CIPD

In this podcast Chris Roebuck, visiting professor of transformational leadership at Cass Business School, Gill Rider President of CIPD and former Civil Service head of HR, Robert Booker, HR Director at BG Group plc, a global gas organisation, Michael Chivers, Corporate Vice President Human Resources at Sony Ericsson and Ed Griffin, Development Partner at D3 Partners and Interim HR Direct at Chime Marketing, take a controversial look at HR. They explain why they believe that far too many HR operations have scant insight into the organisation’s business goals

In this podcast John Philpott gives his new year forecast and Jean Tomlin, HR Director for The London 2012 Organising Committee, tells us about running the HR side of the Olympics.

This podcast examines trust in the workplace and in leadership generally: whether it has diminished and if so, how can it be rebuilt? Philippa Lamb talks to Vanessa Robinson, CIPD Head of HR Practice, Veronica Hope-Hailey - Associate Dean, MBA Programmes & Professor of Strategic Human Resource Management, Jane Beine, Head of Partner Development at John Lewis, Kirit Patel, CEO, Day Lewis Pharmacy, Plc and Carol-Ann Edwards, Director of Learning and Organisational Development, Norton Rose

More and more organisations are recognising the value of social media to their success. Neil Morrison, Group HR Director at Random House, Richard Sealey, Director at Foviance and Alison Chisnell of Informa share their experiences

In this podcast Philippa Lamb discusses pensions with Pensions Minister, Steve Webb , Charles Cotton, CIPD Public Policy Advisor, Reward, Steve Rumbles, Head of UK DC Pensions at BlackRock and Tim Taylor, Head of Reward and Recognition at TUI Travel UK and Ireland.

In this podcast some young people discuss their experiences on training schems along with Jennifer Oakley, recruitment Delivery Manager for Transport for London and Zarena Brown, HR Director, Hilton Hotels who both run youth employment programmes. Katrina Rudiger gives the CIPD perspective.

According to CIPD’s research Shaping the Future, the ability to be continually change-ready is one of the eight key factors that contribute to the most successful organisations and if leaders and followers can be permanently agile then the organisation has a greater chance of sustainable success. Agility is discussed with Dr Jill Miller, CIPD Research Adviser, Jonathan Cormack, Group Head of Organisation Development at Standard Chartered Bank, Dharmendra

In this podcast Claire McCartney, Adviser Resourcing and Talent Planning, CIPD, Charlotte Rayner, Professor of Human Resource Management at Portsmouth Business School, Anand Pillai, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Quality, Talent Transformation and Leadership Development, HCL Technologies, and Ian Mintram, Glaxo Smithkline-Senior Vice President, HR leadership of Emerging Markets, discuss how a shared sense of purpose is defined and what that translates into for the organisation and its employees.

How can organisations effectively deploy reward to achieve objectives in many different locations and how can they maintain equity and motivation and when market rates and conditions vary so much around the world? Charles Cotton, the CIPD’s Adviser on Reward, Peter Newhouse, Global Head of Reward at Unilever and Frances Richardson, Head of Reward at Oxfam, discuss.

In this podcast John Baker, former Development and HR Operations Director, Legal & General, Charles Elvin, Director, Centre of Professional Learning and Development, The Open University. Clive Hutchinson, Company Leader, Cougar Automation and John McGurk, Learning and Talent Adviser, CIPD discuss what impact social media is having on the world of work and how learning and development is becoming 'social'