Projects and case studies

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  • Jobcentre Plus National Employer Satisfaction & Experience Survey (2011)

    Jobcentre Plus is changing its services to employers in response to opportunities arising from digitalisation, decentralisation and local accountability. The aim of this research, undertaken in partnership with Ipsos MORI, is to measure...

  • Employee Survey for the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education

    IES was asked to run an online employee survey on behalf of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (the OIA). The OIA ws a small (but growing) organisation of around 40 employees, and this was the first employee survey. The...

  • Small Business Survey 2012

    The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) commissioned IES in partnership with BMG research to undertake a scoping study looking at how a future Small Business Survey can best meet the information needs of key stakeholders.

  • Career Patterns of Arts and Crafts Graduates

    IES undertook a longitudinal study of the career patterns of full-time first degree graduates in applied arts and crafts disciplines from UK institutions of higher education, 2009-2010. The study explored the diversity of work and employment...

  • Evaluating Fit for Work Service Pilots

    An IES-led consortium, including researchers from the University of Liverpool, the Social Policy Research Unit at York University, the National Institute for Social and Economic Research and GfK NOP, was commissioned by the Department for...

  • Working Towards World Class HR

    This was a joint project between 63 HR Directors in the NHS, with support from NHS North West and IES. In 2008, a model of World Class HR & OD, supported by a self-assessment methodology, was developed by IES. To inform the self-assessment,...

  • Employee Engagement Plan for the Health and Safety Executive

    IES carried out qualitative research for Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to explore the results of its first 'People Survey', in particular to gain a better understanding of staff engagement and its drivers, and to draw up an action plan to...

  • 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...

  • European Company Survey: Links Between Workplace Practices and Performance

    This project provided an analysis of links between measures of High Performance Work practices and employee and organisational outcomes using data from the European Company Survey of over 27,000 organisations in 30 European Companies. It assessed...

  • Improving employment opportunities for carers: identifying and sharing good practice

    This study collected, assessed and synthesised evidence of what works in supporting carer employment. Working in partnership with CIRCLE at Leeds University, the study included expert interviews, case study work, a survey of recent participants...