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  Slides: Using ideas from neuroscience to stop change hurting so much

  Paul Fairhurst | Apr 2012 | Institute for Employment Studies

  Slides from Paul Fairhurst on 'Using ideas from neuroscience to stop change hurting so much' which he presented at the HR Network event 'Managing difficult change and developing your OD toolkit' on 19 April 2012.

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  Slides: Managing difficult change: developing your OD toolkit

  Introduction

  Valerie Garrow, Paul Fairhurst, Sharon Varney | Apr 2012 | Institute for Employment Studies

  Introductory slides from Valerie Garrow, Paul Fairhurst, and Sharon Varney (IES Associate) for the HR Network event on 'Managing difficult change: developing your OD toolkit' held on 19 April 2012.

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  IES Perspectives on the HR Year Ahead 2012

  Strength and opportunities

  Dec 2011 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report looks at opportunities for change, whilst ensuring your workforce and managers are in a strong position to embark on them.

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  Creating social networks for learning and sharing ideas

  Fairhurst P, Miller L | Oct 2011 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This paper discusses the potential for new technologies and social networking to facilitate new ways of learning. It presents key themes from research carried out for the NHS into establishing new social networks for knowledge and idea sharing, and also offers hints and tips for establishing a new online community.

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  Learning to swim, learning to fly?

  A career in organisational development

  Garrow V, Varney S | Mar 2011 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report examines how people make their way in Organisational Development (OD), what kinds of skills and experience they find most valuable and the routes they have taken to developing a top level career. We ask whether OD professionals are born or made. We asked practitioners what learning they would like to share with others wishing to develop a career in OD, and their advice is here in this report.

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  Measuring impact in health improvement

  An accessible guide for health practitioners

  Garrow V | Feb 2011 | Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA)

  This guide has been developed for practitioners working for councils and public health organisations evaluating the impact of a project or initiative. It will take you through the process of designing, implementing and disseminating an impact assessment and will also provide information on the range of tools and help that is available. It aims to be a practical guide, helping you to design and conduct effective and appropriate impact assessment.

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  IES Annual Review of the HR Year Ahead 2011

  From restructuring to rebuilding

  Dec 2010 | Institute for Employment Studies

  Two perspectives are addressed in this review of where HR is going in 2011 by thirteen of IES's HR researchers. In the first, we consider the recent experiences and research on restructuring organisations and the critical role of leadership in doing this successfully. In the second, we consider more specific ways in which organisations are rebuilding morale and performance in their workforce as they emerge from recession and cost cutting.

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  Better...Together

  A case study

  Garrow V | Sep 2010 | Health and Safety Executive

  Better...together is the story of a small internal team which championed the people and cultural aspects of change during and after HSE's move from a split headquarters in London (Rose Court) and Bootle to a single HQ in Bootle (Redgrave Court). Better...together has not been a 'culture change' programme as such; it hasn't re-examined corporate values for example but it was 'a good time to look at identity'. It has, therefore, played an important role in highlighting the importance of organisational culture at a time when HSE was about to undergo a significant period of change.

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  Women in Leadership: Time to Intervene?

  Robinson D, Hicks B | Aug 2010 | Institute for Employment Studies

  Several organisations that realise the importance of a diverse senior team, and are attempting to address inequality at this level, have asked IES to investigate what is going on: what are the barriers stopping women from getting to the top, are HR systems and processes inadvertently discriminatory, and what actions should organisations take? Although the majority of this client work has explored the career paths of women and the obstacles and enablers they have encountered, many of the findings can be applied across all under-represented employee groups.

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  Redesigning public sector HR functions

  Fairhurst P, Reilly P | Aug 2010 | Institute for Employment Studies

  There can be no doubt now that the public sector is going to have to find significant savings over the coming years. HR will have to both play its part in facilitating that process but also find its own new ways of working. This may not be painless but, as many are recognising, a crisis can often also be an opportunity to go back to first principles and make more radical changes to ensure that the service is truly fit for purpose.