Projects

IES has been commissioned to provide CIPD with a guide on workforce planning for HR practitioners using illustrations from case study examples. In the context of the current labour market tightness and uncertainties (including Brexit and potential immigration controls) the guide will aim to advise organisations how they might plan in these circumstances. For further content on the impact of Brexit follow the IES Brexit Observatory.

Rachel Marangozov took up an expert role for the European Commission’s ESF Thematic Learning Network on Migrants. The aim of the role was to facilitate and strengthen transnational exchange and cooperation between the ESF managing and implementing bodies and other strategic stakeholders.

IES was commissioned by the London Borough of Lewisham to research the reasons behind the council’s success in achieving gender parity in the make-up of its senior posts and highlight how the glass ceiling impact on senior executives has been overcome in this case. The research was published as: The Power of Parity: A study of how Lewisham Council achieved gender equality at senior levels, the learning and implications

In 2017, IES undertook a review of the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration Review Body’s (DDRB) current pay comparability methodology. The review was commissioned by the Office of Manpower Economics (OME) and was the first of its kind since 2008. The findings were published in August 2017. The review assessed whether the current pay comparability methodology remained fit for purpose; recommended any necessary updating, changes and improvements to the methodology; and offered recommendations on how its coverage could be extended into primary care doctors and dentists. The research involved interviews with 12 key stakeholders from relevant bodies including the GMC, BMA, BDA and NHS Employers; interviews with doctors and dentists themselves; and a literature review of relevant pay determination and comparability methods. This research was published as Review of DDRB Pay Comparability Methodologies: Final Report

Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) and Universities HR (UHR) jointly commissioned IES to devise and test a standard measure of employee engagement for the HE sector with two parts: work engagement and organisation engagement. This involved the creation of a 12-statement, two-part indicator; testing the indicator via a pilot of two different HEIs; and analysing the results to demonstrate firstly reliability, and secondly the relationship of work and organisation engagement to positive organisational outcomes. The results showed that work engagement and organisation engagement emerged as two clear and separate factors, and confirmed the anecdotal belief that academic/research staff have higher levels of work engagement than corporate/professional/support services staff, and conversely that corporate/professional/support services staff have higher levels of organisation engagement than academic/research staff. They also demonstrated that work engagement is on the whole more important, as a predictor of positive organisational outcomes than organisation engagement. The report is available (to UCEA/UHR members only) on UCEA and UHR websites.

IES Senior Research Fellow Sally Wilson was an expert adviser to a study modelling the impact of worklessness. She provided expertise on welfare to work interventions and policy background. The model developed will allow local decision makers to understand the health and financial impacts of getting people back to work. It can be customised in terms of local population, return to work metrics, mental health condition prevalence, and other variables.

IES was commissioned by the Office of Manpower Economics to conduct research to support the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) in its major review of the judicial salary structure. We compared and grouped judicial roles to help the SSRB to map them onto the correct points in the judicial salary scale.

This study aims to identify and scope existing large scale datasets/sources which capture the school to work transition from a range of perspectives, and then highlight those with the potential to support the work of The Careers & Enterprise Company.

IES has been commissioned to lead the consortium which is designing and delivering the health-led employment trial evaluation. This will contribute to the achievement of a strategic objective for the newly formed Department for Work and Pensions and Department of Health joint Work and Health Unit, building a strong evidence base of interventions that work best to help people with health conditions and disabilities get in, or stay in, work. The randomised controlled trial will deliver Individual Placement Support to people in the Sheffield City Region (SCR) and West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) to understand whether and how this leads them to a position where they can be in sustained employment. The evaluation will assess the impact of the trial and its cost effectiveness, as well as assess interim outcomes and the causal pathway to eventual impacts amongst participants, through process evaluation, based on theories of change. Taking part in the health-led trial? Visit the dedicated page

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) commissioned IES to undertake the 2017 survey of its members to provide indicators on the changing experience of working as a nurse in the UK.