By Sue Hutchinson
The main message from this report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development is that line managers need to be recognised as strategic partners of Human Resource professionals.
The role of line managers is becoming increasingly important in influencing employee engagement in the workplace. New research commissioned by the Institute shows that there is confusion as to the role of line managers. 

By Marcia L. Worthing and Charles A. Buck.
The authors set out a step-by-step process to help get the bored, burned out, retired, or fired, back on track.
Everyone deserves a second chance at a great career. That’s why Escape the Mid-Career Doldrums offers a step-by-step process that will help mid-career professionals get back on track. 

Despite the pressure for local councils to follow the lead of the private sector and develop shared service and partnership arrangements, the barriers in terms of culture, differences in priorities across councils and lack of experience are formidable. Yet this is the most likely source of meeting government targets for reduced overheads and improved organizational effectiveness. 

By Stephen Denning
The book introduces the concept of narrative intelligence - an ability to understand and act and react agilely in the quicksilver world of interacting narratives.
It shows why this is key to the central task of leadership, what its dimensions are, and how you can measure it. 

The survey of income trends for human resources professionals from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development shows that for the first time in ten years, training professionals earn higher than the average HR salary. The survey also found that one of the main reasons HR professionals working in the public sector experience low levels of engagement is due to bad management.
Managers in the learning and development field earn an average of 45,000 pounds. 

By Allison Fine
The author looks at a new and empowering ways of approaching and organizing social change. How can we move from serving soup until our elbows ache to solving chronic social ills like hunger or homelessness? How can we break the disastrous cycle of low expectations that leads to chronic social failures?
The answers to these questions lie within Momentum, a fresh, zestful way of thinking about and organizing social change work. 

This report from the Department of Health describes how innovative practice in delivering care in more convenient settings is being developed across the speciality groups of ear, nose and throat, gynaecology, orthopaedics, dermatology, urology and general surgery.
Each chapter describes how one speciality area fared in delivering care in more convenient settings currently. 

This book from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, although focused on the private sector, is also relevant to public sector organizations that rely on external partners such as suppliers and consultants to operate effectively. These people have valuable knowledge which is strategic to the organisation and often essential to the delivery of services. 

By Robert Cialdini, Steve Martin and Dr. Noah Goldstein.Every day professionals in the public communications sector have to persuade others to do things, but how? The book gives many insights into the question. It contains serious science, but always with a light touch and shows how influence revolves around key principles that anyone can learn, often with unexpected results. 

Edited by Hugh Bochel and Sue Duncan.The book is set in the context of the Government’s emphasis on ‘modernisation’, and it reflects the growing emphasis on policy making as a skill. It combines both academic and practitioner perspectives to provide critical consideration of contemporary policy-making and highlights examples of good practice at all levels of government.