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Employment tribunal claims: XpertHR 2012 survey
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 17-09-2012
Most employers have faced a tribunal claim, with unfair dismissal by far the most common. Latest XpertHR research explores employers' satisfaction with the tribunal process itself and some of the outcomes that they have experienced.

Benefits provision during times of pay restraint
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 14-09-2012
This article examines the strategies employers are adopting to make the most of their benefits packages at a time when reward spend is constrained.

How to measure the success of learning: the 2012 XpertHR survey
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 05-09-2012
Our research finds that line manager input can be key to the successful evaluation of learning at an individual level, but this is jeopardised where managers lack commitment.

Learning evaluation keeps housing trust's culture change on track
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 05-09-2012
Housing trust Central & Cecil embarked on an ambitious programme of culture change, with learning and development programmes at its core. Evaluation of learning has been an integral part of the process.

XpertHR healthcare benefits survey 2012: coping with rising costs
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 24-08-2012
The XpertHR survey of health benefits looks at the different types of private healthcare schemes that employers offer, the costs involved, and how schemes are changing and responding to financial and other challenges.

Labour turnover rates: 2012 XpertHR survey
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 21-08-2012
The latest XpertHR research shows that employers experienced a median voluntary resignation rate of 7.9% in 2011 and a median total staff turnover rate of 13.2%, but there are the usual variations in labour turnover patterns according to industry and occupation.

Aligning employee performance with organisational goals: 2012 XpertHR survey
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 20-08-2012
Seven employers in 10 have a clear statement of their strategic direction, but knowledge of these objectives is scarce among less senior employees, and many organisations are missing opportunities to link their strategy effectively to performance.

Manufacturing 2012: no pay cuts as salaries rise by 2.6%
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 10-08-2012
XpertHR's latest annual survey of industrial relations in manufacturing includes the following key areas: pay settlement trends; the measures taken by firms to combat the effects of the recession; and the reaction of workers to employers' cost-cutting measures.

Overtime pay survey 2012
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 10-08-2012
Our latest survey of overtime arrangements in 100 organisations reveals that 93% have employees who are eligible to receive overtime payments, although only around one-fifth of employees regularly work additional paid hours.

How employers align HR with the business: 2012 XpertHR survey
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 30-07-2012
HR strategies are usually integrated with, or linked to, organisational goals, but HR staff are removed from this planning process at one-third of the organisations in this XpertHR research.

Employers' changes to psychometric testing: 2012 XpertHR survey
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 25-07-2012
In this report on the 2012 XpertHR survey on psychometric testing, we examine the improvements that employers would like to make to testing, as well as the administration and scoring of tests.

Absence rate remains at 2.8% of working time lost: 2012 XpertHR survey
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 24-07-2012
Latest XpertHR research finds that, for 2011, absence from work was unchanged from 2010 at 2.8% of working time, equivalent to an average of 6.4 days per employee. Sickness absence cost an average of £618 per employee.

XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2012: demise of final-salary pensions continues
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 13-07-2012
With the issue of pensions rarely out of the news - and a diverse array of pension arrangements in place across the UK - this part of our 2012 benefits and allowances survey examines the current picture in respect of this critical benefit. We also look at three benefits that are valued highly by employees: long-service awards, childcare provision and internal discounts.

Finance-sector pay 2012: moderate pay rises as sector growth slows
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 13-07-2012
Finance-sector pay has shown slow growth in the past year and continues to lag behind inflation as employers react to concerns over economic stability and the cost of impending regulatory changes.

Training managers to combat underperformance: 2012 XpertHR survey
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 11-07-2012
Learning how to conduct a difficult conversation is the most important aspect of performance management training for managers, according to respondents in our latest research, yet employers rarely make this mandatory.

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