Publications
We author and publish a range of resources to keep you up to date with the latest developments in employment, labour market and human resource policy and practice.
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Vulnerable Youth & Gender in Europe
Gökşen F, Filiztekin A, Smith M, Çelik C, Öker I, Kuz S | Mar 2015 | CROME, University of BrightonThis report containing IES research looks at gender and class roles in the European labour market.
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Restructuring in the public sector
ERM Annual Report 2014
Celikel-Esser F, Hurley J, Storrie D, Gerogiannis E, Broughton A | Mar 2015 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound)The European Restructuring Monitor’s annual report for 2014 explores the rapid transformation of the public sector in Europe since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008.
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Ethical dilemmas in HR practice
A paper from 'HR in a disordered world: IES Perspectives on HR 2015'
Carter A | Mar 2015 | Institute for Employment StudiesThis paper raises an interesting issue of the role of HR in ethics, is it HR’s role to ensure ethical behaviour or is it the role of every employee?
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HR business partners: yes please or no thanks?
A paper from 'HR in a disordered world: IES Perspectives on HR 2015'
Reilly P | Mar 2015 | Institute for Employment StudiesBusiness partners are one of the Ulrich model’s most endemic manifestations, seen as integral to the running of business units and providing strategic advice and support to maximise performance. However, all too often various pressures on business partners result in a failure to be sufficiently strategic, the tendency to be drawn into low added value activities and becoming too associated with the business unit in which they sit and less willing to toe the HR line. The popularity of the role can also make it harder to find people of the right calibre. These are partly problems of role definition but also of line interface; devolution to the line has proved harder than anticipated. As a result, there is a real tension between strategic contribution and operational support which organisations have not yet resolved.
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Beyond competence: shifting perspectives of capability
A paper from 'HR in a disordered world: IES Perspectives on HR 2015'
Tamkin P | Mar 2015 | Institute for Employment StudiesThis review of competencies argues that our tendency in the UK to atomise (whilst Germany for example favours an holistic interpretation) leaves knowledge isolated, fixed in conception and unable to be summonsed to help with new situations. The effects include dispiriting appraisals, narrow recruitments, rote learning, and the downplaying of theoretical knowledge to the broader detriment of agility (back to change management again) and the ability to deal with novel and complex situations.
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The role of the line in talent management
A paper from 'HR in a disordered world: IES Perspectives on HR 2015'
Hirsh W | Mar 2015 | Institute for Employment StudiesHR needs to consider how talent management lands with those who are tasked with bringing it to life – how line managers are key players and how they can feel unsupported, isolated and unskilled in fulfilling their role. Considering how the line can be enabled to succeed should be the focus of HR intervention.
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Innovation: turning good ideas into reality
A paper from 'HR in a disordered world: IES Perspectives on HR 2015'
Smith M | Mar 2015 | Institute for Employment StudiesIn this paper we explore the importance of the individual, exploring the challenges of engaging employees in innovation, all too often limited by individuals having too little time to enable ideas to come to life or feeling as if they are not ‘allowed’ to have ideas that make a difference. The term innovation can be off-putting too; all too often people feel that only those in senior or specialist roles get to be creative. Some tried and tested ways of encouraging people to play, of giving them permission to innovate and in creating the structured support of colleagues to do so, can make a huge difference.
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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 StudiesIn 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.
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Organisation design in a VUCA world
A paper from 'HR in a disordered world: IES Perspectives on HR 2015'
Garrow V, Varney S | Mar 2015 | Institute for Employment StudiesIn this paper, we highlight the importance of organisations having one foot in the past through exploiting current capabilities whilst also stepping into the future by designing organisations able to explore opportunities. This difficult balancing act is supported by engagement and yet engagement is always threatened by change. More established ways of managing change are replaced by evolving fluid approaches, enabled by what is shared across organisations, to promote collaboration, to simplify what is being faced wherever possible, and to mobilise the workforce.
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Organisational change: finding your way as you journey into the unknown
A paper from 'HR in a disordered world: IES Perspectives on HR 2015'
Varney S | Mar 2015 | Institute for Employment StudiesIn this paper, we explore how each change now overlays other preceding or concurrent changes to form a dynamic pattern of mutual interference. More traditional conceptions of change management can be left behind by this constant overlay of impacts so how are organisations and the people in them, able to adapt and thrive?
