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  Data Protection Aspects Within the Framework of Socio-Economic Research

  Rosier K, Vereecken I | May 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

  Socio-economic research involves the collection and other further processing of personal data. The processing of personal data is regulated by law, and the researchers have therefore to comply with these legal requirements. These guidelines have been drafted taking into account Directive 95/46/CE and the national legislation of most of the current Member States of the European Union that implement it. They outline the general principles governing data protection, provide for key concept descriptions, and include a series of recommendations, allowing the researcher to take into consideration the various requirements in the field of data protection.

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  Overcoming Barriers to Adult Basic Skills in Sussex

  Bates P, Aston J | May 2004 | Sussex Learning and Skills Council

  This report uncovers the barriers to adult basic skills learning, such as issues of stigma and negative perceptions, practical barriers relating to health or childcare and cost, barriers experienced by providers (eg, funding and class sizes) and barriers to workplace learning. The report considers how, and to what extent, these barriers can be overcome and highlights elements of good practice.

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  South West Healthy Labour Market Review

  Williams M, Tackey N D | May 2004 | South West Regional Employment Forum

  The research was produced for the South West Regional Employment Forum. It presents the findings of an analysis of the health of the South West labour market on a range of labour market indicators.

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  Managing Careers in Large Organisations

  Hirsh W, Jackson C | Apr 2004 | Work Foundation

  Managing careers in large organisations looks at the changing context of career development, processes for managing careers and career development roles and organisational capability.

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  Occupational Segregation, Gender Gaps and Skill Gaps

  Miller L, Neathey F, Pollard E, Hill D | Apr 2004 | Equal Opportunities Commission

  As the first stage of a programme of research to investigate gender segregation IES carried out a review of research and an analysis of labour market and training statistics in five occupational areas where there were skills shortages. This publication is no longer available.

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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.

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  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.