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  Obtaining Customer Feedback on HR

  Finding out what managers and employees think of HR services and the HR function

  Carter A, Hirsh W, Mercer M, Reilly P | Aug 2011 | Institute for Employment Studies

  There continues to be a lively debate in organisations about whether to seek the views of customers about HR (and which customers to ask) and, if so, how to go about it. By talking to a number of different organisations, IES researchers looked at why they chose to do so, and the varying methods used.

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  Workplaces and Social Networking

  The Implications for Employment Relations

  Broughton A, Higgins T, Hicks B, Cox A | Aug 2011 | Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas)

  This report sets out the results of a small-scale research project commissioned by Acas examining the implications of social networking and mobile information and communications technologies (ICT) for employment relations.

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  Work-Focused Services in Children's Centres Pilot: Final Report

  Marangozov R, Stevens H | Aug 2011 | Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

  This report presents final findings from the evaluation of the ‘Work-Focused Services in Children’s Centres’ Pilot. A baseline and interim evaluation report have already been published. This final report builds on all the findings from these previous evaluation reports and research components, as well as Management Information.

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  Voluntary Gender Equality Reporting in Organisations with 150 to 249 Employees

  Dewson S, Gloster R, Chubb C, Carta E, Reilly P | Aug 2011 | Government Equalities Office (GEO)

  This report was produced for the GEO by the Institute for Employment Studies and aimed to understand transparency on gender pay gaps and workforce diversity in organisations with between 150 and 249 employees. It investigated both the propensity of organisations of this size to be open about pay and diversity in their organisation and what they do analyse and report on.

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  Top Employers for Working Families - Benchmarking Report 2011

  Swan J, Morris L, Mercer M and Jackson S | Aug 2011 | Working Families

  In terms of engagement and motivation, the evidence shows that well-managed flexibility elicits higher performance and the potential business benefits of flexible working on productivity, financial performance, quality, employee attraction, retention, commitment and reduced absence are well documented. Many organisations have deployed flexible working in the recession with great success. This benchmark aims to provide data and a crucial insight into what is currently working in practice, what needs to work, and the direction of future organisational focus.

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  Disability and Skills in a Changing Economy

  Meager N, Higgins T | Aug 2011 | UK Commission for Equality and Skills (UKCES)

  The UK Commission developed a series of Briefing Papers with a focus on equality and skills in a changing economy. The aim was to inform and enable connected thinking about how to enable opportunity in the labour market through skills. Each paper provided commentary and analysis for an equality group or theme: disability and skills in a changing economy; gender and skills in a changing economy; low skills and social disadvantage in a changing economy; older people and skills in a changing economy and spatial inequality and skills in a changing economy.

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  What do researchers do? Career paths of doctoral graduates 2011

  Pollard E, Metcalfe J, Hodges V | Aug 2011 | The Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC) Limited

  To further explore how highly-skilled doctoral graduates contribute to UK society, culture and economy, this report highlights the employment pathways of researchers within and between six distinct occupational clusters; describing the stability, mobility and progression of researcher careers. This study illustrates that doctoral research training is a good foundation for a wide variety of occupations and demonstrates the flexibility of researchers who take advantage of a diversity of employment opportunities.

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  Evaluation of the Duty to Manage Asbestos

  Sinclair A, Tyers C, Hunt W, Oakley J, Pearmain D, Savage J, Bust P, Gibb A | Aug 2011 | Health and Safety Executive (HSE)

  This research evaluates the impact of the Duty to Manage asbestos in non-domestic premises. It aims to: establish levels of compliance with the Duty; establish the extent to which compliance by dutyholders has brought about improved work practices among maintenance workers; re-assess the assumptions made in the Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) which accompanied the introduction of the Regulations about costs/benefits of the duty; identify/investigate factors influencing dutyholders' compliance with the Duty and examine any barriers to compliance; and determine the proportion of non-domestic and domestic rented premises which contain asbestos and the rate at which this is being removed.

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  Skills for Self-Employment

  Meager N, Martin R, Carta E | Jul 2011 | UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES)

  The study provides an invaluable resource to inform policy in this area covering business start-up, support for unemployed people to become self-employed, enterprise education, and business growth. This small scale, explorative research study looks at the hitherto relatively under-researched question of the role of skills and training in the development of self-employment. It draws on a literature review, data analysis from the Labour Force Survey, and a series of expert interviews.

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  Evaluation of National Skills Academies - Synthesis Report

  Johnson C, Hillage J, Miller L, Bellis A, Oakley J, Sumption F, Tu T, Ginnis S, Gosling R | Jul 2011 | Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

  In 2008 the Institute for Employment Studies and Ipsos MORI were commissioned to conduct a two-year evaluation of National Skills Academies (NSAs) by the former Learning and Skills Council (LSC), now the Skills Funding Agency. NSAs were first established from 2006 and were rolled out incrementally over five rounds of development, under a competitive bidding process. This report synthesises evidence gathered over both years of the evaluation.