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    Crafting Futures: Appendices

    Hunt W, Ball L, Pollard E | May 2010 | Crafts Council

    This study explores the value of craft education to the economy through the experiences of craft graduates as they move from higher education into work.

  • Should I Stay, or Should I Go?

    Older employees' later life planning in a business context

    Strebler M, Baldwin S | May 2010 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Helping older employees plan their future is challenging at the best of times. In an economic downturn these challenges are even greater. This report explores case study research gathered from a broad range of organisations. We focussed on how - and whether - older employees proactively planned their future working life and retirement; what support their employer provided and what sort of conversations they were having and with whom.

  • The Brighton Factor Revisited

    Does it work and is it important?

    Pollard E, Hunt W, Sumption F, Cowling M, Millmore B | May 2010 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This second stage of the Brighton Factor research explored whether University of Sussex graduates’ expectations were met, how early careers developed in the local labour market, the factors that helped and hindered careers, and whether the city of Brighton and Hove continued to influence their decisions about where to live and work.

  • Crafting Futures

    A study of the early careers of crafts graduates from UK higher education institutions

    Hunt W, Ball L, Pollard E | May 2010 | Crafts Council

    This study explored the value of craft education to the economy through the experiences of craft graduates as they moved from higher education into work. The timing of the research, during the economic downturn, offered unique insights into the impact of recession on their working lives and the strategies they employed to continue to work towards their goals.

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    Setting up HR shared services in local government

    Reilly P | May 2010 | IDeA

    Through combining dispersed human resources' (HR) administrative activities, shared services can deliver cost and quality benefits for councils. This guide examines some of the key issues councils should consider when introducing HR shared services. It presents possible options, offers the big questions to ask – for councillors and senior managers – and provides some practical suggestions on where to start.

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    Anticipating and Managing Restructuring: Ireland

    Broughton A | May 2010 | International Labour Organization

    This national background paper examines restructuring developments in Ireland. It gives an overview of the general economic and labour market context of the country, in particular against the background of the economic crisis. The report includes data on redundancies, and the challenges that the rising level of redundancies pose, especially in sectors such as construction, which has been particularly hard hit by the recent recession.

  • Leading and Managing in Recession: same or different skills?

    Cox A, Fairhurst P, Hadjivassiliou K, Hirsh W, Jones K, Pullen C, Reid B, Tamkin P, Walker E | May 2010 | Learning and Skills Improvement Service

    In March 2010, the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) set out to investigate future leadership and management and skills needs during recession, and implications for its learning and development provision. The research was conducted by the Institute for Employment Studies in partnership with the Learning and Skills Network and The Work Foundation.

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    Large Scale Change - NHS Mobilisation

    Garrow V, Cox A, Higgins T | May 2010 | NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

    NHS Institute commissioned the Institute for Employment Studies to undertake work to understand how social movement theory could provide insights into how to reconnect the Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention message to the core values of staff and create a ‘contagious commitment’ to rapidly increasing quality and driving down costs. This report is structured around a visual summary of the social movement literature.

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    European Restructuring Monitor Quarterly - 2010, Issue 1

    Hurley J, Riso S, Salvatore L, Billingham D, Schulze-Marmeling S, Broughton A | May 2010 | European Monitoring Centre on Change

    Though no longer in recession, the EU economy remained fragile, with growth well below trend rates. Unemployment continued to rise, though at a slowing pace (it stood at 9.6% in the EU27 in February 2010).

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    Public/private sector sickness absence: the impossible divide

    Can the gap between public and private sector sickness absence levels ever be closed?

    Knott S, Hayday S | Apr 2010 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This article examines explanations for the differences between public and private sector performance when it comes to sickness absence levels and suggests that some simple changes in public sector policy and practice could make a very real difference, provided that the public sector follows the general public trend, selects the 'value' or 'basics' range of products, and makes the best use of 'well-worn clothes'.