How HR and senior NHS leaders can support employee engagement: New IES paper
Strategies to support line managers in driving employee engagement are identified in a new IES paper written on behalf of NHS Employers.
Evaluation of the NHS Innovation Accelerator
Annette Cox examines IES research evaluating the NHS Innovation Accelerator, which aims to facilitate innovation in the NHS.
A big juggle: what can employers and policymakers do to support working carers?
Sally Wilson offers insight on support for working carers, drawing on findings from IES' evaluation of the Carers in Employment project, on behalf of the Social Care Institute for Excellence.
Returning to work after having a child: how families make decisions
Reflections on IES research on behalf of the Department for Education considering how families make decisions on returning to work and childcare responsibilities.
IES response to the Department of Health and Social Care’s Prevention Vision
Our response to the announcement of the Department of Health and Social Care’s Prevention Vision, which aims to put prevention at the heart of the UK's health.
2018 events calendar announced
Book your place for our HR workshops, conferences and network events throughout 2018 in London and Brighton, UK. Our calendar features events on gender pay gap reporting, mental wellbeing, talent and performance management, employee engagement and much more.
New research to identify employer practice that enables career progression for disadvantaged workers
The research aims to identify effective employer practice that enables people who experience barriers to advancing in the labour market to achieve career progression.
HR teams key to building a business case for employee financial wellbeing, research finds
A new paper shows that, despite growing interest in employee financial wellbeing, there remains a lag in employers taking action in this area – and that human resources departments are key to building a business case for support.
How can working carers be supported effectively? A new IES evaluation
New IES evaluation report identifies what employers and policymakers can do to support carers to balance work and care. The report evaluates the success of the government-funded Carers in Employment (CiE) project.
Segmenting the UK’s self-employed workforce
Andrea Broughton writes in Employment Studies on recent research for the Centre for Research on Self-Employment. In offering a segmentation of the self-employed workforce, the research helps to shed a light on the great heterogeneity in this section of the UK's workforce.