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JobsPlus is a voluntary community-led, hyperlocal employment support programme designed to help people in social housing communities find work. This partnership paper presents the findings from the JobsPlus pilot evaluation which relate to working with local partners, summarising the wide-spread benefits of this approach.
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These top tips have been developed as part of the Labour Market Evidence programme, a partnership with Learning and Work institute. They share practical lessons on designing, delivering and evaluating local work and health programmes. They are designed for local and regional policy, delivery, data and evaluation teams, and senior decision makers.
Generational differences and how they play out in the workplace have become a major area of interest to organisations and catalysed articles in the HR and broader business press and much commentary from consultancy organisations. The thrust of many of these articles is that such generational differences are fuelling difficulties in the workplace as different attitudes clash.
‘Values’ are all around us, especially these days in relation to employing organisations and behaviour at work. Corporate websites often proclaim ‘Our Values’ although many of them look pretty similar. Values sometimes also appear in recruitment information and other people management processes. Being seen to ‘Live the Values’ is a modern requirement for getting what you want, such as your performance bonus, or promotion.
Peter Reilly's presentation slides from IES HR Network event 'Performance management, change at last?', 22 March 2016
Peter Reilly's presentation slides from IES HR Network event 'Performance management, change at last?', 22 March 2016.
This document is a summary of ORGANISER: a behavioural approach to influencing organisations. It was commissioned by a cross-Government group and has been designed to support better policy making.
ORGANISER is a behavioural approach to influencing organisations. It was commissioned by a cross-Government group and has been designed to support better policy making.
This is a summary of a rapid evidence assessment for the Department of Energy and Climate Change, carried out to understand the generalisable/common behavioural factors which explain organisational behaviours and influence organisational decision-making and change and, in particular, those influences that do not centre on fiscal incentives or penalties, or direct means of regulation such as inspections or reporting requirements.
This rapid evidence assessment for the Department of Energy and Climate Change was carried out to understand the generalisable/common behavioural factors which explain organisational behaviours and influence organisational decision-making and change and, in particular, those influences that do not centre on fiscal incentives or penalties, or direct means of regulation such as inspections or reporting requirements.
The findings of this research for Centrepoint enables them to offer constructive advice on how new policies on youth employment should be implemented to ensure they make a meaningful contribution towards helping the hardest to reach enter sustained employment.
IES was commissioned to provide Greek and Cypriot national reports for this publication, produced by Ecorys for the European Commission. This study sought to consolidate the evidence base regarding the diversity of the teaching workforce – based on a migrant and/or minority background – across the EU28.
