Purpose – Outlines and reports on a radical new approach to developing both an organization and its people to enable those people to be themselves in body, mind and spirit while at work and so feel fulfilled – and, in the process, enable the organization to be more successful....

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide an interview with award‐winning author Professor Samuel Culbert. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides an interview with Samuel Culbert, author of get Rid of the Performance Review! Findings – In the interview, Culbert...

Purpose – This paper aims to focus on the importance of ensuring that enough women take their place on boards of directors. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides statistics to underline the under‐representation of women in the higher echelons of companies. It looks at how the...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe an award‐winning training program that helped UK electronics business Bourns to improve its products, streamline its working practices, reduce its costs, cut delivery times and reinforce a culture of continuous improvement. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe an award‐winning training program at Greenock‐based National Semiconductor UK Ltd. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explores the reasons for the program, the form it takes and the results it has achieved. Findings – The paper explains that...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe how strategic outsourcing and energy‐services company MITIE has teamed up with the UK's Cranfield School of Management to provide its most promising senior operational managers with strategic business education. Design/methodology/approach – The paper...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe how HSBC is set to offer all new parents a part‐time role at a pro‐rata salary and the same level as their original role following maternity or paternity leave. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explains the reason for the policy and the...

Purpose – The paper aims to detail how UK automotive‐repair group Nationwide is reforming its apprenticeships to improve the retention rates of trainees during and after the program. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explains the reasons for the changes, the form they will take and...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe the impact of constant organizational change on human‐resource management at print‐services company Konica Minolta. Design/methodology/approach – The paper considers the company's recruitment, employee‐development and benefits policies and includes...

Purpose – Describes how OpenText, an international enterprise‐software company, wanted to align its expanding European business under a common framework, following a period of rapid growth, and so chose more than 100 employees to go through workshops focused on sales and customer service....