Norman Pickavance

Norman Pickavance is an English business person, an advisor and writer on human resources.[1][2][3][4] He advised Ed Miliband, the former Leader of the Labour Party, on employment matters.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Pickavance's first book was published by Kogan Page in December 2014.[12]

Education

Pickavance graduated from the University of Liverpool with a Bachelor of Law Honours degree in 1985.

Career

Pickavance started his career in 1986 with Grand Metropolitan, before joining Fujitsu in 1990. He joined Perot Systems in 1995 as European HR director, and after its purchase and intergeneration by Dell in 1999, in 2000 joined Marconi Communications. In 2003 he was appointed Group HR and Services Director at Northern Foods, and in 2007 Group HR and Communications Director at Morrisons.[13][14][15]

Identified in 2011 as one of the most influential HR Directors in Europe,[16] after leaving Morrisons in 2012 Pickavance was a Non Executive Director for HM Revenue and Customs (2013-2014).[17][18]

Pickavance is currently an Advisor to The BluePrint for Better Business and National Director, People and Culture at Grant Thornton LLP.[19] Pickavance is known for being a Campaigner and Activist promoting an ethical approach to business, in helping people who are excluded or exploited in society.[20][21][22][19][23]

Awards

Personal life

Pickavance lists Social Enterprise, Coaching, Photography, Walking, Cooking and Sport as his interests.

References

  1. ↑ "HR Magazine - CIPD 2014: UK slipping into ‘two tier’ labour market, Pickavance warns". hrmagazine.co.uk.
  2. ↑ "'Have Britain's businesses been taken over by the mob?'". pioneerspost.com.
  3. ↑ Dina Medland (9 January 2015). "A 'Wind Of Change'? Leadership Re-Imagined". Forbes.
  4. ↑ "HR Magazine - Norman Pickavance: Living in the age of extremes". hrmagazine.co.uk.
  5. ↑ "TUC: Miliband Faces Clash With Unions". Sky News.
  6. ↑ "MP moves to reform zero-hours contracts". The Independent.
  7. ↑ "Miliband to attack Sports Direct’s zero-hours contracts". Financial Times.
  8. ↑ "Pickavance takes one step back to understand zero-hours staffing for Miliband". recruiter.co.uk.
  9. ↑ "Low Pay Britain: Channel 4 Dispatches - Channel 4 - Info - Press". channel4.com.
  10. ↑ "Norman Pickavance". gordonpoole.com.
  11. ↑ Jennifer Faull. "The BRC ‘totally refutes' suggestion that retailers are responsible for worker exploitation following scathing Channel 4 documentary". The Drum.
  12. ↑ Kogan Page. "The Reconnected Leader (9780749472320)". koganpage.com.
  13. ↑ "HR Magazine - Morrisons' HR director Norman Pickavance to stand down in June". hrmagazine.co.uk.
  14. ↑ "Morrisons HR boss Pickavance packs his bags". TheGrocer.co.uk.
  15. ↑ "Morrisons' HR director Norman Pickavance to depart". retail-week.com.
  16. ↑ "HR Most Influential 2011 - Results - Top 30 HR Most Influential Practitioners 2011". hrmostinfluential.co.uk.
  17. ↑ "Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005". legislation.gov.uk.
  18. ↑ "Former Morrisons HR director joins HMRC board". www.wsandb.co.uk.
  19. 1 2 eZ Systems. "About / Home - A Blueprint for Better Business". blueprintforbusiness.org.
  20. ↑ Stephen Hayward (2 August 2014). "Human cost of supermarket food price wars: Probe reveals migrant workers exploited by gangmasters". mirror.
  21. ↑ "How Sports Direct won a place in the premier league of retail". Financial Times.
  22. ↑ "Why has Labour watered down its plans to tackle zero-hour contracts?". newstatesman.com.
  23. ↑ Relocate Magazine. "John Lewis chairman calls for UK workforce overhaul". relocatemagazine.com.
  24. ↑ "Big Society Awards". www.gov.uk.
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