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  An Ageing Workforce: the Employer's Perspective

  Barnes H, Smeaton D, Taylor R | Sep 2009 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This study assesses the range of schemes introduced to prevent early exit (whether voluntary or involuntary) and to facilitate the employment of staff to pension age and beyond. The project was designed to explore how effectively and comprehensively different types of employer (eg by size and sector) are responding to workforce ageing.

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  Business Case for the NHS Staff Survey

  Robinson D, Hayday S, Mercer M | Jul 2009 | Department of Health

  A series of information and guidance resources produced to help NHS organisations and staff understand the benefits of conducting and participating in the NHS staff survey, and to improve services for patients.

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  Is well-being still important at work?

  Employers’ views on recession, the new fit note and priorities for the year ahead

  Tyers C, Martin R | Jul 2009 | Institute for Employment Studies

  While the economy was booming, so was a huge industry based around helping employers to promote health and well-being at work. The business climate has clearly changed. In tough times, will employers feel this is one issue too many to worry about? This paper explores employers' attitudes to the new fit note and their top priorities in the health and well-being area.

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  Learning to be Healthier

  The role of continued education and training in tackling health inequalities

  Hillage J, Savage J, Lucy D | Jun 2009 | University College London

  This paper concentrates on adults and their participation in learning activities from formal work-based qualifications to informal community-based activities. This paper helped inform the first phase of the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England Post 2010 (Marmot Review).

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  Employee Engagement: A review of current thinking

  Robertson-Smith G, Markwick C | May 2009 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report brings clarity to the debate. Based on a systematic review of the literature on employee engagement and synthesising current thinking and evidence.

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  Financial Well-being in the Workplace

  Cox A, Hooker H, Markwick C, Reilly P | Feb 2009 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report explores the relationship between financial well-being and employee performance at work. It incorporates one of the first surveys of employee financial well-being in the UK.

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  Organisational Responses to the HSE Management Standards for Work-related Stress

  Progress of the Sector Implementation Plan Phase 1

  Tyers C, Broughton A, Denvir A, Wilson S, O'Regan S | Feb 2009 | Health and Safety Executive

  Working to reduce the causes of work-related stress is a key area for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). This research was designed to evaluate a particular aspect of this work, the Management Standards for work-related stress, Sector Implementation Plan Phase 1 (or SIP1). This report provides an overview of the progress of SIP1 and draws together a range of qualitative data, including the experiences of organisations participating in SIP1, from the perspective of managers and staff working in those organisations, and the experiences of HSE and Acas staff supporting participating organisations.

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  Managing Stress and Sickness Absence

  Progress of the Sector Implementation Plan Phase 2

  Broughton A, Tyers C, Wilson S, O’Regan S | Feb 2009 | Health and Safety Executive

  This report reflects research that evaluates the HSE’s Sector Implementation Plan Phase 2 initiative, which aimed to help organisations manage stress and absence. It explores the effectiveness of the intervention in influencing procedures for managing work-related stress and sickness absence in organisations in the HSE’s target sectors. It also examines organisations’ existing policies and procedures in sickness absence management and stress management practices.

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  Employee Engagement: What is the Relationship with Reward Management?

  Reilly P, Brown D | Dec 2008 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This paper (published as ‘Reward and Engagement’, in WorldatWork Journal, November 2008) sets out the relationship between reward and employee engagement as a valid and powerful area for future research and practice in reward management. It considers what employee engagement really means and why it is important (primarily because of the potentially powerful influence on organisation performance). The paper presents a review of research evidence on the complex relationship between reward and engagement, and provides guidelines for practising a more engagement-focused approach.

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  Irish and Non-Irish National Construction Workers

  Research on differences in approach to health and safety at work

  Sinclair A, Hill D, Tyers C | Nov 2008 | Health and Safety Authority (Ireland)

  This research examines the root cause(s) of the high proportion of accidents and fatalities involving non-Irish national workers in the Irish construction sector (as evidenced by statistics from the Central Statistics Office). The results were used to inform future Health & Safety Authority (Ireland) campaigns, training and other initiatives.