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Taking change as its overarching theme, this collection of essays looks at the year ahead, exploring issues in HR and OD, including: building OD capability; employee engagement: what next?; influencing people to behave in different ways; the talent management journey: a four stage approach; innovating work; delivering strategy through flexible working; getting the HR/line balance in people management right; and cost control versus pay progression.
This report describes the developments in industrial relations and working conditions in 2011 in the 27 EU Member States and Norway. It also considers EU-level industrial relations and working conditions with a focus on the economic situation and responses to it.
IES Annual Review 2012
Feedback received during the evaluation of the Get Connected grant programme indicated that while care organisations working with people with dementia had hoped to use information and communication technologies purchased with these grants to improve the quality of life of their clients, these aims had been frustrated by the lack of guidance available. In February 2012, SCIE commissioned the Institute for Employment Studies to undertake research to inform development of the guide, and Sara Dunn Associates to write the guide. This report describes the research and piloting process undertaken.
In April 2010, the UK Commission took over strategic ownership of the Investors in People (IiP) Standard. This report seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how smaller organisations which commit to IiP for the first time perceive and work with the Standard, what the impact is on organisational performance, and the roles played by IiP specialists and centres.
This research focused on the risks faced by high-skilled workers of becoming unemployed or being forced to accept less qualified jobs and the ways to encourage the conversion of precarious work into work with rights.
Tthe National Apprenticeship Service and the Skills Funding Agency commissioned a good practice evaluation of the Diversity in Apprenticeship pilots. This research was conducted in two stages in autumn 2011 and spring 2012. This report synthesises the emerging evidence about effective and sustainable practices.
Whilst it may seem self evident that there would be a positive relationship between receiving coaching and individual employee psychological health and well-being, there is little evidence from the research to support this contention. This study aims to address this gap in the literature and explore whether coachees experience any impact on their well-being following a coaching intervention at work and whether this is sustained over time. This is a detailed report, available only to IES HR Network members.
