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    Flexing your Remuneration

    Variable Pay at Work

    Suff P, Reilly P | Nov 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Variable pay, sometimes referred to as 'pay at risk', is the portion of the remuneration package that has to be earned on each occasion, usually by meeting and exceeding individual, team or organisational performance criteria. While the rewards from variable pay schemes can be substantial, employees are forced to shoulder more of the business risks - rewarding the 'upside' and penalising the 'downside' of performance.

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    Current Thinking on Managing Attendance

    a Short Guide for HR Professionals

    Hayday S, Rick J, Patterson M, Turgoose C | Nov 2004 | National Audit Office

    This publication is no longer available. This best practice guide by the Institute of Employment Studies and the Institute of Work Psychology summarised the thinking and related evidence on the efficacy of various approaches to managing attendance from academic and practitioner literature from the early 2000s.

  • Evaluation of Reducing Risks, Protecting People

    Rick J | Oct 2004 | Health and Safety Executive

    Reducing Risks, Protecting People (R2P2) is the document that explains the basis for the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE's) decision-making processes. As such it underpins all HSE regulatory activity. The research summarised here sought to establish the reach of the document amongst the HSE's stakeholder groups and to determine the extent to which R2P2 makes HSE activities transparent and lays the decision making process open to scrutiny.

  • High Performance Work Practices

    Tamkin P | Sep 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    The question of whether the way people are managed and treated at work contributes to the overall performance of the enterprise has been much debated. The focus of this debate has tended to be on formal processes and procedures within organisations. These high performance working practices (HPWPs) have been the subject of a wide range of studies designed to test their impact.

  • Workforce Planning: A Literature Review

    Sinclair A | Sep 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Workforce planning has been around for a number of years but there has been a resurgence of interest in this HR practice as organisations have begun to realise that the need for planning is greater than ever.

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    Managers as Developers of Others - A Practical Framework for Managers

    Hirsh W, Silverman M, Tamkin P, Jackson C | Sep 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This paper outlines how managers can improve their effectiveness in developing others, and covers setting the climate, building a developmental relationship, feedback and focus, delivering development and active career development. It also demonstrates how these elements relate to each other. The paper outlines what managers should not do when developing others.

  • Post-16 Transitions: a Longitudinal Study of Young People with Special Educational Needs (Wave Two)

    Dewson S, Aston J, Bates P, Ritchie H, Dyson Prof. A | Sep 2004 | Department for Education and Skills

    This second wave of longitudinal research with young people with special educational needs (SEN) records and tracks their progress as they moved from compulsory schooling to early adulthood. This study reports the experiences of young people two years after they completed statutory schooling.

  • Higher Degrees of Freedom

    the Value of Postgraduate Study

    Barber L, Pollard E, Millmore B, Gerova V | Aug 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This report presents the key findings of research into the factors that influence postgraduates' choice of study at Sussex University, their study experiences and labour market outcomes. In Autumn 2003 the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) worked with the University of Sussex's Career Development and Employment Centre (CDEC) to conduct the research.

  • Qualifications Bodies and the Disability Discrimination Act

    Hurstfield J, Aston J, Mitchell H, Ritchie H | Aug 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Part 2 of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 was extended to cover organisations which conferred, renewed or extended a professional or trade qualification. If a provision, criterion or practice of a qualifications body placed a disabled person at a substantial disadvantage in getting or retaining a qualification, then the qualifications body would have a duty to make a 'reasonable adjustment' for a disabled person.

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    Managers as Developers of Others - Main Findings of an IES Research Study

    Hirsh W, Silverman M, Tamkin P, Jackson C | Aug 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This paper is based on a study by IES that investigated the behaviour of managers who are good at developing other people in the workplace. This paper contains: characteristics of good and bad development support; situations where good developers make a difference; what motivates good developers of others; enablers and barriers to developign others; the impact of good and bad development support; a framework for managers as developers; some practical suggestions for managers; and information about the research.