Publications
We author and publish a range of resources to keep you up to date with the latest developments in employment, labour market and human resource policy and practice.
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Improving health and employment outcomes through joint working
Bevan S | Feb 2018 | Public Policy Institute for WalesThis report analyses how economic inactivity, which remains high in Wales despite currently low unemployment levels, can be addressed. The report explores how employers, health services and employment services in Wales can work together more effectively to produce better health and work outcomes.
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Slides: Talent management: Strategies, practices and challenges
Hirsh W, Tyler E | Feb 2018 | Institute for Employment StudiesWendy Hirsh and Elaine Tyler's slides from IES HR workshop 'Talent management: strategies, practices and challenges', 15 February 2018, London.
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Fairness, flexibility and affordability
What are the lessons from pay and reward approaches and trends in the UK?
Brown D | Feb 2018 | Institute for Employment StudiesWith many UK workers experiencing real wage cuts and in a rapidly tightening labour market, this research paper, authored by IES' head of HR consultancy, Duncan Brown, analyses trends in UK pay and rewards over the past thirty years.
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The experiences of individuals in the gig economy
Broughton A, Gloster R, Marvell R, Green M, Langley J, Martin A | Feb 2018 | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS)This report authored by IES presents the findings from qualitative analysis of individuals working in the gig economy. The report's findings highlight the diversity of the gig economy, both in terms of the individuals undertaking this kind of work and the work that they are doing.
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Evaluation of the Carers in Employment (CiE) Project: Methodological details and tabular findings
Wilson S, Marvell R, Gonzalez-Carreras F | Jan 2018 | Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)This document presents a technical annex to the IES evaluation of the Carers in Employment (CiE) project. It contains methodological details of interviews conducted as part of the IES evaluation and tabular summaries of monitoring data collected at interim and final stages of the evaluation.
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Evaluation of the Carers in Employment (CiE) Project: Final report
Wilson S, Marvell R, Cox A, Teeman D | Jan 2018 | Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)This report presents the findings from the IES evaluation of the government-funded Carers in Employment (CiE) project which operated from 2015 to 2017. The project aimed to examine 'what works' in supporting carers to remain in or return to employment.
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Slides: Mental health and work
Bevan S | Jan 2018 | Institute for Employment StudiesStephen Bevan's slides from IES HR Workshop 'Good work and mental wellbeing: creating the healthy workplace', London, January 2018.
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Slides: Good work and mental wellbeing
Exton R, Totterdill P | Jan 2018 | Workplace Innovation EuropeSlides from Rosemary Exton and Peter Totterdill's presentation at IES HR Workshop 'Good work and mental wellbeing: creating the healthy workplace', London, January 2018.
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Slides: Productivity: What is it and why does it matter?
Bevan S | Dec 2017 | Institute for Employment StudiesStephen Bevan's slides from IES HR Network event 'Workplace productivity: The human factor', December 2017, London.
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Slides: Productivity...
Brown D | Dec 2017 | Institute for Employment StudiesDuncan Brown's presentation slides from IES HR Network event 'Workplace productivity: The human factor', December 2017.