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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.
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Developing inclusive approaches to supporting disabled students in higher education
20 Dec 2017How are higher education providers in England supporting disabled students? Emma Pollard writes in Employment Studies on recent IES research on behalf of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).
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Preparing for technical education routes in England
20 Dec 2017Joy Williams discusses the development of T-Levels and the impact of technical education policy reforms for the IES Employment Studies newsletter. This articles highlights the recent research and reforms, from the Wolf Report in 2011 to the 2016 Post-16 Skills Plan.
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Are compassionate organisations a possibility?
20 Dec 2017Kate Spiegelhalter writes in Employment Studies, the IES employment policy newsletter, on the rise of compassion as a way of improving employee wellbeing, increasing productivity, and creating wider impacts on organisational culture.
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Conducting a detailed workforce analysis for Cancer Research UK
20 Dec 2017Cancer Research UK recently published its report on the UK's non-surgical oncology workforce. Matt Williams and Clare Huxley offer an overview of this report and summarise the projections for what this workforce may look like in five years’ time.
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Employee engagement: Dying, or a happy ending?
15 Dec 2017Duncan Brown reflects on debate at the CIPD annual conference 2017 with Professor Ilke Inceoglu and delegates, considering whether employee engagement does actually increase productivity in the workplace.
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Market pay supplements: sticking plasters or longer-term solutions to recruitment and retention pressures?
12 Dec 2017Are pay supplements a long-term solution to recruitment and retention issues? Catherine Rickard reflects on recent IES research on behalf of the Office of Manpower Economics (OME).