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Managing stress at work: the 2010 IRS survey
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 08/03/2010
Latest IRS research examines the steps employers are taking to manage and reduce work-related stress, including occupational health provision and counselling.

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Stress management training: the 2010 IRS survey
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 08/03/2010
Equipping line managers with good people management skills is considered the most important type of training intervention for dealing with stress at work, according to this IRS survey.

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Managers' pay and bonuses hit by recession
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 05/03/2010
The recession has had a severe impact on UK managers' pay packets, with executive pay showing its lowest rate of growth in at least a decade, according to the latest pay benchmarking research from XpertHR salary surveys.

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Project managers: private sector and contractors take pay hit in 2009
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 05/03/2010
Project managers working in the private sector have seen their pay hit harder in 2009 than their counterparts in the public sector, according to the fifth annual report on project management professionals from recruitment specialist Arras People. Contractors have been particularly badly affected by the recession.

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Datafile: 5 March 2010
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 05/03/2010
Key statistics on inflation, average earnings and pay settlements.

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Reporting gender pay gaps
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 05/03/2010
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has launched a voluntary scheme for reporting on gender pay gaps in the private sector - something that very few firms currently do. But many HR professionals feel that transparency itself will do little to tackle the deep-rooted causes of gender pay inequality. This feature explains what employers are expected to report on and how.

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Coaching brings success to creative teacher development project
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 03/03/2010
A teacher development programme using coaching and active learning has helped Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College develop teacher creativity and improve student learning.

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Right to request time off to train leaves employers unperturbed
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 03/03/2010
IRS asked employers how they thought the impending legislation giving employees increased rights for training will affect their organisation, and finds most employers believe it will not have a significant impact.

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Evaluation of training: the 2010 IRS survey
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 03/03/2010
IRS research finds that the most effective ways to evaluate training are appraisals and follow-up conversations with line managers.

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Number of registered nurses in NHS OH departments on the up
Source: Occupational Health
Date: 01/03/2010
Many NHS occupational health departments have increased the numbers of registered nurses they employ over the past two years, although there remains a wide variation in the mix between nurses, doctors and other staff, as well as a marked reluctance to employ OH technicians, a survey by NHS Plus has concluded.

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Forty employees killed in trips at work last year
Source: Occupational Health
Date: 01/03/2010
Slips, trips and falls in the workplace cost 40 workers their lives last year and the economy and society an estimated £800 million, latest figures from the Health and Safety Executive have said.

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Use of absence triggers in managing absence - the IRS survey
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 23/02/2010
Many organisations are using several different measures to trigger a management reaction to employee absence. This IRS survey examines those measures and the actions taken as a consequence.

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HR roles and responsibilities: the 2010 IRS survey
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 22/02/2010
HR had a challenging year in 2009, but has come through it in good shape. Our eighth annual survey on HR roles and responsibilities finds that the function is growing in demand and influence within organisations.

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Executive pay increases lag behind national earnings growth in 2009
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 19/02/2010
The median base pay increase for executives in FTSE 100 companies fell to around 1% in 2009, and in FTSE 250 companies the median increase was nil, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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IRS pay databank: 19 February 2010
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 19/02/2010
This file contains the full findings of the IRS pay databank, providing analysis of basic settlements across the economy by sector. The pay databank analysis is based on information from more than 1,200 awards collected by IRS pay researchers every year.

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