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Employee Engagement – A Union Perspective
Employee engagement has become an increasingly important aspect of the employment relations landscape over recent years. Within the trade union movement, we are acutely aware...
Oct 2014
Are Employee Engagement Surveys leading us astray?
The vast majority of organizations now conduct employee surveys in some form or another and there is no doubt that their use has, for the...
Oct 2014
News in Brief October 2014
Fall in UK unemployment rate but concern for record number of Britons in low-paid jobs Recent figures from the Office of National Statistics show that...
Oct 2014
Making work better
Next year will mark 40 years since Harold Wilson set up his Committee of Inquiry into Industrial Democracy under Lord Bullock. The Inquiry’s report was...
Oct 2014
What’s the value of business to the UK?
Trust in business has taken quite a knocking in recent years. The shock of the recession and a series of high profile scandals have undermined...
Oct 2014
News in Brief September 2014
Global Workforce Study shows key factors in retaining and engaging employees The 2014 Global Workforce Study conducted by Towers Watson provides an insight...
Sep 2014
Democracy in the Workplace: an idea whose time has come?
In July’s IPA bulletin, the TUC General Secretary, Frances O’Grady, called for a new economic model, in which decent jobs, good wages and better work...
Sep 2014
Common rights in a single market? The EU and rights at work in the UK
The European Union has played a substantial role in shaping rights at work in the UK over the last thirty years. For Eurosceptics, this is...
Sep 2014
News in Brief July 2014
Report calls for the end of short-termist behaviour by UK leaders In October 2013, the APPGM and CMI jointly founded the Commission on the Future...
Jul 2014
The measurement and understanding of human capital – a journey
As has been observed by more and more commentators, we are unequivocally in the ‘age of talent’, where the biggest opportunities and challenges lie with...
Jul 2014
Making work better, making Britain better
With the general election looming on the horizon, this is a critical time for the trade union movement and the six million workers we represent....
Jul 2014
The one, two, three of employee voice
New research seems to confirm what most of us knew already: engagement works. The report, prepared by the IPA for Acas, shows that the four...
Jun 2014
Fair Shares – Strengthening voice and engagement to boost productivity and pay
The UK lags behind most of Europe in terms of employee involvement in decision-making and we suffer from relatively poor productivity. In this article, Mathew...
May 2014
News in Brief May 2014
Zero-hours workers feel excluded finds ACAS Research Recently released research by ACAS has shown that workers on zero hours contracts feel excluded, and that this...
May 2014
Weathering the Storm – Employee Engagement during the Recession
The last few years have been really tough for many employees. Not only did many face significant and difficult workplace change in the face of...
Apr 2014