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    A Guide to the Current and Future Trends in Administration

    Tyers C | Aug 2000 | The Council for Administration

    An overview of how changes in the way businesses operate have affected, and will continue to affect, the development and execution of the administrative functions within organisations. It also offers practical recommendations about how to adapt to these changes. This publication is no longer available.

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    Employers Skill Survey: Case Study - Food Manufacturing Sector

    Dench S, Hillage J, Reilly P, Kodz J | Aug 2000 | Department for Education and Employment

    The Secretary of State for Education and Employment established the Skills Task Force to assist him in developing a National Skills Agenda. An important part of this remit was to provide evidence on the nature, extent and pattern of skill needs and shortages, and their likely future development. A substantial amount of the evidence came from a major programme of new research which looked at the extent, causes and implications of skill deficiencies. This is one of nine reports, with case study examples from the sector.

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    Employers Skill Survey: Case Study - Local and Central Government

    Tamkin P, Hirsh W, Hillage J | Aug 2000 | Department for Education and Employment

    The Secretary of State for Education and Employment established the Skills Task Force to assist him in developing a National Skills Agenda. An important part of this remit was to provide evidence on the nature, extent and pattern of skill needs and shortages, and their likely future development. A substantial amount of the evidence came from a major programme of new research which looked at the extent, causes and implications of skill deficiencies. This is one of nine reports, with case study examples from the sector.

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    Free, Fair and Efficient? Open internal job advertising

    Hirsh W, Pollard E, Tamkin P | Jul 2000 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Many major UK employers moved during the 1990s to more open internal job markets. These give the job of filling internal vacancies to the line manager (who 'owns' the vacancy) and employees who will see the job advertised and apply for it. This report looks at how this change has been working in practice in both private and public sectors, examines the dilemmas and offers a model of how to balance key tensions.

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    Measuring Soft Outcomes and Distance Travelled: A Review of Current Practice

    Dewson S, Eccles J, Tackey N D, Jackson A | Jul 2000 | Department for Education and Employment

    Monitoring systems for employment programmes targeting unemployed people have traditionally focused on 'hard', quantitative outcomes such as the numbers going into jobs or gaining qualifications. However, it is often both unlikely and inappropriate for projects to expect to achieve 'hard' outcomes from target groups that are facing multiple barriers to employment. IES was commissioned to look at the use of 'soft', qualitative outcomes on projects funded by the European Social Fund (ESF).

  • HR Shared Services and the Realignment of HR

    Reilly P | Jun 2000 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Shared services is an increasingly common organisational response to creating more efficient service delivery. This report is an in-depth look at the issues based on interviews with a number of organisations. They see that costs can be reduced through the economies of scale from centralisation of services. Organisations have found benefit in this structure, but there are design issues that must first be tackled.

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    Graduate Salaries and Vacancies 2000 Half Yearly Review

    Barber L, Regan J | Jun 2000 | Association of Graduate Recruiters

    This Half Yearly Review, published by the Association of Graduate Recruiters for their members, replaces the earlier series of AGR Summer Updates. The review includes key findings on starting salaries, recruitment, shortfalls, retention, work experience and sponsorship, and recruitment techniques. This publication is no longer available.

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    Modern Apprenticeships and National Traineeships: Skills, Utilisation and Progression

    Kodz J, Tackey N D, Pollard E, Dench S, Tyers C, Dewson S | Jun 2000 | Department for Education and Employment

    This is the report of a study to explore outcomes and progression from Modern Apprenticeships and National Traineeships. The main aims were to gain a better understanding about: the range of possibilities open to young people after they have completed an MA or NTr; the skills that employers want from their young apprentices and how they utilise those skills; the extent to which there is an inter-relationship between the work-based route and possible progression to higher qualifications and/or higher education; and existing good practice which has wider application and could be replicated across industries or organisations.

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    Workplace Consultation on Health and Safety

    Hillage J, Kersley B, Bates P, Rick J | May 2000 | Health and Safety Executive

    The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reviewed the regulations on health and safety consultation and representation arrangements. To support the review it commissioned IES to examine: awareness about the requirements for consultation on health and safety among employers, safety representatives and employees; the process of consultation; the forms of consultation about health and safety in the absence of trade union appointed/elected employee representatives; the impact of consultation and representation on employers' approaches to the management of health and safety; and the extent to which employers do not consult employees and why.

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    Learning from Employee Development Schemes

    Lee C | May 2000 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This brief has been produced following interest expressed by IES members in the subject of employee development schemes. The increasing popularity and diversity of employee development initiatives appears to have generated a demand for a review and clarification of the current state of play in this area. This brief provides such a review by evaluating the available literature including examples of company practice.