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  • Creating longer, more fulfilling working lives

    Employer practice in five European countries

    May 2016 | Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

    This report is the culmination of research carried out by IES on behalf of the CIPD, investigating how employers can best manage an increasingly older workforce in the context of their health and wellbeing and care responsibilities. It is a comparative study covering five European countries: the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany and the UK.

  • Gender pay gap reporting: important, undesirable or irrelevant?

    IES perspectives on HR 2016

    Brown D | Apr 2016 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Duncan Brown offers a detailed description of this year's gender pay reporting requirement and how to maximise the benefits from it.

  • The me and we generations: the impact of intergenerational differences in the workplace

    IES Perspectives on HR 2016

    Parry E, Tamkin P | Apr 2016 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Generational differences and how they play out in the workplace have become a major area of interest to organisations and catalysed articles in the HR and broader business press and much commentary from consultancy organisations. The thrust of many of these articles is that such generational differences are fuelling difficulties in the workplace as different attitudes clash.

  • Tackling unemployment among disadvantaged young people

    Research for Centrepoint

    Buzzeo J, Marvell R, Everett C, Newton B | Mar 2016 | Institute for Employment Studies

    The findings of this research for Centrepoint enables them to offer constructive advice on how new policies on youth employment should be implemented to ensure they make a meaningful contribution towards helping the hardest to reach enter sustained employment.

  • Study on the Diversity within the Teaching Profession with Particular Focus on Migrant and/or Minority Background

    Final Report to DG Education and Culture of the European Commission

    Donlevy V, Meiekord A, Rajania A | Mar 2016 | European Commission

    IES was commissioned to provide Greek and Cypriot national reports for this publication, produced by Ecorys for the European Commission. This study sought to consolidate the evidence base regarding the diversity of the teaching workforce – based on a migrant and/or minority background – across the EU28.

  • Thoughts for the day: IES Perspectives on HR 2016

    Feb 2016 | Institute for Employment Studies

    This compilation of bite-sized essays by leading thinkers confronts and expands on existing thinking, plans, and practices in HR and employment. It will help HR leaders think about, plan for, and deal with these ‘known and unknown unknowns’, challenging modern fads, reinforcing some long-standing truths and offering original and practical insights.

  • Shared Parental Leave: Take-up levels, different approaches, and the keys to successful implementation

    Mercer M | Feb 2016 | Institute for Employment Studies

    Conversations with our HR Network members, and recent studies give us an insight into the implementation and take-up of Shared Parental Leave, and the issues that organisations have faced in trying to get it right.

  • What works for the labour market integration of youth at risk

    High Level Learning Exchange on ‘Designing and implementing effective strategies to support the integration and retention in the labour market of youth at risk’

    Hadjivassiliou K | Feb 2016 | European Commission

    This thematic paper was prepared for the high level Learning Exchange on 'Designing and implementing effective strategies to support the integration and retention in the labour market of youth at risk'.

  • Factors facilitating or constraining interventions to protect and promote health of older workers and to help plan and prepare for retirement

    Cox A, Hillage J, Marvell R, Swift S, Taskila T, Bajorek Z, Hind A, Brine J  | Sep 2015 | National Institute for health and Care Excellence (NICE)

    This report presents the third of the three reviews based on qualitative, non-intervention studies which examined factors which enable constrain employers in implementing workplace policies and practices to: protect and promote the wellbeing of older workers, support workers who wish to continue in employment up to and beyond state pensionable age, and affect the quality and outcomes of pre-retirement planning.

  • The effectiveness and cost effectiveness of ways to help older workers plan and prepare for retirement

    Cox A, Hillage J, Marvell R, Swift S, Taskila T, Bajorek Z, Hind A, Brine J  | Sep 2015 | National Institute for health and Care Excellence (NICE)

    This report presents the second of three reviews based on effectiveness studies which examined workplace policies and practices on pre-retirement planning.