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  Motivating Key People

  Dilys Robinson | Mar 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

  Is your organisation losing its key people? Do you know why, and what might have persuaded them to stay? Are you confident that you can identify your key people and explain what makes them key? Do you know what motivates them, and why they might be looking elsewhere for job satisfaction? This paper aims to help you answer these questions and profiles different kinds of key people, for a practical and strategic approach.

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  Workplace Health Connect: January 2007 Progress Report

  Tyers C with Gifford J, Gordon-Dseagu V, Lucy D, Usher T, Wilson S | Feb 2007 | Health and Safety Executive

  Workplace Health Connect (WHC) was a confidential service designed to give free, practical advice on workplace health, safety and return to work issues, to smaller businesses (with 5 to 250 workers) in England and Wales. This progress report was commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to evaluate the first eight months of the service. This publication is no longer available.

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  Mental Health and Work

  Sinclair A, O'Regan S | Jan 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report reviews the literature on mental health issues at work and the interventions available to tackle them, in order to provide some guidance to help employers deal with the issues within their own companies. This report outlines the benefits of taking a more positive approach to tackling mental health issues, going beyond complying with legislation, towards promoting mental well-being at work.

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  Creating a Well Workforce

  A case study

  Alice Sinclair | Jan 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

  To what extent is it employers' responsibility to look after their employees? What is the best approach to take and what benefits are they likely to see? This report seeks to answer these questions by presenting a case study of one organisation currently involved in health promotion activities. British Gas Business, part of Centrica, has been running a series of activities to promote health and well-being amongst its workforce for a number of years.

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  Danger: UK at Work!

  Cowling M, Sinclair A | Jan 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

  With the Lords ruling allowing employees to sue their bosses for negligence if they are subject to violence or harassment at work, IES questioned whether UK employers were facing a potential glut of litigation in the courts from distressed employees. Our evidence showed that the UK had a very poor record in comparison to most core EU countries on violence and intimidation in the workplace, although it had cleaned up its act to a degree since the very violent 1990s.

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  Still at Work?

  An Empirical Test of Competing Theories of the Long Hours Culture

  Cowling M | Jan 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

  In this study we use a large-scale European worker survey to test the validity of several competing hypotheses of why people work long hours. Our results show that there is a labour/quality of leisure trade-off for women, but not for men. Other key determinants of long working hours are industry sector, occupational status, gender and job security proxied by employment contracts.

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  The survival and growth of 'adolescent' high-tech firms in Germany and the UK, 1997-2003

  Cowling M, Murray G, Fryges H, Licht G | Dec 2006 | Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society

  This report documents over a twelve year period (1991-2003) the continued fortunes of 600 independent New Technology-based Firms (NTBFs) which were founded in Germany or the UK between 1987 and 1996. The findings on these firms, often known as 'high-tech start-ups', had significant implications for policy makers in the complementary areas of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

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  Early Intervention Following Trauma

  a controlled longitudinal study at Royal Mail Group

  Rick J, O'Regan S, Kinder A | Oct 2006 | Institute for Employment Studies

  The British Occupational Health Research Foundation (BOHRF) commissioned this research to investigate safe and effective trauma management practices within organisations. It includes evidence on the effectiveness of specific mechanisms for the provision of support for organisations whose employees experience serious incidents at work.

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  Well-being and Call Centres

  Akroyd K, Gordon-Dseagu V, Fairhurst P | Sep 2006 | Institute for Employment Studies

  The number of people working in call centres within the UK has been increasing dramatically in recent years. At the same time, there has been a growing awareness that the work can be stressful and repetitive with little individual discretion. This report seeks to understand why, and in what ways, call centre employment can reduce employees' well-being. It also details practices and research findings that suggest ways to positively influence the well-being of workers.

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  Organisational Justice

  Baldwin S | Sep 2006 | Institute for Employment Studies

  The term 'organisational justice' refers to the extent to which employees perceive workplace procedures, interactions and outcomes to be fair in nature. These perceptions can influence attitudes and behaviour for good or ill, in turn having a positive or negative impact on employee performance and the organisation's success.