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As people live for longer and the State Pension age rises, understanding how working lives can be extended in ways which are both sustainable and rewarding has become an increasingly important issue for individuals, employers and policy makers. This study examined how people in their 60s successfully reshaped work to extend their career, on terms which suited their changing needs and priorities.
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The former Department for Business and Trade commissioned this research which aims to inform policy decisions to improve job security, workplace practice and employer awareness of their responsibilities towards pregnant women and parents in the workplace.
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.’
The UK higher education funding bodies, which own the National Student Survey, commissioned NatCen, the University of London’s Institute of Education, and the Institute for Employment Studies to review the current purposes of the NSS and how effectively it meets them, and to make recommendations for the survey’s future shape.
This presentation was presented at the 4th European Mentoring and Coaching Research Conference, 26-27 June 2014 in Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France. The research papers were published in the Book of Conference Proceedings from 4th EMCC Research Conference, Lindall P and Megginson D (eds), by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).
IES carried out a review of academic workforce planning for Universitas 21's HR Group, covering issues affecting workforce planning in academia; a description of workforce planning and talent management; and a consideration of workforce planning practice in U21 institutions.
This report analyses the labour market situation of young people in Europe, focusing in particular on the school-to-work transition, in terms of the amount of time it takes to start the first job after education, while also monitoring the more general transition to adulthood, the age at which young people leave the parental home. It also investigates the tenacity of many young people who against the odds continue to be employed during the crisis, as well as charting their transitions from temporary to permanent contracts.
The Labour Market Story is an overarching narrative paper that summarises employment and skills in the UK, and four thematic briefing papers. This paper assesses how skills are used in the workplace. It considers whether employer demand for skills is of sufficient quality and quantity to effectively utilise the skills available and move businesses up the value chain. It considers approaches to management and skills use at work, and suggests ways of raising employer demand for skills.
The Labour Market Story is an overarching narrative paper that summarises employment and skills in the UK, and four thematic briefing papers. This paper covers the supply of skills and mismatches between supply and demand for skills. It provides an analysis of the stock of skills in the labour market and identifies skills gaps, shortages, under-use and mismatches in an increasingly polarised labour market.
The Labour Market Story provides an up to date assessment of the state of the UK labour market and how it is performing relative to our international competitors. It is intended to inform future skills investment and policy to deliver a more effective skills system and alignment of public and private investment in skills.
This presentation was presented at the 4th European Mentoring and Coaching Research Conference, 26-27 June 2014 in Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France. The research papers were published in the Book of Conference Proceedings from 4th EMCC Research Conference, Lindall P and Megginson D (eds), by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).
