Publications

An evaluation of the first three years of the National Leadership Centre (NLC), a centre set up to support the development of public sector senior leaders.

Researchers and Members from The Henley Forum and IES worked in collaboration to conduct the underpinning research and to develop these change tools for teams.

David Pendleton's slides from IES Annual Conference 2018: HR's role in creating organisation agility: becoming change-smart in a fast-moving world, 11 October, 2018.

With organisations being encouraged to embrace 'agile', this IES paper considers the challenges of large-scale change, and how organisations can become both change-ready and change-capable, in order to thrive in today's fast-paced environment.

This briefing paper, produced by IES on behalf of NHS Employers, offers guidance to HR and senior leaders in the NHS on how line managers can relate to their direct reports in an engaging, motivating manner.

A study commissioned by RSSB and led by IES has found face-to-face and e-learning training to be equally effective methods for training line managers in supporting staff with mental health problems.

Handout from IES HR workshop 'Getting the most from performance and development conversations', 17 May 2018.

Gareth Jones' slides from IES HR Directors' Retreat 2018, 'Managing across the generations', May 2018.

This paper, the first in the IES 'Perspectives on HR 2018' series, takes a critical look at the widespread exhortation that managers should have more frequent and more effective conversations with employees about their performance, skills and learning, potential and career development.

This is the third report in the series 'Facing into Change'. This report examines the success of Culture Call as a social movement at Immigration Enforcement.