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  Employee Engagement

  Robinson D | Nov 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This opinion paper explores how IES's research has defined engagement, created an engagement measure and provided an engagement diagnostic tool. It identifies the factors that drive engagement and provides general lessons about how to manage employee engagement in your organisation.

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  Engagement: The Continuing Story

  Robinson D, Hooker H, Hayday S | Sep 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

  Our first research report, The Drivers of Employee Engagement, led to a definition of engagement, an engagement measure to be used within attitude surveys, and a diagnostic tool to identify the drivers of engagement. This deeper investigation tests our engagement measure and drivers tool in different settings and sectors.

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  Work and Enterprise Panel 2

  Business Survey

  Cowling M (IES), Bevan S (Work Foundation) | Sep 2007 | Health and Safety Executive

  This report provided information on UK business attitudes, intentions and performance relating to health and safety in the workplace in 2007. In addition, it provided robust empirical evidence concerning linkages and impacts of health and safety strategy and expenditure on an array of hard and soft performance measures of intermediate and final business performance.

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  Corporate Warming

  Managing the workforce environment

  Mar 2007 | Adecco

  This report by Loudhouse for Adecco, with advisory input from IES, investigates attitudes and opinions towards the workplace today, looking at employee issues, such as motivation and workforce attrition, whilst also addressing the role of workforce management and human resources at a strategic level.

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  Motivating Key People

  Dilys Robinson | Mar 2007 | Institute for Employment Studies

  Is your organisation losing its key people? Do you know why, and what might have persuaded them to stay? Are you confident that you can identify your key people and explain what makes them key? Do you know what motivates them, and why they might be looking elsewhere for job satisfaction? This paper aims to help you answer these questions and profiles different kinds of key people, for a practical and strategic approach.

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  The survival and growth of 'adolescent' high-tech firms in Germany and the UK, 1997-2003

  Cowling M, Murray G, Fryges H, Licht G | Dec 2006 | Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society

  This report documents over a twelve year period (1991-2003) the continued fortunes of 600 independent New Technology-based Firms (NTBFs) which were founded in Germany or the UK between 1987 and 1996. The findings on these firms, often known as 'high-tech start-ups', had significant implications for policy makers in the complementary areas of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

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  Organisational Justice

  Baldwin S | Sep 2006 | Institute for Employment Studies

  The term 'organisational justice' refers to the extent to which employees perceive workplace procedures, interactions and outcomes to be fair in nature. These perceptions can influence attitudes and behaviour for good or ill, in turn having a positive or negative impact on employee performance and the organisation's success.

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  The UK Veterinary Profession in 2006

  The Findings of a Survey of the Profession Conducted by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons

  Robinson D, Hooker H | May 2006 | Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons

  This report presents the results of the 2006 Survey of the Profession, carried out on behalf of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS). The 2006 survey is the fourth survey carried out by the RCVS. The membership was also surveyed in 1998, 2000 and 2002. Throughout this report, where possible and appropriate, results are compared with those of previous surveys. The aim of these membership surveys is to provide RCVS, and other interested parties, with an evidence-based view of the veterinary profession and the changes taking place within it.

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  Working together

  Embedding Good Employment in Public Services

  Apr 2006 | CBI

  Good employment goes hand in hand with good service standards. For most public service users, contact with an employee is the service they receive. Employment practices that help employees excel are therefore vital to delivering world-class public services. The companies included in this report all saw good employment practice as a priority and sought to create environments where employees felt motivated, valued and involved. This report was based on research by IES. This publication is no longer available.

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  Employee Involvement

  Information, Consultation and Discretion

  Gifford J, Neathey F, Loukas G | Nov 2005 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report presents five in-depth case studies of organisations with established and progressive employee involvement practices, and relates them to existing literature on the subject.