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This report presents local governments' evidence needs on supporting people to enter and remain in employment, and proposes evidence reviews to address these.
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This report builds on the interim findings published in September 2025 to provide evidence on whether the JobsPlus model can be adapted to the UK context and effectively implemented to improve employment outcomes.
This report examines the evidence and issues relating to team working and team pay, with particular reference to white-collar employees. Here is a discussion of what constitutes a team, and how performance pay schemes have been adopted or adapted for teams. It concludes with the issues employers should address when developing team working and pay.
This report is a synthesis of the literature on training evaluation, combined with evidence from a number of employers who are actually undertaking some evaluation activities. It describes a cyclical model to evaluate training, with particular emphasis laid on the identification of training needs and research tools that can be used to measure the impact of training on the organisation. This publication is no longer available.
This report, based on case study research of leaders in this field, gives practitioners clear descriptions of what Personal Development Plans really are, how they fit in with other HR processes, and how they are working in practice. The eight named case studies include TSB, BP Chemicals, Marks and Spencer and Abbey National. The report also raises some wider policy issues and choices in using PDPs as part of a strategy of self-development.
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This research examines employers’ involvement with the youth labour market. It explores ways in which policy makers can influence employers’ decisions to recruit young people or old. This publication is no longer available.
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Workstart was a wage subsidy programme, targeted at the very long-term unemployed. It provided employers with a subsidy for one year of £2,340 for each long term unemployed person they took on. Four pilot schemes were set up in Spring 1993, in Tyneside, Devon and Cornwall, East Kent and South West London, to test the effectiveness of this approach. This report presents the findings of an evaluation of these pilots, conducted in August 1994 among 399 participating employers in the four pilot areas. This publication is no longer available.
Each year the IES Graduate Review presented the latest information on higher education and the graduate recruitment market. The 1994 review looked at the characteristics of the student population and the way in which their experience of higher education was changing. This publication is no longer available.
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