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  • From financial to clinical? Perceptions and conversations in NHS boardrooms

    Carter A, Sigala M, Robertson-Smith G, Hayday S | May 2011 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Board effectiveness is a hot topic and particularly scalding in two sectors. Firstly in financial services following the failure of bank boards to change the culture of large bonus payments; and secondly in the NHS where widespread criticism has been levelled at trust boards in the wake of several 'scandals' due to failure of clinical care quality. This report presents the findings of the IES programme evaluation study and in doing so sheds light on issues of wider interest to CEOs, chairs and board development specialists in all sectors about the engagement, governance and leadership of their boards.

  • Access to Work Related Training

    Johnson C, Sissons P, Oakley J, Dewson S, Levesley T | May 2011 | Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    The 2006 Leitch Review of Skills recommended the creation of a new integrated employment and skills service (HM Treasury, December 2006). Since then the welfare system has undergone reform to help meet this objective and the Integrated Employment and Skills (IES) trials, introduced in 2008 and ending in August 2010, were a key element. The main components of the IES trials were the co-location of careers services and Jobcentre Plus; skills screening and referral by Jobcentre Plus advisers; Skills Health Check interviews and Skills Action Plans delivered by nextstep2; and work-focused skills provision.

  • Identifying Claimants’ Needs

    Research into the Capability of Jobcentre Plus Advisers

    Bellis A, Sigala M, Dewson S | May 2011 | Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    The identification of skills and skills needs is a feature of government employment services delivered through Work-Focused Interviews (WFIs) and conducted by Jobcentre Plus (JCP) Personal Advisers (PAs). This research aimed to: explore how ‘skills need’ is defined by JCP PAs; examine how claimants’ skills needs are identified by JCP PAs; and build an understanding of how the identification of skills can be embedded within the JCP offer.

  • Employment and Support Allowance: Findings from a follow-up survey with customers

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

    This report presents the findings of a follow-up telephone survey with 1,842 people who took part in an earlier, baseline face-to-face survey of people claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)1 who had consented to be re-contacted. It was carried out by Ipsos MORI between July and September 2010.

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    SMEs in the crisis: Employment, industrial relations and local partnership

    Broughton, A | May 2011 | European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

    This report looks at the role that social dialogue and local networks play in addressing the negative consequences of the crisis, particularly job losses, and especially how they can be used to help to maintain employment and develop job creation. It looks at established networks and also determines whether any new networks have been created to help manage the consequences of the crisis.

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    Evaluating Management and Leadership Development: New Ideas and Practical Approaches

    Key research findings

    Hirsh W, Tamkin P, Garrow V, Burgoyne J | May 2011 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This paper presents the key learning points from an IES HR Network project on the evaluation of management and leadership development. This project was undertaken in response to interest from the Network members, who find the evaluation of management learning interventions an important area, but one in which good practice is not so easy to find.

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    Second phase evaluation of the introduction of Assistant Practitioners in Imaging Services in Scotland

    Final report to NES

    Miller L, Price R, Hicks B, Higgins T | May 2011 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This report sets out the findings from the second round evaluation of the impact of introducing Assistant Practitioners into Diagnostic Radiography services in NHS Scotland. The training programme for the Assistant Practitioners had been introduced as a result of a scoping exercise undertaken by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) in 2004 which had found a lack of appropriate educational opportunities and pathways for support workers.

  • Evaluation of the London City Strategy ESOL Pilot: final report

    Bellis A, Sigala M, Oakley J | May 2011 | Department for Work and Pensions

    This report presents findings from research carried out as part of the evaluation of the London City Strategy Pathfinder English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Pilot. The research was commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The two-year ESOL Pilot was designed to demonstrate how work-focused ESOL training provision can support access to sustainable employment for people who speak English as an additional language. The main target group was parents with ESOL needs who were in receipt of benefits or tax credits.

  • Study of School Gates Employment Support Initiative

    Marangozov R, Dewson S | Apr 2011 | DWP

    This report presents qualitative findings from the study of the School Gates Employment Initiative. This mostly involved qualitative research in 13 of the 25 pilot areas which included interviews with school heads, Regional Development Agency ...

  • Understanding the behaviour and decision making of employees in conflicts and disputes at work

    Lucy D, Broughton A | Apr 2011 | Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)

    This report reviews the literature on the factors that may influence the behaviour of employees who are involved in a conflict or dispute at work. The aim was to inform the debate about how to encourage parties to resolve such problems earlier and more informally rather than through employment tribunals.