Publications

This summary offers an overview of the full report, which aimed to help leaders in higher education as they address talent management in their own institutions.

This report aims to help leaders in higher education as they address talent management in their own institutions.

Professor Stephen Bevan's slides from IES webinar 'Are line managers damaging your employees' health?', 25 April 2017.

Annette Cox's presentation slides from IES HR workshop 'Talkin' 'bout my generation: Ageing and pensions', 23 March 2017.

Penny Tamkin, editor of the IES Perspectives on HR 2017 series of essays, offers her own take on the year ahead, considering new forms of work and the rise of the Uber and gig economies.

This IES HR Network paper builds on previous IES work on mindfulness and offers research on the implementation of Mindfulness-Based Interventions.

This study explores what we know of the link between management and leadership and organisational productivity. In particular, it focuses on some of key elements of the evidence base with regard to management practices, the relationship between management and leadership and innovation, and the role of managers and leaders in workplace practices and high performance working.

This study identifies key issues in retail sector productivity, future challenges and priorities for action by business leaders. To complement recent and parallel work being undertaken, it focusses on the challenges and opportunities presented by online retailing and using 'big data' on consumers to develop future retail propositions.

The headlines continue to suggest that poor behaviour from leaders remains a current issue. In fact there has been a regular drip-drip of media stories that suggest organisational leaders have been turning a blind eye to what is right in favour of what is profitable or expedient. The VW emission scandal is the latest in a very long line of eyebrow raising corporate misbehaviour.

This compilation of bite-sized essays by leading thinkers confronts and expands on existing thinking, plans, and practices in HR and employment. It will help HR leaders think about, plan for, and deal with these ‘known and unknown unknowns’, challenging modern fads, reinforcing some long-standing truths and offering original and practical insights.