Projects and case studies

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  • Attitudes and Rewards: finding out with IES

    IES helped the Architects Registration Board to carry out their first ever all-staff attitude survey, as well as reviewing the competitiveness and appropriateness of their current rewards package. The survey involved a written questionnaire and...

  • Evaluation of Risk Management in Construction

    A programme of work led by the Health and Safety Executive’s Construction Division has sought to bring about improvements in risk management by developing solutions in partnership with all relevant elements of the industry supply chain. In this...

  • Working Lives and Patterns of Veterinary Surgeons and Nurses

    IES ran two surveys on behalf of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. These surveys, launched in January 2010, were to find out more about the working lives and working patterns of veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses. They also explored...

  • Development for NHS Non-Executive Directors

    IES was asked to evaluate a pilot development programme that the NHS Institute is running for non-executive directors (NEDs) in the NHS. We surveyed participants and carried out telephone interviews with selected NEDs and their chairs, and...

  • Care Quality Commission

    IES assisted the newly formed Care Quality Commission to consider as part of its new regulatory strategy how workforce issues should best be considered and assessed. The project involved comparisons with the approach and methods employed in other...

  • Achieving World Class HR

    In a bold initiative, 63 NHS organisations in the North West collaborated in a project 'Towards World Class HR'. Following early involvement, IES was asked to provide further research and consultancy support. It is important that these...

  • Evaluation of the Advanced Network Prototypes (ANP)

    The Advanced Network Prototypes (ANPs) are part of a new adult advancement and careers service for England, as described in this Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills: http://www.dius.gov.uk/press/documents/5203-1%20DIUS%20Prospectus...

  • Council Succession and Talent Management Strategy

    IES worked with Birmingham City Council on implementation of its succession and talent management strategy. Birmingham is the largest city council in Europe and has already shown itself to be innovative in deploying the skills of its staff during...

  • Climate Change and the Green Economy

    IES was commissioned by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin, to co-ordinate an international comparative survey about government and social partner policies, initiatives, actions and tools that...

  • Health Benefits of Post-compulsory Education, Training and Lifelong Learning

    In partnership with University College London, IES undertook a literature review on the health benefits of post-compulsory education, training and lifelong learning that will feed into the Department of Health's Post 2010 Review of Health...