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Fair Pay: What do the Politicians and HR Directors want?
22 Apr 2015Duncan Brown comments on the forthcoming election manifestos with regard to pay, concluding that, with such all-party support for higher and 'fairer' pay, it is interesting to see that employers and their HR functions appear to be much less keen.
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Mary Parker Follett: an unsung heroine
16 Apr 2015Dilys Robinson introduces us to another unsung hero, Mary Parker Follett. First outlining Parker Follett's ideas, Dilys argues how her thinking applies to modern day people management and what we could learn from this great thinker from the past.
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Recent IES Publications
1 Apr 2015recent IES publications
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Recent IES HR news in brief
1 Apr 2015IES news in brief
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Duncan Brown returns to IES
1 Apr 2015Duncan Brown returns to IES
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Shared parental leave: what are you doing about it?
1 Apr 2015Shared Parental Leave (SPL) and Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) is a new way for parents to share statutory leave and pay on the birth of a child. It will be available for working parents whose baby is due on or after 5 April 2015, or who adopt a child on or after that date.
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Thinking about mindfulness?
1 Apr 2015Mindfulness techniques are being promoted in the management press as the answer to changing the way people think, feel and act in the workplace. The claims made are considerable and growing: that it reduces stress and sickness absence; re-energises employees and improves personal resilience; enhances an individual’s ability to cope with change and uncertainty; increases creative thinking; and increases socially responsible behaviour at work.
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The business case for leadership and management skills
1 Apr 2015Management and Leadership skills have been associated with a wide range of outcomes of importance – productivity, innovation, employee safety and wellbeing, and employee engagement for example.