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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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    Second phase evaluation of the introduction of Assistant Practitioners in Imaging Services in Scotland

    Final report to NES

    Miller L, Price R, Hicks B, Higgins T | May 2011 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This report sets out the findings from the second round evaluation of the impact of introducing Assistant Practitioners into Diagnostic Radiography services in NHS Scotland. The training programme for the Assistant Practitioners had been introduced as a result of a scoping exercise undertaken by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) in 2004 which had found a lack of appropriate educational opportunities and pathways for support workers.

  • 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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    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.

  • The HR Agenda for 2010

    Ten top trends as we come out of recession

    Garrow V (ed.) | Jan 2010 | Institute for Employment Studies

    The HR team at IES reflected on some of the priorities for organisations as they started to emerge from recession and looked to the future. In these short articles topic leaders provided insights that had emerged from recent consultancy and research practice across the public and private sector.

  • On Becoming an NHS Chief Executive

    Insights from those who are

    Barber L | Jan 2010 | NHS Yorkshire and the Humber

    The Institute for Employment Studies was commissioned by NHS Yorkshire and the Humber to undertake research into how chief executives in the region had made it to the top in the NHS. This is a 'hints and tips' guide from chief executives in the region gathered under useful themes. This publication is no longer available.

  • Career Paths of Chief Executives - Research report

    Barber L | Jan 2010 | NHS Yorkshire and the Humber

    IES was commissioned to undertake research into how chief executives in the Yorkshire and Humber region had made it to the top in the NHS. This is the report of the research itself. This report is no longer available.

  • Career Paths of Chief Executives - Personal journeys and reflections

    Barber L | Apr 2009 | NHS Yorkshire and the Humber

    IES was commissioned to undertake research into how chief executives in the Yorkshire and Humber region had made it to the top in the NHS. This document presents pen pictures of 21 chief executives in the region. This publication is no longer available.

  • Encouraging Women into Senior Management Positions

    How Coaching Can Help

    Broughton A, Miller L | Feb 2009 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This research examines the factors underlying women’s progress through organisational structures and the reasons why women in senior management positions in the USA and in Europe decide to accept or decline board-level jobs. We hope that the research will inform the debate in the US and worldwide, and illuminate the development of further coaching topics and strategies that might be needed to help greater numbers of women progress into board-level positions.

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    Talent Management: Practical issues in implementation

    Hirsh W | Jan 2009 | Institute for Employment Studies

    The term ‘talent management’ is clearly a big hit with HR people, but will the recent talent craze yield real business value? If talent management does help, it will do so by shifting our thinking and/or by helping us to act more effectively.