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  • IES Annual Review 2009

    Oct 2009 | Institute for Employment Studies

    IES Annual Review 2009

  • Early Assessment of Business Link Health Checks

    Cowling M, Oakley J | Oct 2009 | Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    Business Link Health Checks were introduced in November 2008 as part of the government’s Real Help for Businesses Now package to help businesses identify and respond positively to the issues faced as a result of the economic downturn. This report provides an early assessment of Health Checks in terms of the effect it has on business behaviours and the anticipated longer-term outcomes.

  • Increasing the effectiveness of reward management

    An evidence-based approach

    Armstrong M, Brown D, Reilly P | Oct 2009 | Institute for Employment Studies

    The paper describes how organisations pursue effectiveness in reward management. It goes on to distil the lessons learnt into a model of evidence-based reward management that has the potential to enable line and HR managers to make better reward decisions and inform confirmatory research.

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    Research to Shape Critical Mass Pilots to Address Under-Representation in Apprenticeships

    Marangozov R, Bates P, Martin R, Oakley J, Sigala M, Cox A | Oct 2009 | Learning and Skills Council

    This project informed the development of critical mass pilots to tackle inequalities in the representation of particular groups in apprenticeship programmes. The pilots offered additional support to assist in the attraction, retention and completion of apprenticeships. The groups targeted included potential apprentices with disabilities, those who would be gender atypical within an occupation, and those from ethnic minority groups. This project consisted of three elements: a literature review, analysis of secondary data, and findings from 24 expert interviews.

  • Review of Employer Collective Measures: Policy Review

    Cox A, Sumption F, Hillage J, Stone I | Oct 2009 | UK Commission for Employment and Skills

    This report is one of a suite of outputs of the Review of Employer Collective Measures study. The study reviewed the effectiveness of levers on increasing employer investment in skills on a collective basis, such as through levies and tax incentives, in order to provide advice to Ministers on which collective levers might be most effective to introduce or expand.

  • Review of Employer Collective Measures: Final Report

    Stanfield C, Sloan J, Cox A, Stone I | Oct 2009 | UK Commission for Employment and Skills

    This report is one of a suite of outputs of the Review of Employer Collective Measures study. The study reviewed the effectiveness of levers on increasing employer investment in skills on a collective basis, such as through levies and tax incentives, in order to provide advice to Ministers on which collective levers might be most effective to introduce or expand. This paper draws together the study as a whole and presents advice on policy development options in light of the existing evidence.

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    Evaluation of the Race Equality Procurement Pilots

    Tackey N D, Barnes H, Fearn H, Pillai R | Oct 2009 | Department for Work and Pensions

    The Procurement Pilots were an initiative that was introduced in three government departments in 2006 to encourage procurers to achieve better race equality outcomes when procuring services. This report presents the full findings from the research to evaluate the models developed by procurers in the three departments to achieve the equality outcomes by working with suppliers in selected contracts, and assisting them to change or improve their approach to workforce equality and diversity. The specific means of achieving the changes were through compliance with new conditions in the selected contracts.

  • An Ageing Workforce: the Employer's Perspective

    Barnes H, Smeaton D, Taylor R | Sep 2009 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This study assesses the range of schemes introduced to prevent early exit (whether voluntary or involuntary) and to facilitate the employment of staff to pension age and beyond. The project was designed to explore how effectively and comprehensively different types of employer (eg by size and sector) are responding to workforce ageing.

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    The Geographical Distribution of UK Talent: causes and consequences

    Cowling M | Sep 2009 | Institute for Employment Studies

    In this paper Cowling considers, in a UK context, how talent is distributed across the larger cities of the UK and the key factors which appear to be driving this spatial distribution. He also considers what the potential economic outcomes of these disparities are for cities in the UK.

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    Evaluation of Partners Outreach for Ethnic Minorities (POEM) - Final Report

    Aston J, Bellis A, Munro M, Pillai R, Willison R | Sep 2009 | Department for Work and Pensions

    The Partners Outreach for Ethnic Minorities (POEM) programme began in February 2007 and ran for two years. It supported people of working age who were not in contact with Jobcentre Plus services, who were neither working nor claiming benefits. The evaluation of POEM was conducted over two years and included three rounds of case study work with providers, 101 face-to-face interviews with clients and analysis of POEM Management Information (MI). This report presents the findings of the evaluation, including the ways in which providers engaged with clients and recruited them onto POEM, how providers worked with clients on the programme, and how clients were helped to move towards or into work.