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  • Intellectual Property Aspects of Socio-Economic Research

    Gnädig N, Knorpp K, Grosse Ruse H, Giannakoulis M | May 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Socio-economic research creates intellectual property and is itself based on intellectual property. The rules concerning intellectual property rights should always be kept in mind when conducting any kind of socio-economic research. The guidelines in this report should enable those concerned with socio-economic research to take an overview of the rights at stake, and how to take them into account.

  • Functional Map of a European Socio-Economic Research Project

    Schryvers E, Van Gyes G, Vanderbrande T | May 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    The RESPECT project involved the development of guidelines, or codes, in a number of separate areas: data protection, intellectual property rights, research ethics, professional issues and professional competencies. This part of the RESPECT project created a professional competency profile.

  • Data Protection Aspects Within the Framework of Socio-Economic Research

    Rosier K, Vereecken I | May 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Socio-economic research involves the collection and other further processing of personal data. The processing of personal data is regulated by law, and the researchers have therefore to comply with these legal requirements. These guidelines have been drafted taking into account Directive 95/46/CE and the national legislation of most of the current Member States of the European Union that implement it. They outline the general principles governing data protection, provide for key concept descriptions, and include a series of recommendations, allowing the researcher to take into consideration the various requirements in the field of data protection.

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    Overcoming Barriers to Adult Basic Skills in Sussex

    Bates P, Aston J | May 2004 | Sussex Learning and Skills Council

    This report uncovers the barriers to adult basic skills learning, such as issues of stigma and negative perceptions, practical barriers relating to health or childcare and cost, barriers experienced by providers (eg, funding and class sizes) and barriers to workplace learning. The report considers how, and to what extent, these barriers can be overcome and highlights elements of good practice.

  • South West Healthy Labour Market Review

    Williams M, Tackey N D | May 2004 | South West Regional Employment Forum

    The research was produced for the South West Regional Employment Forum. It presents the findings of an analysis of the health of the South West labour market on a range of labour market indicators.

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    Managing Careers in Large Organisations

    Hirsh W, Jackson C | Apr 2004 | Work Foundation

    Managing careers in large organisations looks at the changing context of career development, processes for managing careers and career development roles and organisational capability.

  • Occupational Segregation, Gender Gaps and Skill Gaps

    Miller L, Neathey F, Pollard E, Hill D | Apr 2004 | Equal Opportunities Commission

    As the first stage of a programme of research to investigate gender segregation IES carried out a review of research and an analysis of labour market and training statistics in five occupational areas where there were skills shortages. This publication is no longer available.

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    HR Outsourcing in the UK

    Reilly P, Wolfe H | Apr 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    The subject of HR outsourcing has attracted considerable attention during recent years and there is a lot of talk in the personnel press about the subject. However, there exists rather less detail on its extent and the strategic intent that underpins it. Is there really a shift towards a greater and deeper outsourcing of HR activities? This review seeks to address this question.

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    Facing the Market

    How Best to Align Remuneration Levels

    Reilly P, Silverman M | Apr 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Over time, there has been a general shift away from considerations of internal equity towards external equity. The value of a specific job role has become less about the particular skills that the employee brought to the job and more about its market price. This paper discusses how to establish the value of a job and looks at the issues of occupation, sector and location. The authors answer the question 'what drives interest in market-based pay?' and examine market-based pay in practice.

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    Secondments: a Review of Recent Research

    A Background Paper for IES Research Network Members

    Barkworth R | Mar 2004 | Institute for Employment Studies

    The purpose of this document is to try to bring together the existing literature on secondments, so that the process can be accurately defined, its usage assessed, and lessons learnt. What is clear is that the subject is, so far, largely ignored by the academic research community and so the information available is drawn primarily from case study examples.