploitation.

The ‘emergency’ budget, delivered by Chancellor George Osborne on 22 June 2010, and how it is significant for managers and HR.

Government plans to focus on spending cuts rather than tax increases will stall any recovery in the jobs market later this year and cause unemployment to hit three million by the second half of 2012.

To tackle welfare dependency, addressing structural problems such as lack of skills investment and too many low-paid and insecure jobs will be vital.

The governments proposed £6bn in budget cuts, which includes a civil service recruitment freeze, will have negative knock-on effects on the private sector.