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  Learning to be Healthier

  The role of continued education and training in tackling health inequalities

  Hillage J, Savage J, Lucy D | Jun 2009 | University College London

  This paper concentrates on adults and their participation in learning activities from formal work-based qualifications to informal community-based activities. This paper helped inform the first phase of the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England Post 2010 (Marmot Review).

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  Employee Engagement: A review of current thinking

  Robertson-Smith G, Markwick C | May 2009 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report brings clarity to the debate. Based on a systematic review of the literature on employee engagement and synthesising current thinking and evidence.

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  Financial Well-being in the Workplace

  Cox A, Hooker H, Markwick C, Reilly P | Feb 2009 | Institute for Employment Studies

  This report explores the relationship between financial well-being and employee performance at work. It incorporates one of the first surveys of employee financial well-being in the UK.

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  Organisational Responses to the HSE Management Standards for Work-related Stress

  Progress of the Sector Implementation Plan Phase 1

  Tyers C, Broughton A, Denvir A, Wilson S, O'Regan S | Feb 2009 | Health and Safety Executive

  Working to reduce the causes of work-related stress is a key area for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). This research was designed to evaluate a particular aspect of this work, the Management Standards for work-related stress, Sector Implementation Plan Phase 1 (or SIP1). This report provides an overview of the progress of SIP1 and draws together a range of qualitative data, including the experiences of organisations participating in SIP1, from the perspective of managers and staff working in those organisations, and the experiences of HSE and Acas staff supporting participating organisations.

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  Managing Stress and Sickness Absence

  Progress of the Sector Implementation Plan Phase 2

  Broughton A, Tyers C, Wilson S, O’Regan S | Feb 2009 | Health and Safety Executive

  This report reflects research that evaluates the HSE’s Sector Implementation Plan Phase 2 initiative, which aimed to help organisations manage stress and absence. It explores the effectiveness of the intervention in influencing procedures for managing work-related stress and sickness absence in organisations in the HSE’s target sectors. It also examines organisations’ existing policies and procedures in sickness absence management and stress management practices.

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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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  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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  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.

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  What Works in Delivering Improved Health and Safety Outcomes

  A Review of the Existing Evidence

  Cox A, O'Regan S, Denvir A, Broughton A, Pearmain D, Tyers C, Hillage J | Aug 2008 | Health and Safety Executive

  This report consists of a literature review on 'what works' in delivering improved health and safety outcomes, using data published since 2002. It is supplemented by an analysis of how HSE uses and generates research-based evidence, drawing on data from interviews conducted with HSE staff.

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  The RCVS Survey of the Veterinary Nursing Profession 2008

  The findings of a survey of veterinary nurses conducted by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons

  Robinson D, Munro M | Jul 2008 | Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS)

  The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) 2008 survey of the veterinary nursing profession was launched in January 2008. Questionnaires were posted to 11,156 people on the veterinary nurse database. This report analyses the findings from the survey. It reports on the following aspects of the veterinary nursing profession: personal profile, status, working practices, position, pay, career plans, continuing professional development and attitudes.