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    Irish and Non-Irish National Construction Workers

    Research on differences in approach to health and safety at work

    Sinclair A, Hill D, Tyers C | Nov 2008 | Health and Safety Authority (Ireland)

    This research examines the root cause(s) of the high proportion of accidents and fatalities involving non-Irish national workers in the Irish construction sector (as evidenced by statistics from the Central Statistics Office). The results were used to inform future Health & Safety Authority (Ireland) campaigns, training and other initiatives.

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    Where Next for HRM?

    Rediscovering the heart and soul of people management

    Marchington M | Nov 2008 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This working paper argues that HR needs to review the focus of its contribution to ensure that it retains distinctiveness and so adds real value. The author reasons that HRM needs to reconsider its roots in people management and its unique selling point, which is based in a broader and more pluralistic definition of the subject. This paper was commissioned by IES as part of its Visiting Fellows scheme, marking the Institute's 40th anniversary.

  • Activity Agreements Evaluation

    Synthesis Report

    Hillage J, Johnson C, Newton B (IES), Maquire S (Centre for Education and Industry), Tanner E, Purdon S (National Centre for Social Research) | Oct 2008 | Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)

    Activity Agreements were designed for young people aged between 16 and 17 not in employment education and training (NEET) for at least 20 consecutive weeks. By signing an agreement the young person agrees to take part in a series of activities (designed to help them move towards an employment, education or training outcome) in exchange for an allowance. The agreements were piloted in eight areas between April 2006 and March 2008.

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    Britain and the European Social Model: Capitalism Against Capitalism?

    Hyman R | Oct 2008 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This paper outlines some of the key arguments which suggest that Britain and the rest of Europe – or at least, continental western Europe – represent incompatible varieties of capitalism, and explores this further by considering some of the meanings of that elusive concept, the ‘European social model’. The paper looks at the complex interconnection between economic integration and social (or labour market) regulation within the EU.

  • Helping People who are Out Of Work Because of Ill-Health to Return to Work

    A Literature and Programme Review for the Improving Health, Increasing Employment in Birmingham and Solihull Project Board

    Francis R, Barnes H, Lucy D, Savage J, Oakley J | Sep 2008 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This literature and programme review was commissioned by the Improving Health, Increasing Employment Project Board of Birmingham and Solihull (IHIE) to help plan future programmes for existing Incapacity Benefit claimants.

  • IES Annual Review 2008

    Sep 2008 | Institute for Employment Studies

    IES Annual Review 2008

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    Modelling the cost effectiveness of interventions, strategies, programmes and policies to reduce the number of employees on sickness absence

    Revised Report

    Pilgrim H, Carroll C, Rick J, Jagger N, Hillage J | Sep 2008 | National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence

    The guidance provides recommendations for good practice that are based on the best available evidence of effectiveness and cost effectiveness. This report aims to assess the cost-effectiveness of a range of interventions to return people to work following long term sickness absence. It accompanies the report of the evidence review of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of these interventions.

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    Learning and Development 2020 - Exploring the future of workplace learning

    Phase I report - trends, scenarios and emerging conclusions

    Fairhurst P | Sep 2008 | Training Journal

    This is an exploration of how Learning and Development (L&D) in organisations might develop over the next five to ten years, particularly focusing on the implications for L&D professionals. The report finds that learning is moving towards a more continuous and social process, where informality replaces the more structured interventions of the past.

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    From Competence and Competition to the Leitch Review

    The utility of comparative analyses of skills and performance

    Keep E | Sep 2008 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This working paper sets out to: examine the broader role, contribution and limitations of comparative international skills benchmarking studies; identify those elements of the influential Competence and Competition study that represented a lasting contribution to British debates about education and training (E&T); and identify where new approaches to old problems may be emerging elsewhere in the developed world.

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    Entrepreneurship, Gender and Job Creation

    European dynamics

    Cowling M | Sep 2008 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Since the seminal Birch job creation study (1979), policy-makers across the world have been keen to promote entrepreneurship as a mechanism for creating new employment opportunities. In parallel with this political desire, researchers have sought to isolate what types of people become entrepreneurs and what types of entrepreneurs create the most jobs. At the basic level, we observe that men constitute the majority of the total entrepreneurial stock. But our research finds that (a) much of the observed differential is easily accounted for by differences in sector and occupational characteristics of men and women, and (b) the true gender difference is diminishing rapidly over time.