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    HR Outsourcing in the UK

    Reilly P, Wolfe H | Apr 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    The subject of HR outsourcing has attracted considerable attention during recent years and there is a lot of talk in the personnel press about the subject. However, there exists rather less detail on its extent and the strategic intent that underpins it. Is there really a shift towards a greater and deeper outsourcing of HR activities? This review seeks to address this question.

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    Facing the Market

    How Best to Align Remuneration Levels

    Reilly P, Silverman M | Apr 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Over time, there has been a general shift away from considerations of internal equity towards external equity. The value of a specific job role has become less about the particular skills that the employee brought to the job and more about its market price. This paper discusses how to establish the value of a job and looks at the issues of occupation, sector and location. The authors answer the question 'what drives interest in market-based pay?' and examine market-based pay in practice.

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    Secondments: a Review of Recent Research

    A Background Paper for IES Research Network Members

    Barkworth R | Mar 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    The purpose of this document is to try to bring together the existing literature on secondments, so that the process can be accurately defined, its usage assessed, and lessons learnt. What is clear is that the subject is, so far, largely ignored by the academic research community and so the information available is drawn primarily from case study examples.

  • Tackling Poor Performance

    Strebler M | Mar 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    What is 'poor performance', and who defines levels of acceptability? There are many reasons why people perform poorly, each of which can be tackled in a different way, ranging from formal to informal approaches, and with intentions to either improve or remove. This report looks at the approaches by seven large employers and offers strategic choices in understanding and tackling poor performance.

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    Managers as Developers of Others

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

    Organisations are now placing heavy emphasis on the role of the manager as coach, and on the workplace as a learning environment. This report contains a literature review of ideas about managers as developers of others, presents the IES research findings, including a framework for managers, and relates some of the narrative accounts collected.

  • The Drivers of Employee Engagement

    Robinson D, Perryman S, Hayday S | Mar 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Engagement is a frequently used and fashionable term. Research into engagement, however, is almost non-existent. It appears that 'engagement' is not a recognised academic construct, yet all of us feel intuitively that we understand what it means. The work in this report is built on in 'Engagement: The Continuing Story', an IES report which tests our enagement measure and drivers tool in different settings and sectors.

  • Asian EMERGENCE: The World's Back Office?

    Huws U, Flecker J (eds) | Mar 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    The rapid development of eWork in Asia was, by the mid 2000s, leading to an equally rapid growth of a new professional and technical middle class in the Asian cities and regions where this development was taking place. This was driving a general development process, accompanied by an equally explosive growth in markets. This study drew on 59 in-depth case studies of eWork relocation, exploring the trends and implications for managers, workers and policy makers. It built on earlier work by the EC-sponsored EMERGENCE project carried out on 2000-2001.

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    Pay and Location

    What are the Key Issues for Employers?

    Reilly P | Mar 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Local base pay or local allowance systems face common issues compared with using national renumeration structures but there are differences. We consider both the general cases for and against localised pay, and specific points of difference between the alternative routes. We conclude with a checklist of points for employers to consider before they proceed down the local pay route.

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    Employing Refugees

    Some Organisations' Experiences

    Hurstfield J, Pearson R, Hooker H, Ritchie H, Sinclair A | Feb 2004 | The Employability Forum

    This research explores the attitudes of employers towards refugees and highlights the main issues. It aims to inform those who are in a position to make a difference, and to stimulate further debate on an important area of public policy.

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    How Employers Manage Absence

    Bevan S, Dench S, Harper H, Hayday S | Feb 2004 | Department of Trade and Industry

    In the main, managing absence was not a major issue of concern for the employers in this 2001 survey. Indeed, in response to recruitment difficulties, there were instances of organisations introducing initiatives aimed at employees to improve their work-life balance.