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  • IES Perspectives on the HR Year Ahead 2012

    Strength and opportunities

    Dec 2011 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This report looks at opportunities for change, whilst ensuring your workforce and managers are in a strong position to embark on them.

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    Commission Staff Working Document: Restructuring in Europe 2011

    Broughton A | Dec 2011 | European Commission

    This report gives an overview of the main challenges and considerations for European actors, stakeholders and policymakers in relation to enterprise restructuring, including how this can be carried out in a way that mitigates possible negative consequences for the workforce and the environment in which enterprises operate. It also contains lessons learned from practice around the EU.

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    European Restructuring Monitor Quarterly - 2011, Issue 4

    Hurley J, Riso S, Salvatore L, Rinawi M, Broughton A | Dec 2011 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

    Consensus forecasts were pointing to slowing growth in the EU during 2012, with some at least indicating a return to recession. Sovereign debt issues in a growing number of Member States – the response to them and anxieties regarding their eventual resolution – were one important contributing factor. The decision of the European Central Bank (ECB) to make available nearly 500 billion euros to the banking system in December 2011 appeared to have bought some time to develop a more lasting solution. However, downgrades of sovereign debt in nine Member States by rating agency Standard & Poor once again underlined the fragility of the common currency. General sentiment remained volatile amid fears of a new second phase of the Great Recession of 2008–9...

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    Social partnership for anticipating change and restructuring

    Mutual learning: Finland and the Baltic countries

    Broughton A | Dec 2011 | International Labour Organisation (ILO)

    This is the final report of a project funded by the European Commission and managed by the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation, which aimed to examine best practice on anticipating restructuring in Finland, by means of tools to monitor economic and labour market developments and trends, and how far this could be used to help the Baltic States to anticipate restructuring.

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    Evaluation of the ‘Salus & Co.’ captures and cartoon strips

    Sinclair A, Oakley J, Hicks B, Tyers C | Nov 2011 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This report presents the findings of a project commissioned by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) to evaluate 25 of its ‘Salus & Co.’ strips and captures, designed to communicate messages about occupational safety and health without the need for text. IES was commissioned to conduct an external evaluation to ensure that the ‘Salus & Co.’ messages underpinning the images were understood by different types of target audiences at EU level. The methodology for the evaluation included two main elements: an online survey of OSH-mail participants and face-to-face cognitive interviews with 15 university staff and students.

  • Creating social networks for learning and sharing ideas

    Fairhurst P, Miller L | Oct 2011 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This paper discusses the potential for new technologies and social networking to facilitate new ways of learning. It presents key themes from research carried out for the NHS into establishing new social networks for knowledge and idea sharing, and also offers hints and tips for establishing a new online community.

  • Urban and Rural Issues for the Health Sector in Scotland

    Miller L, Robinson D, Butler M, Chubb C, Oakley J | Oct 2011 | Skills for Health

    Skills for Health commissioned research to examine the ways in which the Scottish Territorial Health Boards had addressed the challenges of serving an ageing, rural and remote population, compounded by the smaller number of working age people in these areas as well as ICT and travel infrastructure issues. Skills for Health aimed to use these lessons to inform health delivery policy and skills development in Scotland and across the UK more widely.

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    Wages, productivity and employment: a review of theory and international data

    Meager N, Speckesser S | Sep 2011 | European Employment Observatory

    This paper explores the relationship between productivity growth and wage growth and its importance for employment outcomes, drawing on two main sources: a review of the economic literature and an analysis of international data.

  • IES Annual Review 2011

    Sep 2011 | Institute for Employment Studies

    IES Annual Review 2011

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    European Restructuring Monitor Quarterly - 2011, Issue 3

    Hurley J, Riso S, Salvatore L, Rinawi M, Broughton A | Sep 2011 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

    The economic situation continued to be dominated by sovereign debt problems in the eurozone countries. As these continued to remain unresolved, general sentiment had turned negative amid fears of a new second phase of the Great Recession of 2008–9. Growth outlooks in the developed economies had recently been scaled back with below trend growth forecast for 2011–12. Austerity programmes, which had begun to negatively impact public employment, especially in local and central government administrations, had not thus far been accompanied by the hoped-for handover from public to private demand. Within the EU, there were a number of different labour market stories reflecting very different trajectories during and after the 2008–9 crisis. Unemployment in Spain and Ireland continued to rise while other countries severely affected by the crisis – notably the Baltic states – showed signs of a strong recovery. The German unemployment rate was at its lowest level in nearly twenty years (6%) despite a recent easing of growth while the UK unemployment rates were at an eighteen-year high (8.1%). Meanwhile in Greece unemployment had risen by 4 percentage points in the last twelve months.