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Survey: Investors in People
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 16/05/2008
We survey users of the Investors in People (IiP) standard to explore the impact it has had on business performance, along with the frustrations they have faced.
Health skills gap
Source: Training & Coaching Today
Date: 01/11/2007
Research into health skills gaps in the voluntary health sector has identified 10 areas for concern.
The IRS graduate recruitment survey 2007/08
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 22/10/2007
Our report on graduate recruitment for 2007 to 2008 highlights the most effective ways that employers have found to compete for graduates, encourage them to apply for their vacancies and then make their selection decisions.
Survey: Workplace training - budgets and challenges 2007
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 08/10/2007
Workplace training trends including learning and development goals, delivery methods, budgets, major challenges and successful solutions are investigated in an IRS survey of 86 employers.
All human life is here . . .
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 22/09/2006
The findings of the WERS 2004 provide a nationally representative portrait of employment relations and working life. We look at some of the highlights.
Absence and attendance: the challenges for 2006/07
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 02/06/2006
Absence and attendance issues are fixed firmly on the radar of most employers, according to our latest annual HR Prospects study, amid signs that health and employability are set to move up on the government's agenda.
Local authorities invest £391 million in training
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 03/03/2006
Expenditure on workforce training by local government employers rose to £227 a head in the 2004/05 financial year, representing a total bill of some £391 million.
Effective training
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 17/02/2006
A survey of manufacturers has found a strong connection between profitability and the alignment of training with strategic business goals.
Sexual orientation: a survey of union action
Source: Equal Opportunities Review
Date: 01/06/2005
Kate Godwin reports on a survey, conducted jointly by EOR and the TUC, revealing how trade unions have dealt with the new laws prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.
Budgets, buy-in and bite-sized learning: trends in training
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 29/04/2005
From planning and budgeting to management development and coaching, our survey looks at how organisations are dealing with some of the key challenges around employee learning and development.
Proof positive
Source: Training Magazine
Date: 01/02/2005
Training managers can now argue the case for management development backed by empirical evidence, but they need to raise their profile and sharpen up on measurement.
Double your money - how to profit from IiP
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 12/11/2004
Research commissioned by Investors in People suggests that employers can substantially boost their profits by signing up to the standard.
From spelling to selling: training support for employers
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 06/06/2003
The government has made workforce development a priority, recognising its contribution to increasing UK productivity. We look at the information and guidance available to employers in pursuing their training and development policies.
Colleagues are preferred source of advice on training
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 23/05/2003
HR managers look to colleagues for training advice before going outside the organisation, according to research to be published in the next issue of IRS Employment Review.
Record of achievement
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 09/05/2003
From successful casework management to issues of high strategy, our respondents cited an impressive range of personal achievements over the past 12 months.
Case studies
The change gang
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 25/07/2006
Managing a major £2m cost-cutting programme and laying off 13% of staff was a daunting task for the Housing Corporation's HR department, as Nic Paton discovers.
BI bounces back with culture of employee engagement
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 20/01/2006
Faced with declining revenues and high staff turnover, BI introduced a new culture based on communication, involvement and performance management, which motivated staff and led to increased profits and lower staff turnover.
Exel puts engagement first to improve performance
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 20/01/2006
The need to make values and standards explicit for customers led Exel to retrain all its managers in behaviours that are designed to increase performance through employee engagement, and to offer staff complementary rights and responsibilities.
Passing on the reins
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 01/11/2005
Coaching helped the owner-manager of a small company to step back from the day-to-day running of the business.
Starting HR from scratch
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 13/09/2005
How do you go about laying the foundations and setting up an HR department? Nic Paton talks to one HR professional who has done just that.
Hackney HR leads the way
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 24/08/2004
Hackney Council suffers from a poor public image, yet it has won Investors in People accreditation. The council's HR assistant chief executive Terry McDougall tells Michael Millar how she and her team did it.
Worldwide delivery
Source: Training Magazine
Date: 01/06/2004
TNT Express is winning worldwide recognition for its people development initiatives. HR director Maureen Rooney explains why.
Delivering change
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 27/04/2004
With a new managing director and a place on the board, the HR director at TNT Express has a lot to look forward to. Martin Couzins finds out about Maureen Rooney's people management plans.
Rochdale Borough Council makes a start with the chief executive
Source: Competency & Emotional Intelligence
Date: 01/10/2003
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council's introduction of competencies in performance management forms part of a programme of cultural change that has been taking place since the appointment of Rochdale's new chief executive in June 2000.
Developing the right values
Source: Training Magazine
Date: 01/04/2003
Shepherd Construction is building a name for its people development activities. Stephanie Sparrow met its personnel director Sharon Copland-Jones.
Comprehensive success
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 21/03/2003
As 13 local authorities are given a "poor" performance rating and 22 are judged to be "excellent" under Comprehensive Performance Assessment, we look at CPA and what it means for one council rated "excellent", the London Borough of Camden.
GlaxoSmithKline: developing leadership
Source: Competency & Emotional Intelligence
Date: 01/03/2003
This case study focuses on the development of employees' leadership competencies at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)'s site in Maidenhead. Over a two-year period, a substantial investment in the latest technology turned it into a "production super site".
Rising to a work-life challenge
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 09/12/2002
Participating in the DfES Work-Life Balance Challenge Fund has brought two-way benefits for South Shropshire Housing Association and its staff, improving employee satisfaction and motivation.
New economy needs to learn old tricks
Source: Training Magazine
Date: 03/10/2002
Tried and trusted approaches such as the Investors in People Standard have plenty to offer some of the new industries, says the managing director of specialist manufacturer Pocklington Coach Works
In a world of their own
Source: Training Magazine
Date: 01/07/2002
Liz Dean, management development and education consultant with the Abbey National Group, explains why the company chose Impact Development Training Group's business simulation, Simpact, to prepare its graduates for future key positions within the firm.
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