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  • ORGANISER: A behavioural approach for influencing organisations - Summary

    Fell D, Giorgi S | Mar 2016 | Cabinet Office

    This document is a summary of ORGANISER: a behavioural approach to influencing organisations. It was commissioned by a cross-Government group and has been designed to support better policy making.

  • ORGANISER: A behavioural approach for influencing organisations

    Fell D, Giorgi S | Mar 2016 | Cabinet Office

    ORGANISER is a behavioural approach to influencing organisations. It was commissioned by a cross-Government group and has been designed to support better policy making.

  • Understanding the Behavioural Drivers of Organisational Decision-Making: Executive Summary

    Mar 2016 | Cabinet Office

    This is a summary of a rapid evidence assessment for the Department of Energy and Climate Change, carried out to understand the generalisable/common behavioural factors which explain organisational behaviours and influence organisational decision-making and change and, in particular, those influences that do not centre on fiscal incentives or penalties, or direct means of regulation such as inspections or reporting requirements.

  • Understanding the Behavioural Drivers of Organisational Decision-Making

    Rapid Evidence Assessment

    Wilson S, Sonderegger S, Buzzeo J | Mar 2016 | Cabinet Office

    This rapid evidence assessment for the Department of Energy and Climate Change was carried out to understand the generalisable/common behavioural factors which explain organisational behaviours and influence organisational decision-making and change and, in particular, those influences that do not centre on fiscal incentives or penalties, or direct means of regulation such as inspections or reporting requirements.

  • Investigating and improving the HR and OD capability in shared councils

    Brown D, Reilly P, Varney S | Feb 2016 | Local Government Association (LGA)

    This report summarises the findings from a major study undertaken by IES for the Local Government Association (LGA), which researched and investigated HR and OD capability in shared councils, in order to help to improve the contribution which the functions and policies in these fields make to the success of such shared arrangements.

  • Thoughts for the day: IES Perspectives on HR 2016

    Feb 2016 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This compilation of bite-sized essays by leading thinkers confronts and expands on existing thinking, plans, and practices in HR and employment. It will help HR leaders think about, plan for, and deal with these ‘known and unknown unknowns’, challenging modern fads, reinforcing some long-standing truths and offering original and practical insights.

  • Infographic: Organisation Design: 5 challenges and 10 tips

    Varney S | Jan 2016 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Infographic summarising Sharon Varney's challenges and top tips for organisations design, as published in her HR Essentials guide to the subject.

  • Assistant Practitioners in the NHS in England

    Miller L, Williams J, Marvell R, Tassinari A | May 2015 | Skills for Health

    This report examines the use of Assistant Practitioners in the NHS in England, explores the benefits of their use and the barriers to their further implementation, and also identifies ways in which Skills for Health can support their further introduction.

  • Leveraging coaching for organisational change

    A paper from 'HR in a disordered world: IES Perspectives on HR 2015'

    Carter A | Mar 2015 | Institute for Employment Studies

    In this paper, we place the emphasis on how we can help individuals adapt to, support, and lead change better. The evidence is that using coaching to accelerate skills development, help understand change better and work with teams to adapt to change, can help organisations unstick themselves and offset the all too common inertia that means too much change is attempted and too little achieved.

  • UKVI: Facing into Change

    Garrow V | Mar 2015 | Civil Service Organisational Development and Design

    This report is the second in the series following the work of the Organisation Development & Design Expert Service, which works across the Civil Service to support sustainable complex change. This new report is in the form of an evaluative case story focusing solely on an appreciative inquiry (AI) initiative in UK Visas and Immigration. It describes the AI process and early outcomes and the initiative is evaluated against a social movement framework.