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  • Employee Engagement: What is the Relationship with Reward Management?

    Reilly P, Brown D | Dec 2008 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This paper (published as ‘Reward and Engagement’, in WorldatWork Journal, November 2008) sets out the relationship between reward and employee engagement as a valid and powerful area for future research and practice in reward management. It considers what employee engagement really means and why it is important (primarily because of the potentially powerful influence on organisation performance). The paper presents a review of research evidence on the complex relationship between reward and engagement, and provides guidelines for practising a more engagement-focused approach.

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    The Impact of Entrepreneurship Training and Small Business Experience on Future Entrepreneurial Activity in the UK

    Cowling M | Dec 2008 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This paper considers three basic questions: Who gets enterprise training or work experience in small businesses? Does this make a difference to future entrepreneurial activity? And, does this improve business outcomes?

  • Longitudinal Evaluation of Training and Development for Radiographers' Extended Roles

    Miller L (IES), Price R, Vosper M (University of Hertfordshire) | Nov 2008 | Institute for Employment Studies

    In 2008 Skills for Health funded the Institute for Employment Studies, in partnership with the University of Hertfordshire, to undertake a survey of training for extended role activities undertaken by radiographers.

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    Irish and Non-Irish National Construction Workers

    Research on differences in approach to health and safety at work

    Sinclair A, Hill D, Tyers C | Nov 2008 | Health and Safety Authority (Ireland)

    This research examines the root cause(s) of the high proportion of accidents and fatalities involving non-Irish national workers in the Irish construction sector (as evidenced by statistics from the Central Statistics Office). The results were used to inform future Health & Safety Authority (Ireland) campaigns, training and other initiatives.

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    Where Next for HRM?

    Rediscovering the heart and soul of people management

    Marchington M | Nov 2008 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This working paper argues that HR needs to review the focus of its contribution to ensure that it retains distinctiveness and so adds real value. The author reasons that HRM needs to reconsider its roots in people management and its unique selling point, which is based in a broader and more pluralistic definition of the subject. This paper was commissioned by IES as part of its Visiting Fellows scheme, marking the Institute's 40th anniversary.

  • Activity Agreements Evaluation

    Synthesis Report

    Hillage J, Johnson C, Newton B (IES), Maquire S (Centre for Education and Industry), Tanner E, Purdon S (National Centre for Social Research) | Oct 2008 | Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)

    Activity Agreements were designed for young people aged between 16 and 17 not in employment education and training (NEET) for at least 20 consecutive weeks. By signing an agreement the young person agrees to take part in a series of activities (designed to help them move towards an employment, education or training outcome) in exchange for an allowance. The agreements were piloted in eight areas between April 2006 and March 2008.

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    Britain and the European Social Model: Capitalism Against Capitalism?

    Hyman R | Oct 2008 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This paper outlines some of the key arguments which suggest that Britain and the rest of Europe – or at least, continental western Europe – represent incompatible varieties of capitalism, and explores this further by considering some of the meanings of that elusive concept, the ‘European social model’. The paper looks at the complex interconnection between economic integration and social (or labour market) regulation within the EU.

  • Helping People who are Out Of Work Because of Ill-Health to Return to Work

    A Literature and Programme Review for the Improving Health, Increasing Employment in Birmingham and Solihull Project Board

    Francis R, Barnes H, Lucy D, Savage J, Oakley J | Sep 2008 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This literature and programme review was commissioned by the Improving Health, Increasing Employment Project Board of Birmingham and Solihull (IHIE) to help plan future programmes for existing Incapacity Benefit claimants.

  • IES Annual Review 2008

    Sep 2008 | Institute for Employment Studies

    IES Annual Review 2008

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    Modelling the cost effectiveness of interventions, strategies, programmes and policies to reduce the number of employees on sickness absence

    Revised Report

    Pilgrim H, Carroll C, Rick J, Jagger N, Hillage J | Sep 2008 | National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence

    The guidance provides recommendations for good practice that are based on the best available evidence of effectiveness and cost effectiveness. This report aims to assess the cost-effectiveness of a range of interventions to return people to work following long term sickness absence. It accompanies the report of the evidence review of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of these interventions.