Publications

e-Recruitment: Is it Delivering?

Kerrin M, Kettley P | Oct 2003 | Institute for Employment Studies

This report provides survey and detailed case study evidence of the experiences of organisations in implementing e-recruitment. It also illustrates perceived benefits, and evidence of barriers to implementation. A key message for recruiters is to acknowledge that the adoption of e-recruitment is about more than technology. Most significantly, e-recruitment is to do with cultural and behavioural change, both within HR and amongst line managers. For e-recruitment to deliver, it is about developing the capability of HR to facilitate the system, and to view the staffing process as an end-to-end process, similar to that of a supply chain.

New Reward I

Team, Skill and Competency Based Pay

Reilly P (ed.) | Oct 2003 | Institute for Employment Studies

The report critically examines why organisations choose to introduce team, skill or competency based pay. It looks at the evidence of whether many organisations are operating these practices. It considers what benefits they have found, but equally what difficulties they have faced. This involves reviewing the mechanics of how organisations operate such devices and the sort of design decisions they have to make.

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Working Long Hours: a Review of the Evidence

Volume 1 - Main Report

Kodz J, Davis S, Lain D, Strebler M, Rick J, Bates P, Cummings J, Meager N | Oct 2003 | Department of Trade and Industry

Long hours working is more common in the UK than most other countries, but quite similar to the US, Australia and Japan. After a period of long-term decline, the proportion of employees working over 48 hours a week rose through most of the 1990s (though by the early 2000s it had started to decline again). Excessive long hours working is associated with (though not proved to cause) lower productivity, poor work performance, health problems and low employee motivation.

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Evaluation of Adult Guidance Pilots

Tyers C, Aston J, Barkworth R, Willison R, Taylor J | Oct 2003 | Department for Education and Skills

Launched by the DfES in 2001, the Adult Guidance Pilots (AGPs) aimed to offer a seamless information, advice, support, and guidance service to disadvantaged groups, on work and learning opportunities. The AGPs were successful in reaching a wide range of clients, offering services tailored to clients needs, and extended support where required. This resulted in many clients taking significant steps towards further learning, gaining new skills, and gaining employment. The evidence suggested that the impact of AGP provision was particularly marked in relation to clients with learning difficulties/disabilities, asylum seekers and refugees, those with low qualification levels, and those with needs for low or basic skills. Some important lessons emerged from the pilots, particularly in relation to the nature of the target groups, clarity of information around what providers can realistically offer, and the importance of flexibility in provision.

Your Graduates and You

Effective Strategies for Graduate Recruitment and Development

Connor H, Hirsh W, Barber L | Sep 2003 | Institute for Employment Studies

This research examines how employers' graduate strategies are changing in the light of recent business, labour market and other changes. It identifies three main drivers of a good strategy: clarity of strategic intention for recruiting graduates; appropriate internal organisational arrangements, in particular the degree to which there needs to be corporate involvement; and providing varying amounts of planned, structured development to meet different business and graduate needs.

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Evaluation of Learner Support Funds

Final Report 2003

Dewson S, Tyers C, Pollard E, Bates P | Sep 2003 | Department for Education and Skills

This publication is no longer available. To increase participation and achievement in post-16 education and training, the government introduced reforms that extended opportunities, raised standards and made learning more attractive. The initiatives included new forms of support for learners but continued to rely on the Learner Support Funds to help individuals facing financial hardship. This evaluation report shows that the Learner Support Funds were providing an effective and sensitive response to learners' needs.

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Workforce Planning: The Wider Context

A literature review

Sinclair A, Robinson D | Jul 2003 | Employers' Organisation for Local Government

This review was part of the Employers' Organisation for local government project to support local authorities through the Comprehensive Performance Assessment. The main purpose of the report was to summarise research and literature primarily outside local government. Academic literature, practitioner literature and case studies were drawn upon to illustrate the context of workforce planning: its history, who uses it and why.

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The Making of a Cybertariat

Virtual Work in a Real World

Huws U | Jul 2003 | Monthly Review Press

The workplace has been changed in recent decades by the rise of digital technologies. Parts of a single labour process can be moved around the world, with implications not only for individual workplaces or firms, but for the working class as a whole. Huws' Making of a Cybertariat examines this process from a number of perspectives. It focuses especially on women in the workplace and at home. It examines changing categories of employment, and modes of organisation.

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Competency-Based Pay

Neathey F, Reilly P | Jul 2003 | Institute for Employment Studies

This paper describes the use of competencies in reward systems and highlights both the attractions of such an approach and the potential problems and pitfalls that may have contributed to its limited application.

eHR: An Introduction

Kettley P, Reilly P | Jun 2003 | Institute for Employment Studies

This report provides an introduction to the rapidly evolving field of eHR. It is an introductory guide to the concept of eHR and its implications for HR management. The report locates the differing models of eHR, as currently used by employers, within the wider context of HR strategy, and highlights a few of the unresolved challenges. Along the way it focuses on some of the practical demands of implementing eHR, as encountered by major UK employing organisations. Based largely on discussions with HR professionals and a review of the relevant literature, it sets out to give a feel for what eHR is all about, and to examine some of the lessons that can be learned.