Projects and case studies

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  • Putting Strengths into Development

    IES worked with the IT HR team of Rolls-Royce to provide a strengths-focused element to the team's development programme. The team were based internationally in USA, Canada, Germany and the UK. The programme consisted of each person completing a...

  • Costs and Benefits of Introducing Advanced Practitioner Grades in the Health Service

    This project assessed the costs and benefits of introducing Advanced Practitioner grades in a range of occupational areas within the health service. Information on the productivity gains arising out of implementation of these roles was needed to...

  • NHS HR Capacity and Capability

    IES worked with the NHS North West in undertaking an HR Capacity and Capability Review. The overall aim was to ensure that HR outcomes support the effectiveness and success of NHS organisations in providing world class services to people in the...

  • Building Capability for a Self-improving NHS

    This project is designed to capture and develop learning from three HR/OD capability building initiatives designed to support the NHS workstream 'Building capability for a self-improving NHS'. The design reflects the collaborative nature of the...

  • Review of Training Delivery for a Government Department

    IES was asked by a government department to review their current training delivery arrangements. The review involved internal and external information-gathering phases. Internally, we explored business needs and clarified perceptions of current...

  • Finding Out How HR is Perceived

    Boehringer-Ingelheim, a pharmaceutical company, worked with IES to identify how its HR function is perceived both by those working in it, in the UK, and by the line managers and employees who use HR services and support. Wendy Hirsh from IES used...

  • Using the Flexible Nursing Workforce in the NHS

    IES carried out some work for NHS Professionals on the use of the flexible nursing workforce in the NHS. This included analysing data held by NHS Professionals on trends in the use of bank and agency nursing staff, and conducting case studies of...

  • Understanding the Business Partner Role

    IES facilitated a review at HM Treasury of the role of the business partner. This looked at questions concerning how it interacted with the rest of HR, relationships between the different business partners, and customer expectations. Issues...

  • Total Reward in Local Government

    We helped London Councils with a project investigating how total reward can be implemented in local government. London Borough of Camden is acting as the pilot organisation. It was apparent that pay plays less of a part in why people join, stay...

  • Reviewing Reward in Context

    IES has been working with Scottish Natural Heritage to review and develop a number of components of their new reward strategy. The first of these has been to conduct a specific market rewards survey of 17 other relevant organisations. Scottish...