Projects and case studies

  • Seeing the Link Between HR and Organisational Performance

    This work for the National Health Service Improvement and Innovation Agency evaluated research on the functional contribution of HR/OD and associated professionals to organisational performance, as well as the impact of more general people...

  • Developing HR Leaders

    IES engaged in a six-month development programme for the HR leadership team of a large local council. This had six coaching sessions combined with three workshops designed to help the team identify their vision for the future of HR, their personal...

  • NICE Management of Long-term Sickness

    IES supported the work of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the development of guidance on the management of long-term sickness and incapacity for employers and primary care services. A systematic review was...

  • Evaluation of Coaching in the NHS

    The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (NHS Institute) commissioned IES to carry out an over-arching evaluation of coaching intervention to support leadership development across the NHS. Some evaluation had been carried out of the...

  • Going into HE: Interaction of Elements of Financial Support and Other Factors

    How does the complex mix of government and university financial support affect the choices of prospective students who now face top-up fees of £3,000 per year? Is this support understood? Does it allay financial worries? Are decisions constrained...

  • UK Skills: Key Themes, Policy Issues and Priorities

    The Sector Skills Development Agency commissioned a partnership of IES and the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion to conduct a review of UK employment and skills policies with a view to highlighting key themes, policy issues and priorities...

  • Lessons from the HSE Stress Management Pilot

    IES examined, for the Health & Safety Executive, progress made by employers in six key sectors with regard to their participation in the HSE’s Stress Management Pilot. The Stress Management Pilot was initiated in June 2005 and involved...

  • Evaluation of Healthy Workplace Solutions

    The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) commissioned IES to assess the effectiveness of specific elements of its Healthy Workplace Solutions intervention. This was designed to encourage a larger number of organisations in seven target sectors to...

  • Black and Ethnic Minority Apprenticeship Experiences

    SummitSkills, the sector skills council for building and engineering, has identified in its Action Plan the need for more research to help them in their efforts to increase the diversity of the workforce in the building services engineering sector...

  • Quality Assurance for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

    IES provided quality assurance services to the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. The Foundation publishes a range of information updates and larger comparative studies on its three Observatory websites,...