Publications

This paper identifies ten of the most common mistakes made by employers as they seek to formulate and implement reward strategy.

This study focuses on the benefits of learning both to the individual and to the organisation. If the returns to learning were clearly understood by employers and others, would more learning accrue? This publication is no longer available.

Corporate training and payment systems based on skills and competencies are becoming more widespread among UK organisations. This study, commissioned by the Equal Opportunities Commission, explores the gender implications of the increasing tendency of organisations to make payments to staff on the basis of an assessment of individual skills or level of training, and on an assessment of individual competencies.

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The pilot study for this report was originally commissioned by the Employment Department under the Skills Review Programme. Its aim was to assess policy measures which may be taken to influence the supply, quality and skill levels of managers. This publication is no longer available.

This publication is no longer available. This report, commissioned by the Employment Department, looks at employers’ views of education business links. It examines why and how employers get involved with education and what sort of activities they prefer. It draws out implications for employers, education links agencies and policy bodies, and concludes that the supply of links from the employer side is not a significant constraint in developing a higher level of activity.

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 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.