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    Barriers to Employment for Disabled People

    Goldstone C. Further analysis by Meager N | Feb 2002 | Department for Work and Pensions

    This report presents findings of a survey conducted with 2,008 employers aimed at identifying and examining the barriers to employment which disabled people face. The study compares findings with earlier research conducted amongst employers, to chart transitions over time, and explores three key areas: the existence and nature of policies relating to the employment of disabled people; employers' practices with regard to disabled people in the workplace; and employers' awareness of and responses to government initiatives and legislation, in particular the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

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    Awareness, Knowledge and Exercise of Individual Employment Rights

    Meager N, Tyers C, Perryman S, Rick J, Willison R | Feb 2002 | Department of Trade and Industry

    This report presents the findings of a nationally representative telephone survey of 1,000 economically active people of working age (males 16-64, females 16-59), focusing on their levels of awareness and knowledge of employment rights and their exercise of those rights.

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    The Agile Manager

    Tamkin P | Feb 2002 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This briefing attempts to disentangle the key trends about how work is changing from the rhetoric, and distil the hype to the essential truths. We spoke with leading HR managers about the changes they see in their organisations and the impact of technology on management and leadership. We looked at 'futures' studies, to make sense of what is being predicted for organisations and what this means for managers within them.

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    Job Families and Other Taxonomies

    Robinson D | Feb 2002 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This paper has been written following discussions with IES colleagues, and informed further by a literature search on the subject of job families. All our member organisations use a variety of employee taxonomies and several have experimented with the job family approach. We are interested in what works, and what does not, and in the organisational factors that need to be in place for an employee taxonomy to be usable and useful.

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    How Can We Manage Work-Related Stress?

    Thomson L | Feb 2002 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Over the past decade, organisations have become increasingly aware of the need to manage stress. There have been two drivers for this. The first is the need for a motivated and productive workforce, where the negative effects of stress on attendance, performance, job satisfaction and commitment are minimised. The second is an organisation's legal responsibilities for the care of their employees.

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    The Value of eLearning

    How Can you Tell?

    Kerrin M | Jan 2002 | Institute for Employment Studies

    There is widespread evidence from both organisational reports and academic literature of the increase in the use of eLearning as part of a portfolio of training options available to HR managers. This paper addresses some of the challenges in this area for training and HR professionals and outlines some solutions for the future.

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    January 2002 Graduate Salaries and Vacancies

    Barber L, Perryman S | Dec 2001 | Association of Graduate Recruiters

    The twice-yearly survey for the Association of Graduate Recruiters Members.

  • Partnership Under Pressure: How Does it Survive?

    Reilly P | Dec 2001 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Management/union partnership is the right approach to employee relations according to many politicians, trade unionists and business people. Management benefits by employees accepting the organisation's business goals. Employees benefit through their employer tackling issues of importance to them, including: equal opportunities, reward, work/life balance, training, health and safety, and work organisation.

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    An Assessment of Skill Needs in Information and Communications Technology

    Connor H, Hillage J, Millar J, Willison R | Dec 2001 | Department for Education and Skills

    This is the report of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Skills Dialogue undertaken by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) and the sector National Training Organisations (e-skills NTO, EMTA and Skillset).

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    Skill Needs in Electronics

    Hillage J, Cummings J, Lain D, Jagger N | Dec 2001 | EMTA, The National Training Organisation for Engineering Manufacturing

    The electronics sector was one of the most vibrant parts of the UK manufacturing sector in 2002. However, there had been increasing reports that the future growth of the sector was being constrained by an endemic skill shortage. To clarify the extent and nature of skill needs in the sector and examine the barriers to meeting those needs EMTA, the National Training Organisation for Engineering Manufacture an in-depth research study. This publication is no longer available.