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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.

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  Modelling the cost effectiveness of interventions, strategies, programmes and policies to reduce the number of employees on sickness absence

  Revised Report

  Pilgrim H, Carroll C, Rick J, Jagger N, Hillage J | Sep 2008 | National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence

  The guidance provides recommendations for good practice that are based on the best available evidence of effectiveness and cost effectiveness. This report aims to assess the cost-effectiveness of a range of interventions to return people to work following long term sickness absence. It accompanies the report of the evidence review of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of these interventions.

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  What Works in Delivering Improved Health and Safety Outcomes

  A Review of the Existing Evidence

  Cox A, O'Regan S, Denvir A, Broughton A, Pearmain D, Tyers C, Hillage J | Aug 2008 | Health and Safety Executive

  This report consists of a literature review on 'what works' in delivering improved health and safety outcomes, using data published since 2002. It is supplemented by an analysis of how HSE uses and generates research-based evidence, drawing on data from interviews conducted with HSE staff.

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  The RCVS Survey of the Veterinary Nursing Profession 2008

  The findings of a survey of veterinary nurses conducted by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons

  Robinson D, Munro M | Jul 2008 | Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS)

  The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) 2008 survey of the veterinary nursing profession was launched in January 2008. Questionnaires were posted to 11,156 people on the veterinary nurse database. This report analyses the findings from the survey. It reports on the following aspects of the veterinary nursing profession: personal profile, status, working practices, position, pay, career plans, continuing professional development and attitudes.

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  Mental Health and Employment

  Sainsbury R, Irvine A, Aston J, Wilson S, Williams C, Sinclair A (prepared in association with Social Policy Research Unit) | Jun 2008 | Department for Work and Pensions

  The study was designed to address a gap in knowledge about the circumstances that lead people to claim Incapacity Benefit because of a mental health condition and what factors contribute to people with mental health conditions returning to work after a period on Incapacity Benefit. The study also explored employers' understanding and experience of dealing with mental health conditions in the workplace.

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  Going the Extra Mile

  The relationship between reward and employee engagement

  Suff P, Reilly P | Jun 2008 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This paper demonstrates how a well designed reward package can encourage employees to 'go the extra mile'. It uses real-life case studies to illustrate how a total reward strategy (encompassing both financial as well as non-financial factors) can accommodate the different wants and needs that determine someone's level of engagement.

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  The Safe Learner (interim report)

  The impact of individual differences and workplace environment on attitudes to health and safety training

  Miller L, Jagger N | Jun 2008 | Institute for Employment Studies

  The main intention underlying introduction of the Safe Learner blueprint is to influence learners' safety behaviours in work as well as in the learning situation, by increasing their health and safety knowledge and awareness of the actions they should take. This study extends earlier research by IES by evaluating the actions and behavioiurs of learners in work, and in the longer term in general. Since many other factors apart from quality of health and safety training have been demonstrated to influence health and safety at the level of work unit and organisation, this study also assessed the extent to which learners' own attitudes, workplace safety culture, role overload and individual differences serve to reinforce or moderate the impact of the Safe Learner training.

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  Quality of Working Life in the UK

  Denvir A, Hillage J, Cox A, Sinclair A, Pearmain D | Apr 2008 | Sector Skills Development Agency

  This report investigates the elements of the job, workplace and relationships that have a specific bearing on an employee's Quality of Working Life (QWL), and the connections these may ultimately have with employee satisfaction and organisational performance.

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  Responses to the Evidence Consultation on Long-term Sickness and Incapacity

  Hillage J, Rick J, Pilgrim H | Apr 2008 | National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence

  The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) was asked by the Department of Health to develop guidance for primary care services and employers on the management of long-term sickness and incapacity. This guidance provides recommendations for good practice that are based on the best available evidence of effectiveness and cost effectiveness.