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News in Brief January 2016
Peers voted 327 to 234, to give a majority of 93 to a Labour motion forcing the Government to set up a select committee...
Jan 2016
Involvement and Productivity
The UK is in the midst of the longest stall in productivity growth in living memory. Productivity – which measures economic output per unit input...
Jan 2016
The principles of performance at work
Have you heard of the Anna Karenina principle? It’s based on the Tolstoy novel, where the Russian author wrote that “happy families are all alike;...
Jan 2016
News in Brief December 2015
MPs call to scrap employment tribunal fees MPs have called for employment tribunal fees to be scrapped as they argue it is having an...
Dec 2015
Direct Engagement of Employees in Change at Zurich UK Life
Background Over the last three years, Zurich UK Life has been on a culture change journey. Earlier this year, we had the opportunity to take...
Dec 2015
Worker protection in the gig economy: why the rules of the game may change in 2016
If one company caught the zeitgeist in 2015 then it’s probably Uber, the app powered taxi-booking firm. It has become the leitmotif of the so-called...
Dec 2015
The Happy-Productive Worker
In the words of Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, “Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything.” At the individual level productivity...
Dec 2015
News in Brief November 2015
Junior doctors to go on strike Junior doctors in England have overwhelmingly voted in favour of carrying out strike action in a dispute with the...
Nov 2015
Coaching for Engagement
As the recovery beds in and gathers pace, the challenges and opportunities facing people managers seem to be changing. Labour market forecasts indicate that as...
Nov 2015
ICE and Voice ten years on – An idea without a constituency
The Information and Consultation of Employees (ICE) Regulations, were seen by some at the time of their introduction in 2005 as a potentially transformative measure....
Nov 2015
Information and Consultation – Ten Years On
The IPA has produced a timely, detailed, coherent report looking back at the ICE Regulations 10 years on. I say ‘timely’ but there’s an argument...
Nov 2015
News in Brief October 2015
CIPD highlights the risks of short-termism CIPD’s new research, covering 3,500 business leaders and 2,200 HR practitioners around the world found that a many business...
Oct 2015
New research shows choking trade unions restricts the economy
As the Government’s Trade Union Bill progresses through Parliament, the New Economics Foundation (NEF) and the University of Greenwich launch a new report, which examines...
Oct 2015
How Workplace Participation Increases Productivity: Behavioural Evidence
It’s well known that UK plc faces a crisis in productivity. A solution that needs more attention is workplace participation. When people have more autonomy...
Sep 2015
News in Brief September 2015
UK businesses losing out on £84 billion a year due to poor management Research from Investors in People (IIP) found that UK organisations are missing...
Sep 2015