Publications

Slides: Tackling chances, saving lives

Graham Bartlett's presentation slides from IES HR Network Annual HR Director's Retreat 'Swimming against the tide', 27 & 28 April 2016.

Slides: Engaging everyone in change - Involving staff in culture change

Hendrika Santer Bream's presentation slides from IES HR Network event 'High involvement change: from consultation to co-production', 7 April 2016.

Slides: Engaging everyone in change

Introduction

Dilys Robinson's presentation slides from IES HR Network event 'High involvement change: from consultation to co-production', 7 April 2016.

Ethical leadership

IES Perspectives on HR 2016

The headlines continue to suggest that poor behaviour from leaders remains a current issue. In fact there has been a regular drip-drip of media stories that suggest organisational leaders have been turning a blind eye to what is right in favour of what is profitable or expedient. The VW emission scandal is the latest in a very long line of eyebrow raising corporate misbehaviour.

Can values add value?

IES Perspectives on HR 2016

‘Values’ are all around us, especially these days in relation to employing organisations and behaviour at work. Corporate websites often proclaim ‘Our Values’ although many of them look pretty similar. Values sometimes also appear in recruitment information and other people management processes. Being seen to ‘Live the Values’ is a modern requirement for getting what you want, such as your performance bonus, or promotion.

From consultation to co-production: high-involvement change

IES Perspectives on HR 2016

High-involvement work practices have featured in management research and literature for decades but when it comes to organisational change, people still tend to feel 'done to'. This might be because change is often happening in crisis mode when things need to happen quickly and control is centralised. There is usually some form of consultation but little real involvement in the design and development of structures and processes that will impact people's working lives.

Swimming against the tide: getting whistleblowers on board

IES Perspectives on HR 2016

Peter Reilly highlights the practical, procedural difficulties of whistleblowing for HR, but ends with the deeper, worrying evidence that half of HR leaders are being forced to compromise on their principles and the stark challenge that ‘HR might like to start with acknowledging it has a moral purpose in the organisation and make that the basis for its contribution to difficult business decisions.’

Performance management, a tale of two practices?

IES Perspectives on HR 2016

Of all HR practices, performance management systems appear to be almost universally embedded in organisational best practice. One CIPD survey found that 95 per cent of organisations have appraisals (Sung and Ashton, 2005). Assuming that organisations behave rationally, we might expect that they use appraisals because they benefit the organisation.