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  • Corporate Warming

    Managing the workforce environment

    Mar 2007 | Adecco

    This report by Loudhouse for Adecco, with advisory input from IES, investigates attitudes and opinions towards the workplace today, looking at employee issues, such as motivation and workforce attrition, whilst also addressing the role of workforce management and human resources at a strategic level.

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    Motivating Key People

    Dilys Robinson | Mar 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Is your organisation losing its key people? Do you know why, and what might have persuaded them to stay? Are you confident that you can identify your key people and explain what makes them key? Do you know what motivates them, and why they might be looking elsewhere for job satisfaction? This paper aims to help you answer these questions and profiles different kinds of key people, for a practical and strategic approach.

  • Higher Education and ESF Objective 3

    An Evaluation of Impact

    Aston J, Dewson S, Hillage J, Bates P, Usher T | Feb 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

    The Higher Education European Social Fund (HE ESF) Unit has been responsible for managing ESF projects for the HE Sector in England since 2001. This report provides a greater understanding of the social, economic and labour market impacts of HE ESF projects. It comprised four methodological elements: desk research; literature review; secondary data analysis of HE ESF project closure reports; and case study research.

  • Organisations' Responses to the Disability Discrimination Act

    Simm C, Aston J, Williams C, Hill D, Bellis A, Meager N | Feb 2007 | Department for Work and Pensions

    This report explores organisations' awareness of and responses to the Disability Discrimination Act, looking particularly at issues relating to employment, provision of goods, facilities and services, public functions and private clubs. The research builds on a similar study undertaken in 2003, and is based on 2,000 telephone interviews and 50 case studies. A separate technical report outlining the methodological approach and the research design is available from the DWP.

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    Workplace Health Connect: January 2007 Progress Report

    Tyers C with Gifford J, Gordon-Dseagu V, Lucy D, Usher T, Wilson S | Feb 2007 | Health and Safety Executive

    Workplace Health Connect (WHC) was a confidential service designed to give free, practical advice on workplace health, safety and return to work issues, to smaller businesses (with 5 to 250 workers) in England and Wales. This progress report was commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to evaluate the first eight months of the service. This publication is no longer available.

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    The Impact of the National Minimum Wage

    Pay Differentials and Workplace Change

    Denvir A, Loukas G | Feb 2007 | Low Pay Commission

    This report investigates the ways in which firms have made organisational changes, including changes to systems of incentives and rewards, in response to any compression of pay differentials following the 2005 uprating of the National Minimum Wage (NMW).

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    Adapting assessment and development to the changing nature of work

    Vic Hartley | Feb 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This paper highlights the inadequacies of traditional approaches and points to new procedures that meet today's needs, in this important aspect of talent management. It also provides an example of where the proposed new approach has produced startling results which have provided high-quality assessment data at a fraction of the cost of traditional approaches.

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    Several routes to an HR nirvana: but is it all a mirage?

    Peter Reilly | Feb 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This paper examines the main routes towards HR reform, pointing out potential pitfalls and how to avoid them. The paper examines the different routes towards HR transformation: structural reform; outsourcing; process modernisation; and technological innovation.

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    Is HRM evidence-based and does it matter?

    Rob Briner | Feb 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

    From fortune-tellers to football managers and from homeopaths to home secretaries, all practitioners tend to believe quite strongly that what they do is based on evidence. This paper explores these issues in order to make the case that while HR has made great progress in starting to engage with evidence it still has some way to go, as a profession and practice, before it can truly claim to be evidence-based.

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    The Role of Loan Commitments in Credit Allocation on the UK Small Firms Loan Guarantee Scheme

    Cowling M | Feb 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

    In this paper we provide empirical evidence concerning the nature of loan commitment contracts and the extent to which individual loan parameters interact with each other. Specifically, we consider how the quantitative allocation of credit, the loan amount, is affected or altered by changes to other components of the total loan package. By doing so we shed some more light on the type of real world trade-offs that credit constrained firms might face when approaching banks for funds, using the UK governments loan guarantee programme.