KPN extends HR cooperation with Logica
Logica today announced that it is providing KPN with HR management information services. As part of this outsourcing contract five KPN employees will transfer to Logica’s offices in Rijswijk, The Netherlands. The 6.5 year contract has a value of € 2.8 million.
Successful contracting for HR outsourcing
More HR outsourcing contracts succeed than fail, yet success depends on the positions taken and behaviours used when contracting for these services. Tim Palmer offers some practical advice.
HR strategy: In search of a new direction at Croydon Council - HR in practice
As recently as three years ago, the Croydon Council had no organisation-wide HR strategy. Each of the eight council departments had its own personnel and training team, delivering transactional HR services, such as recruitment, benefits and payroll. There was no strategic overview of the workforce and no consistent approach to delivering HR services.
Quarter of HR don't want payroll responsibility
New research has found that a quarter of finance professionals in charge of payroll would actually rather it was part of HR, yet almost the same number of their HR counterparts say they would rather it was part of finance. Read more 23 June 2008
Final destination? HR in the future
HR has come a long way since its previous incarnation as 'personnel' but that's not to say its long-term future is assured. Louise Druce looks at some of the challenges that could lie ahead over the next few years. Read more 17 June 2008
