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  • Top Employers for Working Families - Benchmarking Report 2011

    Swan J, Morris L, Mercer M and Jackson S | Aug 2011 | Working Families

    In terms of engagement and motivation, the evidence shows that well-managed flexibility elicits higher performance and the potential business benefits of flexible working on productivity, financial performance, quality, employee attraction, retention, commitment and reduced absence are well documented. Many organisations have deployed flexible working in the recession with great success. This benchmark aims to provide data and a crucial insight into what is currently working in practice, what needs to work, and the direction of future organisational focus.

  • Disability and Skills in a Changing Economy

    Meager N, Higgins T | Aug 2011 | UK Commission for Equality and Skills (UKCES)

    The UK Commission developed a series of Briefing Papers with a focus on equality and skills in a changing economy. The aim was to inform and enable connected thinking about how to enable opportunity in the labour market through skills. Each paper provided commentary and analysis for an equality group or theme: disability and skills in a changing economy; gender and skills in a changing economy; low skills and social disadvantage in a changing economy; older people and skills in a changing economy and spatial inequality and skills in a changing economy.

  • What do researchers do? Career paths of doctoral graduates 2011

    Pollard E, Metcalfe J, Hodges V | Aug 2011 | The Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC) Limited

    To further explore how highly-skilled doctoral graduates contribute to UK society, culture and economy, this report highlights the employment pathways of researchers within and between six distinct occupational clusters; describing the stability, mobility and progression of researcher careers. This study illustrates that doctoral research training is a good foundation for a wide variety of occupations and demonstrates the flexibility of researchers who take advantage of a diversity of employment opportunities.

  • Evaluation of the Duty to Manage Asbestos

    Sinclair A, Tyers C, Hunt W, Oakley J, Pearmain D, Savage J, Bust P, Gibb A | Aug 2011 | Health and Safety Executive (HSE)

    This research evaluates the impact of the Duty to Manage asbestos in non-domestic premises. It aims to: establish levels of compliance with the Duty; establish the extent to which compliance by dutyholders has brought about improved work practices among maintenance workers; re-assess the assumptions made in the Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) which accompanied the introduction of the Regulations about costs/benefits of the duty; identify/investigate factors influencing dutyholders' compliance with the Duty and examine any barriers to compliance; and determine the proportion of non-domestic and domestic rented premises which contain asbestos and the rate at which this is being removed.

  • Skills for Self-Employment

    Meager N, Martin R, Carta E | Jul 2011 | UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES)

    The study provides an invaluable resource to inform policy in this area covering business start-up, support for unemployed people to become self-employed, enterprise education, and business growth. This small scale, explorative research study looks at the hitherto relatively under-researched question of the role of skills and training in the development of self-employment. It draws on a literature review, data analysis from the Labour Force Survey, and a series of expert interviews.

  • Evaluation of National Skills Academies - Synthesis Report

    Johnson C, Hillage J, Miller L, Bellis A, Oakley J, Sumption F, Tu T, Ginnis S, Gosling R | Jul 2011 | Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    In 2008 the Institute for Employment Studies and Ipsos MORI were commissioned to conduct a two-year evaluation of National Skills Academies (NSAs) by the former Learning and Skills Council (LSC), now the Skills Funding Agency. NSAs were first established from 2006 and were rolled out incrementally over five rounds of development, under a competitive bidding process. This report synthesises evidence gathered over both years of the evaluation.

  • First survey of Get Connected Grant Recipients

    Miller L | Jun 2011 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This interim report sets out the findings from a survey undertaken of all care homes and domiciliary care organisations that had introduced changes to information and communications technology funded through the first round of the Get Connected grant scheme (funded through the Department of Health and managed by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, SCIE). It gives examples of the ways in which technology is being used to improve quality of life for residents in care and nursing homes and for individuals receiving domiciliary care services.

  • Unsuccessful Employment and Support Allowance claims - qualitative research

    Barnes H, Oakley J, Stevens H, Sissons P | Jun 2011 | Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

    This qualitative study, commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), was designed to provide a detailed understanding, from a customer perspective, of the views and subsequent experiences of people who apply for Employment and Support Allowance but whose claim is unsuccessful – either because their claim was closed by Jobcentre Plus or withdrawn by the customer before it was assessed, or because the customer was found fit for work and not entitled to ESA.

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    European Restructuring Monitor Quarterly - 2011, Issue 2

    Hurley J, Riso S, Salvatore L, Rinawi M, Broughton A | Jun 2011 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

    The EU economy continued to grow over the last quarter with more positive data in particular from core economies. Problems of sovereign debt management however persisted in several eurozone Member States and negative economic news from other developed economies tended to more than mitigate any positive momentum arising from the dynamism of the emerging market economies.

  • Exploring Employer Behaviour in Relation to Investors in People

    Gloster R, Higgins T, Cox A | Jun 2011 | UK Commission for Employment and Skills

    Exploring Employer Behaviour in Relation to Investors in People (IIP) attempts to develop a deeper understanding of the IIP product and service offering from the perspective of employers. The research comprised a series of in-depth, qualitative interviews with employers who had enjoyed continued success with the Standard, as well as those employers who havd either committed or accredited to the Standard, but who had subsequently withdrawn from the IIP customer journey.