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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 paper is second in a series on coaching effectiveness. A total of 644 industry professionals who were current or former coachees responded to a questionnaire. In this paper we identify barriers faced by coachees during the period of their coaching and suggest a categorisation framework: difficulties with coach; organisational culture; personal issues; coaching relationship and coaching model/process.
The Labour Market Story is an overarching narrative paper that summarises employment and skills in the UK, and four thematic briefing papers. This paper analyses current and recent performance of the UK economy and its position internationally, drivers of growth, and the contribution of skills to growth. It explores changes in the labour market and identifies challenges and opportunities for the UK.
The Labour Market Story is an overarching narrative paper that summarises employment and skills in the UK, and four thematic briefing papers. This paper draws on recent quantitative and qualitative research to provide an analysis of future employment trends and associated skills requirements. It considers potential drivers of skills demand in the future, including globalisation, economic trends, science and technology, environmental change, and changing societal values.
The National Student Survey (NSS) has run since 2004. The UK higher education funding bodies, which own the survey, commissioned research to review the purposes of the NSS and how effectively it meets them, and to make recommendations for the survey’s future shape. This set of four reports comprises a summary report, literature review and the responses to surveys and discussions with students and stakeholders.
This study clarified factors that make coaching effective and should be included in the coaching process. Six hundred and forty four industry professionals who had been through or were currently going through the coaching process responded to a questionnaire. The findings focus on the main components involved in the coaching process: the coach, the coachee, the organisation, the coaching process and the relationship between coach and coachee.
Maggie Smith gives an overview of this well-received session about openness, what it is, how it can be encouraged, and what the barriers can be.
The Youth Contract offers additional support for disengaged 16-17 year olds to move into education, training or work with training. This working paper summarises the key findings of an evaluation study on the impacts and social net benefits of the early stages of the Youth Contract, carried out on behalf of the Department for Education by the Institute for Employment Studies.
This evaluation covered the experiences of early entrants to this Youth Contract component. It showed that some common approaches had emerged as part of delivery and demonstrated the importance of individualised support through keyworkers in assisting young people to re-engage.
This report contains the tables from the two surveys of Local Authorities in England that were undertaken as part of the evaluation of the Youth Contract for 16-17 year olds not in education, employment or training. Key findings from the surveys are contained within the synthesis report.
This report examines four scenarios of social partner cooperation in the hairdressing sector, aimed at improving the quality of work and employment.
