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Government response to the Taylor Review: damp squib or small step in the right direction?
7 Feb 2018Nigel Meager, institute director, on the government's Good Work Plan and its response to the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, including new IES research offering analysis of the experiences of individuals working in the gig economy.
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How can working carers be supported effectively? A new IES evaluation
31 Jan 2018New IES evaluation report identifies what employers and policymakers can do to support carers to balance work and care. The report evaluates the success of the government-funded Carers in Employment (CiE) project.
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Mind the (real) talent gap
31 Jan 2018Duncan Brown, IES head of HR consultancy, discusses the need for HR functions to address talent management challenges by investing in the upskilling of existing staff, in order to drive investor returns in the future.
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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.