Publications

The aim of this enquiry is to help identify areas of development in terms of human resource management/organisational development and work development activity for the NHS Institute and its stakeholders. Such activity clearly has a key role in developing a flexible, adaptable workforce that is capable of sustaining continuous service improvement.

In 2006, Acas commissioned a qualitative study exploring the experiences and views of employees who had been involved in sexual orientation and religion or belief employment tribunal cases. This document provides a summary of that research. An over-arching summary is presented followed by findings which draw out the particular experiences of the two groups of claimants.

This report by Loudhouse for Adecco, with advisory input from IES, investigates attitudes and opinions towards the workplace today, looking at employee issues, such as motivation and workforce attrition, whilst also addressing the role of workforce management and human resources at a strategic level.

Is your organisation losing its key people? Do you know why, and what might have persuaded them to stay? Are you confident that you can identify your key people and explain what makes them key? Do you know what motivates them, and why they might be looking elsewhere for job satisfaction? This paper aims to help you answer these questions and profiles different kinds of key people, for a practical and strategic approach.

In this paper we consider job-skills mismatches of those individuals fortunate enough to have jobs and question whether firms are failing to utilise the skills of their existing labour force. Further, we also consider whether firms are hiring workers not capable of fulfilling their job requirements without adequate training provision.

The Higher Education European Social Fund (HE ESF) Unit has been responsible for managing ESF projects for the HE Sector in England since 2001. This report provides a greater understanding of the social, economic and labour market impacts of HE ESF projects. It comprised four methodological elements: desk research; literature review; secondary data analysis of HE ESF project closure reports; and case study research.

This report explores organisations' awareness of and responses to the Disability Discrimination Act, looking particularly at issues relating to employment, provision of goods, facilities and services, public functions and private clubs. The research builds on a similar study undertaken in 2003, and is based on 2,000 telephone interviews and 50 case studies. A separate technical report outlining the methodological approach and the research design is available from the DWP.

Workplace Health Connect (WHC) was a confidential service designed to give free, practical advice on workplace health, safety and return to work issues, to smaller businesses (with 5 to 250 workers) in England and Wales. This progress report was commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to evaluate the first eight months of the service. This publication is no longer available.

This report investigates the ways in which firms have made organisational changes, including changes to systems of incentives and rewards, in response to any compression of pay differentials following the 2005 uprating of the National Minimum Wage (NMW).

This paper highlights the inadequacies of traditional approaches and points to new procedures that meet today's needs, in this important aspect of talent management. It also provides an example of where the proposed new approach has produced startling results which have provided high-quality assessment data at a fraction of the cost of traditional approaches.