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Beyond the Works Council: What Global Experience Taught Me About Employee Voice
When I first started negotiating with pilot unions in Hong Kong, I never imagined it would shape how I viewed the workplace. But after over...
Aug 2025
Good work, wellbeing, and productivity: what is the role of management?
What enables some places to have an abundance of good work when others don’t? After all, many key drivers of good work – favourable macroeconomic...
Jul 2025
Management Training: Impacting practice at moments that matter
One through line of all the organisations I’ve worked for is ‘learning by experience’. Something that is even more prevalent when moving away from front-line...
Jun 2025
Are you ready for change? Asks IES’s Dr Alison Carter
There is a lot of change about for organisations, and it feels like changes are speeding up. We may have got used to multiple overlapping...
Jun 2025
Bridging the divide – why the people issues matter
A persistent divide exists across the UK workforce, one that significantly impacts employee wellbeing, performance, and overall attitudes toward work. While early signs of improvement...
May 2025
Future Generations Report 2025: 10 years since the Act, what role can the workforce play in delivering Wellbeing for Wales?
The Welsh Government’s 2025 Future Generations Report represents a key milestone since Wales embarked on an ambitious roadmap to secure a sustainable future for the next...
May 2025
The Decline of Employee Participation in Britain
There has been growing evidence in recent decades of the importance of participation in decisions at work both for employees’ well-being and for their work...
Apr 2025
Why mediation is key to conflict solution
As a mediator of almost 30 years, I describe myself as allergic to formal grievances. The same allergy applies to most formal disciplinary hearings and...
Apr 2025
Moving from divisive diversity to constructive dialogue on inclusion for all
What’s next for DEI? This question is top of mind for HR leaders and diversity, equality, and inclusion advocates ever since Donald Trump signed his...
Mar 2025
Health, Work, and Engagement: Rebuilding a Sustainable Workforce
The UK labour market faces a growing and complex challenge: rising economic inactivity driven by long-term health conditions. Over 2.8 million people are currently out...
Mar 2025
We need more meaningful work in the public sector
The public sector in the UK is teetering on the brink of a crisis. Trust in government has tanked; productivity has yet to return to...
Feb 2025
Legislation is not a fix-all: how the potential for change is in the hands of employers
The Employment Rights Bill announced by Labour last year holds much promise for workers’ rights. As the biggest shake-up in a generation, it could transform...
Feb 2025
Amplifying employee voice and hearing the unheard: contemporary working lives in the west of Scotland
As an academic researching employee voice for over two decades, I am fortunate to be leading a 3 year project at Strathclyde Business School funded...
Jan 2025
A new employment relations settlement?
Is the Labour government about to write a new chapter in the history of British employment relations? That is certainly the declared intention of the...
Jan 2025
How much will it cost to improve our schools? Not nearly as much as you might think, writes Lindy Barclay.
There’s a crisis in our schools and our new government is going to need big and bold ideas to turn the lives of our young...
Oct 2024