Publications

Search results

• 📄

  Managing Staff Retention

  Bevan S | Jul 2001 | Institute for Employment Studies

  It wasn't so long ago that UK employers were worried about labour surpluses. Inevitably, as recession turns into boom, concern about growing levels of employee turnover and skill shortages bubble up once more. So are employers right to press the panic button again? Should they brace themselves once more for long-forgotten turbulence in the labour market?

• 📄

  Attendance Management Strategies

  Bevan S | Jul 2001 | Institute for Employment Studies

  Three approaches to managing attendance are discussed in this paper: management policy, preventative measures and rewarding attendance.

• 📄

  People, Positions and Places

  Using Labour Market Information to Improve Locational Decision Making

  Williams M, Maginn A, Reilly P | Jul 2001 | Institute for Employment Studies

  The main aim of the project was to investigate the use of labour market information (LMI) in decisions about where to locate business premises and jobs in the UK. Anecdotal information had suggested that expensive mistakes can occur where LMI is either not used, is misunderstood, or is marginalised in relation to other factors. The project has looked for evidence to back up such anecdotal information and we found some limited evidence of this.

• 

  Does it Pay to be Family-Friendly?

  Exploring the Business Case

  Bevan S | Jul 2001 | Institute for Employment Studies

  Flexible working is one of the most important vehicles for improving employees' ability to balance the demands of work and life. This paper summarises the main elements of a business case for flexible working. In doing so it draws upon labour market forecasts, research on employee demand for flexible working and recent studies of the bottom-line impact of adopting such practices.

• 📄

  European Social Fund Objective 3: Leavers Survey 1999

  Dewson S, Atkinson J, Goldstone C, Glendinning R | Jul 2001 | Department for Education and Skills

  The study aimed to assess the experiences of beneficiaries who had taken part in Objective 3 projects to explore their labour market difficulties, identify their activities on the projects, and ultimately to look at their outcomes from the projects. In essence, the research sought to learn whether ESF Objective 3 had made any difference to the labour market chances of those taking part.

• 📄

  Long-term Evaluation of Self-employment Assistance Provided by the Prince's Trust

  Initial Findings

  Meager N, Bates P, Cowling M | Jul 2001 | Department for Education and Skills

  This report contains initial findings from a three-year study, following a sample of young people (aged 18-30) receiving business start-up support from The Prince's Trust. The study aimed to identify the wider benefits of such support, in comparison with other labour market interventions and, in particular, to look at the impact of such programmes on longer-term employability.

• 📄

  July 2001 Graduate Salaries and Vacancies Half-Yearly Review

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

  IES continued its work for the Association of Graduate Recruiters with this edition of the twice-yearly survey for AGR Members. The report is free to AGR members and can be ordered directly from the AGR.

• 📄

  eWork in Europe

  Results from the EMERGENCE 18-Country Employer Survey

  Huws U, O'Regan S | Jun 2001 | Institute for Employment Studies

  Another report from the acclaimed EMERGENCE Project, this pioneering survey tracks, for the first time, the use of eWork across the EU and in the three largest Central and Eastern Europe candidate states. Not only does it show employers' use of ICT to support homeworking and multilocational working, and to relocate work to remote back offices and call centres, it also documents the use of electronically supported outsourcing, the locations involved, and the reasons for their choice.

• 📄

  Employers' Views of Postgraduate Physicists

  Jagger N, with Davis S, Lain D, Sinclair E, Sinclair T | Jun 2001 | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

  This study was commissioned by the Physics Programme of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The study was intended to examine the views of those who employ postgraduate physicists as to both the quantity and quality of the current provision. In line with previous studies covering postgraduates of other disciplines, special emphasis was put on examining employers' requirements in terms of soft skills.

• 📄

  Attracting New Learners: a Literature Review

  Hillage J, Aston J | Jun 2001 | Learning and Skills Development Agency

  This report provides a review of the literature on initiatives to stimulate demand for post-16 learning. Examples of policy and practice initiatives from the UK, America, Europe and Australia are categorised into three broad types: stimulating mass demand, through widespread publicity, provision of advice and guidance or funding and making the provision of learning more flexible; stimulating demand for learning among targeted groups of individuals and communities; and stimulating demand among employees and for work-related learning.