To offer real insight HR teams must progress towards ‘predictive’ analytics
Developing HR’s analytics capability to offer predictive insights is an important challenge with which HR teams need to engage, according to a new paper by IES.
Mindfulness works in the workplace
This paper from IES explores what mindfulness is, potential benefits for organisations and their employees, and offers guidelines for creating a more mindful workplace, plus a helpful list of resources.
Strategic human resource management replaced by tactical cost and risk management
In response to these uncertain times, we have published a collection of articles urging organisations to consider both general and strategic HR issues, as well as specific challenges.
Organisation Design is no longer just for specialists
All HR professionals need to understand the basics of organisation design, according to the author of a new guide published by the Institute for Employment Studies.
Improving HR and OD capability in shared councils
Forty-three district councils in England now share a chief executive with one or more other council, and display various levels of service integration. The Local Government Association has asked IES to carry out a piece of research focusing on the experiences of ten council partnerships.
HR must find new ways to tackle change
Our Perspectives on HR report for 2015 urges employers to consider how more established ways of managing change can be replaced by evolving fluid approaches.