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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.
In this paper, we explore how each change now overlays other preceding or concurrent changes to form a dynamic pattern of mutual interference. More traditional conceptions of change management can be left behind by this constant overlay of impacts so how are organisations and the people in them, able to adapt and thrive?
This report is the second in the series following the work of the Organisation Development & Design Expert Service, which works across the Civil Service to support sustainable complex change. This new report is in the form of an evaluative case story focusing solely on an appreciative inquiry (AI) initiative in UK Visas and Immigration. It describes the AI process and early outcomes and the initiative is evaluated against a social movement framework.
Debbie Jacksons presentation with speaker notes from IES HR Network event 'Shared parental leave', on 26 February 2015
Mary Mercer's slides from the IES HR Network event 'Shared parental leave', on 26 February 2015
Debbi Jackson's slides from the IES HR Network event 'Shared parental leave', on 26 February 2015
IES presents its annual Perspectives on HR publication, in which IES researchers and consultants offer their insights into the challenges of today's turbulent world for the HR function.
This study aimed to provide an up-to-date, comprehensive picture of the latest developments in policy measures regarding differential treatment of workers under 25 in the EU with a view to their access to the labour market.
In early 2014, the LGA Commissioned the IES to undertake an exploratory research piece on the possible direction for officer roles in council ‘regulatory services' – that is, environmental health, trading standards and licensing.
IES participated in this extensive study on costs and returns on investment in measures to improve the labour market situation of disabled people. Our particular focus was on estimating the impact of regulatory reform in the longer term, updating previous impact studies.
This third paper in our new series of HR Essentials highlights five key challenges of organisation design and offers ten practical tips to help HR professionals to navigate those challenges.
