Publications

The Council for Excellence in Management and Leadership (CEML) asked IES to help develop a scheme of national performance indicators to do with the development and utilisation of management and leadership capability, and the performance benefits arising from its application. The framework is designed to draw public attention to the issue of management and leadership capability within the UK, and to inform the review and development of policy. It contains recommendations and a bibliography.

This publication was authored by Helen Gray before she joined IES.

The Review identified a number of issues in school, further and higher education, as well as in the labour market for science and engineering skills, that needed to be addressed in order to secure a strong future supply of scientists and engineers in the UK. The recommendations set out in this report are designed to help secure a strong supply of people with science and engineering skills.

The Business Schools Advisory Group of the Council for Excellence in Management and Leadership was convened to examine the quality, relevance and accessibility of all forms of management and leadership education delivered by UK Business Schools, and to identify any gaps between what the Business Schools currently supply and what is needed.

This report presents the findings of a nationally representative telephone survey of 1,000 economically active people of working age (males 16-64, females 16-59), focusing on their levels of awareness and knowledge of employment rights and their exercise of those rights.

This report presents findings of research conducted with employers and service providers, which examined how they were responding to the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. Based on a telephone survey and in-depth case studies, the research explores responses to the Act in the areas of recruitment, employment, service provision, making adjustments for disabled customers/employees, and awareness of the Act and sources of advice and information. The research was conducted by researchers at SWA Consulting Ltd with Scantel International, and includes further analysis by the Institute for Employment Studies.

Many employers now recognise that work-life balance is a key issue and offer employees a range of flexible working options. Nevertheless, take-up of these options remains low. The perceived impact on career prospects, as well as a number of other factors, can be off-putting for employees. Individuals and their managers therefore need to be supported to get over some of the difficulties and barriers they experience to ensure work-life balance policies and practices work effectively.

This report presents findings of a survey conducted with 2,008 employers aimed at identifying and examining the barriers to employment which disabled people face. The study compares findings with earlier research conducted amongst employers, to chart transitions over time, and explores three key areas: the existence and nature of policies relating to the employment of disabled people; employers' practices with regard to disabled people in the workplace; and employers' awareness of and responses to government initiatives and legislation, in particular the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

This briefing attempts to disentangle the key trends about how work is changing from the rhetoric, and distil the hype to the essential truths. We spoke with leading HR managers about the changes they see in their organisations and the impact of technology on management and leadership. We looked at 'futures' studies, to make sense of what is being predicted for organisations and what this means for managers within them.

This article discusses productivity from several angles: how it is measured, the history of the concept, some 'productivity problems', the relationship of productivity to the various initiatives designed to improve organisational performance, and the role played by HR.