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  Family-friendly Employment: the business case

  Bevan S, Dench S, Tamkin P, Cummings J | Sep 1999 | Department for Education and Employment

  An important theme in current and emerging government policy is the importance of practices that allow individuals to combine employment and caring responsibilities. These 'family-friendly' practices also have direct and measurable business benefits: reduced casual sickness absence, improved retention, productivity and recruitment, and improved morale and commitment. Recognising these benefits can help overcome the fears in small to medium sized enterprises that family-friendly policies are costly, impractical or a threat to stability. This publication is no longer available.

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  From People to Profits

  The HR link in the service-profit chain

  Barber L, Hayday S, Bevan S | May 1999 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report presents the results of the most detailed UK work yet to explore how employee attitudes and behaviour can improve customer retention and, as a consequence, company sales performance. It presents compelling data to demonstrate these links, highlights the 'Attitude Chain' model which underpins it, and highlights how other businesses can take this work forward in their own markets.

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  Reviewing Attendance in the NHS

  Causes of absence and discussion of management strategies

  Bevan S, Heron P | Feb 1999 | Health Education Authority

  IES carried out an evaluation of workplace health in the NHS in 1995 which collected data from employees in 14 NHS Trusts. Subsequent reanalysis of the data, coupled with a comprehensive review of the academic literature on sickness absence, has resulted in a series of findings about the common causes of sickness absence which lead, in turn, onto discussion about the management strategies most likely to reduce it.

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  The IES Annual Graduate Review, 1998-1999

  The Key Facts

  Pearson R, Perryman S, Connor H, Jagger N, Aston J | Dec 1998 | Institute for Employment Studies

  The IES Annual Graduate Review provides the latest information on trends and assessments of future prospects for the graduate labour market. It includes key facts, figures and commentary on the main changes influencing student demand, the changing characteristics of the student population, and graduates’ experiences in a more diverse labour market. This publication is no longer available.

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  Breaking the Long Hours Culture

  Kodz J, Kersley B, Strebler M T, O'Regan S | Nov 1998 | Institute for Employment Studies

  A high proportion of UK employees work more than ten hours over and above their contracted hours. This is not an occasional effort to cope with emergencies or peak periods, but rather a regular event. The European Community's Working Time Directive has focused our attention on the matter of long hours. The fundamental business issue is not how best to circumvent the directive. Rather, it is to understand the causes of long hours, note their consequences, and devise policies to ameliorate them.

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  Attendance Management

  a Review of Good Practice

  Bevan S, Hayday S | Nov 1998 | Institute for Employment Studies

  By the late 1990s it was estimated that sickness absence cost the UK economy £11 billion each year. With changes to the sick pay rules, and growing concern over workplace stress, many employers were seeking ways of managing attendance. This report looks at how this could be done, and reviews the policies of over 30 leading UK organisations to present a model of good practice. The report also highlights key international research findings on absence.

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  From Accidents to Assaults

  How organisational responses to traumatic incidents can prevent Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the workplace

  Rick J, Young K, Guppy A | Oct 1998 | Health and Safety Executive

  This, the second of two reports commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive, considers current understanding of trauma and the extent to which it can affect employees in a wide range of jobs. It presents findings from case studies in 17 organisations, covering a diverse range of occupations.

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  Workplace trauma and its management

  a review of the literature

  Rick J, Perryman S, Young K, Guppy A, Hillage J | Apr 1998 | Health and Safety Executive

  This report provides the findings from a major review of the research literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and trauma-related mental health. It examines the historical development of our understanding of trauma, and the current definitions available for PTSD. The organisational and legal implications of trauma are explored, as well as the data available on the scale and prevalence of trauma for different occupational groups.

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  Trust and Transition: Managing Today's Employment Relationship

  Herriot P, Hirsh W, Reilly P | Feb 1998 | John Wiley & Sons

  This book identifies the two key problems facing senior managers and HR directors: employees' feelings of mistrust and insecurity, and their effects on the employment relationship; and the speed of organisational change which requires employees to make continuous transitions. This book shows that the management of careers in organisations is still possible if career transitions are negotiated with employees, supported by management, and hence recreate trust.

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  Keeping the Best: A Practical Guide to Retaining Key Employees

  Bevan S, Barber L, Robinson D  | Oct 1997 | Institute for Employment Studies

  Rather than panic and throw money at the problem, it is important that employers adopt more considered and targeted approaches to keeping their best employees. This practical guide demonstrates that, through careful risk analysis and targeting of retention measures, losses of key people can be both predicted and prevented. The guide includes turnover costs checklist, retention risk analysis, and exit interview questionnaire.