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  • Slides: The Workforce System – a useful tool in workforce planning

    Dilys Robinson | Jan 2012 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Slides from Dilys Robinson on 'The Workforce System – a useful tool in workforce planning' which she presented at the HR Network event on 'Strategic talent management/workforce planning' on 26 January 2012.

  • Slides: Talent pool case study

    Dilys Robinson | Jan 2012 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Data for the 'Talent pool case study' which Dilys Robinson presented at the HR Network event on 'Strategic talent management/workforce planning' on 26 January 2012.

  • Slides: Analysing and using workforce information

    Dilys Robinson | Jan 2012 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Slides from Dilys Robinson on 'Analysing and using workforce information' which she presented at the HR Network event on 'Strategic talent management/workforce planning' on 26 January 2012.

  • Slides: Strategic Talent Management and Workforce Planning

    Wendy Hirsh | Jan 2012 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Opening slides from Wendy Hirsh, Principal Associate at IES, at the HR Network event on 'Strategic Talent Management and Workforce Planning' on 26 January 2012.

  • Increasing the Participation of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Employment: Toolkit

    Jan 2012 | German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

    This report containing IES research outlines the toolkit created as part of the IMPART project. The IMPART project aimed investigate how the European Social Fund (ESF) could best support projects aimed at increasing the participation of migrants and ethnic minorities in employment.

  • Increasing the Participation of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Employment: Final Report

    Jan 2012 | German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

    This report containing IES research presents the findings from the transnational learning network, IMPART; a group of 12 EU partners which came together to consider how projects which aim to increase the participation of migrants and ethnic minorities in employment can successfully implement and mainstream their good practice.

  • 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.