Publications
We author and publish a range of resources to keep you up to date with the latest developments in employment, labour market and human resource policy and practice.
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Wage formation in the EU
Broughton A | Mar 2009 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working ConditionsThis report examines wage formation in the EU from a range of perspectives. It analyses the main systems of wage formation in operation and looks at the main wage developments of the past five years. This includes an overview of recent sectoral agreements, along with an analysis of trends at company level and of the social partners’ views.
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Encouraging Women into Senior Management Positions
How Coaching Can Help
Broughton A, Miller L | Feb 2009 | Institute for Employment StudiesThis research examines the factors underlying women’s progress through organisational structures and the reasons why women in senior management positions in the USA and in Europe decide to accept or decline board-level jobs. We hope that the research will inform the debate in the US and worldwide, and illuminate the development of further coaching topics and strategies that might be needed to help greater numbers of women progress into board-level positions.
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Financial Well-being in the Workplace
Cox A, Hooker H, Markwick C, Reilly P | Feb 2009 | Institute for Employment StudiesThis report explores the relationship between financial well-being and employee performance at work. It incorporates one of the first surveys of employee financial well-being in the UK.
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Organisational Responses to the HSE Management Standards for Work-related Stress
Progress of the Sector Implementation Plan Phase 1
Tyers C, Broughton A, Denvir A, Wilson S, O'Regan S | Feb 2009 | Health and Safety ExecutiveWorking to reduce the causes of work-related stress is a key area for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). This research was designed to evaluate a particular aspect of this work, the Management Standards for work-related stress, Sector Implementation Plan Phase 1 (or SIP1). This report provides an overview of the progress of SIP1 and draws together a range of qualitative data, including the experiences of organisations participating in SIP1, from the perspective of managers and staff working in those organisations, and the experiences of HSE and Acas staff supporting participating organisations.
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Managing Stress and Sickness Absence
Progress of the Sector Implementation Plan Phase 2
Broughton A, Tyers C, Wilson S, O’Regan S | Feb 2009 | Health and Safety ExecutiveThis report reflects research that evaluates the HSE’s Sector Implementation Plan Phase 2 initiative, which aimed to help organisations manage stress and absence. It explores the effectiveness of the intervention in influencing procedures for managing work-related stress and sickness absence in organisations in the HSE’s target sectors. It also examines organisations’ existing policies and procedures in sickness absence management and stress management practices.
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Train to Gain Learner Evaluation: Report from Wave 2 Research
Newton B, Regan J, Hillage J | Feb 2009 | Learning and Skills CouncilTrain to Gain was designed as a national service for businesses that provided help to identify and source training that would improve their business performance and the skills of their workforce. It aimed to encourage employers to invest in the development of the skills and qualifications of their employees. This report presents the findings from the second wave of the Train to Gain learner evaluation and is based on survey analysis of 7,614 learners.
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Train to Gain Learner Evaluation: Report from Wave 3 Research
Levesley T, Regan J, Bellis A, Oakley J, Hillage J | Feb 2009 | Learning and Skills CouncilTrain to Gain was designed as a national service for businesses that provided help to identify and source training that would improve their business performance and the skills of their workforce. It aimed to encourage employers to invest in the development of the skills and qualifications of their employees. This report presents the findings from the third wave of the Train to Gain learner evaluation, and is based on a telephone survey of 8,385 learners, plus qualitative interviews with 100 of those learners.
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HR in Recession: what are the prospects and priorities for HR management in 2009?
Brown D, Reilly P | Feb 2009 | Institute for Employment StudiesGlobal Crisis set to Decimate HR.' This was how one HR magazine headline-writer cheerfully chose to summarise prospects for the new year in late 2008. But though the pundits are universally depressed with their economic prognostications, the implications they draw out for HR and people management are far less uniform and at times seemingly contradictory, in terms of both overall prospects and specific priorities. So just what are the implications and where should we be focusing our under-pressure resources?
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Evaluation of Partners Outreach for Ethnic Minorities (POEM) - Interim report
Aston J, Bellis A, Munro M, Pillai R, Willison R | Feb 2009 | Department for Work and PensionsThe Partners Outreach for Ethnic Minorities (POEM) programme began in March 2007. It supported people of working age who were not in contact with Jobcentre Plus services, were not working or claiming benefits, and were non-working partners in low income families. Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Somali communities were the target groups, with a particular focus on women. The evaluation of the first year of POEM comprised case study work with providers, partners and other stakeholders involved in delivering POEM; 50 face-to-face interviews with POEM clients; and analysis of POEM Management Information.
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Talent Management: Practical issues in implementation
Hirsh W | Jan 2009 | Institute for Employment StudiesThe term ‘talent management’ is clearly a big hit with HR people, but will the recent talent craze yield real business value? If talent management does help, it will do so by shifting our thinking and/or by helping us to act more effectively.
