Mary Mercer
BSc, MSc, MCIPD
Principal Associate
mary.mercer@employment-studies.co.uk
+44(0)1273 763 400
Mary is a consultant experienced in operational delivery, project management and project direction. Her key skill areas include shared parental leave, diversity, human resource and organisation development consulting, including flexible working, performance improvement, business process redesign and operational research. Mary leads our consultancy work on both flexible working and performance management and has delivered consultancy support within Local Government, Central Government, the Health Service and the Private Sector.
Mary’s philosophy is to deliver support that has a pragmatic and lasting impact, and she has a range of examples of how HR improvements can have a measurable business impact. As an experienced designer and facilitator of training and development, she runs development programmes and events for members of the IES HR Network.
Research publications
- Flexible working for parents returning to work, Mercer M, , Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas), Sep 2017
- Slides 'Shared Parental leave' update, Mercer M, , Institute for Employment Studies, Feb 2016
- Shared Parental Leave: Take-up levels, different approaches, and the keys to successful implementation, Mercer M, , Institute for Employment Studies, Feb 2016
- Shared Parental Leave: The new regulations in a nutshell, Mercer M, , Institute for Employment Studies, Mar 2015
- Slides: Some things to think about, Mary Mercer, , Institute for Employment Studies, Feb 2015
- The Fourth Work-Life Balance Employer Survey (2013) , Research Paper 184, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Dec 2014
- Top employers for flexible working, Mercer M, HR Network Paper mp101, Institute for Employment Studies, Jan 2014
- Diversity at senior team and board level, Mercer M, HR Network Paper mp95, Institute for Employment Studies, Jan 2014
- Masterclass: Embedding Diversity, Mercer M, HR Network Paper , Institute for Employment Studies, Jul 2013
- Top Employers for Working Families - Benchmarking Report 2012, Swan J, Mercer M and Jackson S, Report , Working Families, Jun 2012
- Top Employers for Working Families - Benchmarking Report 2011, Swan J, Morris L, Mercer M and Jackson S, Report , Working Families, Aug 2011
- Obtaining Customer Feedback on HR, Carter A, Hirsh W, Mercer M, Reilly P, Report 479, Institute for Employment Studies, Aug 2011
- Top Employers for Working Families - Benchmarking Report 2010, Mercer M, Jackson S, Report , Institute for Employment Studies, and Working Families, Sep 2010
- Flexible Nursing, Mercer M, Buchan J, Chubb C, Report 184, NHS Professionals, Jul 2010
- Review of the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework, Brown D, Mercer M, Buchan J, Miller L, Chubb C, Cox A, Robinson D, , NHS Employers, Mar 2010
- Business Case for the NHS Staff Survey, Robinson D, Hayday S, Mercer M, Report , Department of Health, Jul 2009
- Human Capital Measurement, Robinson D, Hooker H, Mercer M, Report 454, Institute for Employment Studies, Jul 2008
- Strategy Development and Implementation, Robinson D, Mercer M, , NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, Jun 2008
- Agents of Delivery, Reilly P, Mercer M, HR Network Paper MP72, Institute for Employment Studies, Sep 2006
- Your Call, Suff P, Reilly P, Mercer M, HR Network Paper MP51, Institute for Employment Studies, Aug 2005
Articles and chapters
- Delivering strategy through flexible working, Mercer M, Human Resources, February 2013
- Does flexible working reduce stress?, Mercer M, Employee Benefits, September 2012
- Flexible working and the Olympics – the real legacy, Mercer M, HR Bullets, August 2012
- Why flexible working seizes up, Mercer M, HR Director, April 2012
- PM and equality..., Mercer M, The HR Director, August 2011
- The revised KSF, Mercer M, National Health Executive, Cognitive Publishing, December 2010
Conference appearances
- How to ensure flexible workers do not miss out on promotion, Mercer M, Health and wellbeing at work 2011, Sterling Events, Birmingham, March 2011
- Unconscious Bias: How can we tackle the influence of managers’ unconscious bias to ensure fair outcomes from performance management?, Mercer M, Measurement, Management and Men, Working Families, London, January 2011
- Introducing flexible working, Mercer M, HR Management, Leading Ventures, London, November 2008