Projects and case studies

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  • Describing and Assessing Culture Change at HSE

    The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) asked IES to write up a case study of their culture change programme 'Better together'. This programme has seen HSE move from a split headquarters in London and Bootle to a single headquarters, and has sought...

  • Unlocking Discretionary Behaviour at the Housing Ombudsman Service

    The Housing Ombudsman Service wished to engage its employees with the organisation in order to further unlock discretionary behaviour and sustainable performance improvement. To monitor the progress in raising the levels of engagement they used...

  • People Strategy at Cancer Research UK

    IES worked with HR Network member Cancer Research UK to develop an explicit people strategy for the organisation. Cancer Research UK performed comparatively strongly during the recession, and Executive Director of Human Resources Elizabeth Sideris...

  • Local Service Delivery of the National Dementia Strategy

    IES worked with Surrey University to evaluate and support the work of the Sussex Dementia Partnership. The partnership is an innovative way to deliver the National Dementia Strategy locally. While there is a key focus on patient, carer and service...

  • Getting to Grips with Workforce Planning in Local Government

    The Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) for local government encouraged those organisations for whom it provides expertise and support to seriously consider workforce planning. IES supported IDeA in refreshing and improving the tools,...

  • Care Quality Commission

    IES assisted the newly formed Care Quality Commission to consider as part of its new regulatory strategy how workforce issues should best be considered and assessed. The project involved comparisons with the approach and methods employed in other...

  • Achieving World Class HR

    In a bold initiative, 63 NHS organisations in the North West collaborated in a project 'Towards World Class HR'. Following early involvement, IES was asked to provide further research and consultancy support. It is important that these...

  • Council Succession and Talent Management Strategy

    IES worked with Birmingham City Council on implementation of its succession and talent management strategy. Birmingham is the largest city council in Europe and has already shown itself to be innovative in deploying the skills of its staff during...

  • Impact Assessment for Local Government

    Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) asked IES to support them in building impact assessment capacity in the public sector by developing capability among staff in PCTs and Local Authorities. IES provided a combination of specialist training...

  • Review of Executive Remuneration

    IES undertook a review of Guardian Media Group’s (GMG) executive remuneration arrangements. The review involved both external market comparisons and analysis of internal relativities. The review supported the existing principles underpinning GMG’s...