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50 years on from IES' foundation and some Directorial reflections
21 Aug 2018Reflections on the UK labour market, employment research and informing policy-making. Nigel Meager, IES Director, reflects on his time at the Institute and what has changed as we celebrate our 50th year.
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A big juggle: what can employers and policymakers do to support working carers?
21 Aug 2018Sally Wilson offers insight on support for working carers, drawing on findings from IES' evaluation of the Carers in Employment project, on behalf of the Social Care Institute for Excellence.
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Evaluation of the NHS Innovation Accelerator
21 Aug 2018Annette Cox examines IES research evaluating the NHS Innovation Accelerator, which aims to facilitate innovation in the NHS.
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Returning to work after having a child: how families make decisions
20 Aug 2018Reflections on IES research on behalf of the Department for Education considering how families make decisions on returning to work and childcare responsibilities.
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2018 events calendar announced
21 Dec 2017Book your place for our HR workshops, conferences and network events throughout 2018 in London and Brighton, UK. Our calendar features events on gender pay gap reporting, mental wellbeing, talent and performance management, employee engagement and much more.
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New reports on gender representation and remuneration
21 Dec 2017HR Insight article on two new reports to which IES has contributed, on representation of women on FTSE boards and gender pay gap reporting respectively.
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HR and tsunamis: time for a new model?
21 Dec 2017Thirty years after strategic human resource management (HRM) ideas hit the UK, does the HR function need to rethink its purpose and structures again? Paul Sparrow, IES honorary fellow and emeritus professor of International HRM at Lancaster University, investigates.
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Market pay supplements in the public sector
21 Dec 2017In this HR Insight article, Catherine Rickard considers the use of market pay supplements in the public sector and whether they are an effective solution to recruitment and retention issues.
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Strategic HR - the view from Milan
21 Dec 2017How are Italian HR Directors grappling with the strategic puzzles being posed by low economic growth, higher than average unemployment and stagnant wage growth? Stephen Bevan reflects on conversations with directors of human resources in Milan.
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Segmenting the UK's self-employed workforce
20 Dec 2017Andrea Broughton writes in Employment Studies on recent research for the Centre for Research on Self-Employment. In offering a segmentation of the self-employed workforce, the research helps to shed a light on the great heterogeneity in this section of the UK's workforce.