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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.
The equality, diversity and inclusion grants were given to Further Education (FE) colleges and training organisations to develop the capacity of the sector to meet the public sector Equality Duty. This evaluation was commissioned by the Skills Funding Agency. It assesses the impact and value for money of the grants, and includes good practice eight case studies.
The equality, diversity and inclusion grants were given to Further Education (FE) colleges and training organisations to develop the capacity of the sector to meet the public sector Equality Duty. This evaluation was commissioned by the Skills Funding Agency. It assessed the impact and value for money of the grants, and included good practice eight case studies.
This joint international study surveyed 644 industry professionals from 34 countries, who either had received or were currently receiving coaching. The infographic offers some of the key findings.
Using a novel analytical framework for understanding how procurement shapes employment, this report presents the results of six case studies of outsourced cleaning services and draws out key implications for improving policy and practice. Each case study is reported in the form of a narrative that highlights the specific characteristics of procurement practices and employment conditions.
This report explores the engaging manager as a developer, drawing on in-depth discussions with the managers themselves, their own managers, and their teams. We also draw on findings from our earlier research into Managers as Developers of Others.
At Barnett Hill on 19th and 20th June 2014, participants of the HR Directors' Retreat were treated to a range of perspectives on innovation. Dilys Robinson has written a full and interesting account of each presentation.
Infographic from WIPRO for the Big Data network event on 17 July 2014.
An infographic from IBM on Big Data, shared with HR Network members at the Big Data network event on 17 July 2014.
This session will take the participants through how The Maersk Group is working with different kind of descriptive, linkage & predictive HR analytics from a theoretical & methodological perspective and illustrate this with practical concrete examples.
Wikipedia definition: ‘Big Data is a blanket term for any collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications.’
