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    Learning from Cross-functional Teamwork

    Kettley P, Hirsh W | Sep 2000 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Cross-functional teams offer employers great potential rewards: their diversity of functional specialities, viewpoints and cultures represent the real 'coalface' of organisational learning and knowledge management. This report provides an understanding of the learning process within such teams and the influence of factors such as: team composition, task allocation, operating principles and values, and the support of the rest of the organisation.

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    Succession Planning Demystified

    Hirsh W | Sep 2000 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This report gives an account of how succession planning is conducted and where it fits with other HR processes and business priorities.

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    The Skills Implications of Electronic Retailing

    Tackey N, Hillage J, Jagger N, Bates P | Sep 2000 | Department of Trade and Industry

    The Department for Trade and Industry commissioned IES to assess the education and skills needs of the retailing sector, arising from the development of electronic commerce (e-commerce) over the internet, digital television and other media platforms. The research mapped out the principal industries and supply chain involved, identified the skills required in the retail sector and in the supply chain to participate effectively in e-commerce, and assessed the extent to which skill needs were being met. This publication is no longer available.

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    Reward Strategy: Ten Common Mistakes

    Bevan S | Aug 2000 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This paper identifies ten of the most common mistakes made by employers as they seek to formulate and implement reward strategy.

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    A Guide to the Current and Future Trends in Administration

    Tyers C | Aug 2000 | The Council for Administration

    An overview of how changes in the way businesses operate have affected, and will continue to affect, the development and execution of the administrative functions within organisations. It also offers practical recommendations about how to adapt to these changes. This publication is no longer available.

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    Employers Skill Survey: Case Study - Food Manufacturing Sector

    Dench S, Hillage J, Reilly P, Kodz J | Aug 2000 | Department for Education and Employment

    The Secretary of State for Education and Employment established the Skills Task Force to assist him in developing a National Skills Agenda. An important part of this remit was to provide evidence on the nature, extent and pattern of skill needs and shortages, and their likely future development. A substantial amount of the evidence came from a major programme of new research which looked at the extent, causes and implications of skill deficiencies. This is one of nine reports, with case study examples from the sector.

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    Employers Skill Survey: Case Study - Local and Central Government

    Tamkin P, Hirsh W, Hillage J | Aug 2000 | Department for Education and Employment

    The Secretary of State for Education and Employment established the Skills Task Force to assist him in developing a National Skills Agenda. An important part of this remit was to provide evidence on the nature, extent and pattern of skill needs and shortages, and their likely future development. A substantial amount of the evidence came from a major programme of new research which looked at the extent, causes and implications of skill deficiencies. This is one of nine reports, with case study examples from the sector.

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    Free, Fair and Efficient? Open internal job advertising

    Hirsh W, Pollard E, Tamkin P | Jul 2000 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Many major UK employers moved during the 1990s to more open internal job markets. These give the job of filling internal vacancies to the line manager (who 'owns' the vacancy) and employees who will see the job advertised and apply for it. This report looks at how this change has been working in practice in both private and public sectors, examines the dilemmas and offers a model of how to balance key tensions.

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    Measuring Soft Outcomes and Distance Travelled: A Review of Current Practice

    Dewson S, Eccles J, Tackey N D, Jackson A | Jul 2000 | Department for Education and Employment

    Monitoring systems for employment programmes targeting unemployed people have traditionally focused on 'hard', quantitative outcomes such as the numbers going into jobs or gaining qualifications. However, it is often both unlikely and inappropriate for projects to expect to achieve 'hard' outcomes from target groups that are facing multiple barriers to employment. IES was commissioned to look at the use of 'soft', qualitative outcomes on projects funded by the European Social Fund (ESF).

  • HR Shared Services and the Realignment of HR

    Reilly P | Jun 2000 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Shared services is an increasingly common organisational response to creating more efficient service delivery. This report is an in-depth look at the issues based on interviews with a number of organisations. They see that costs can be reduced through the economies of scale from centralisation of services. Organisations have found benefit in this structure, but there are design issues that must first be tackled.