News
Do Employee Surveys Provide a True Picture of Employee Engagement?
A recent study undertaken by Cerus Consulting with a number of organizations in the charity sector has indicated that employee survey results frequently overstate the...
Apr 2014
Have Trade Unions got a role today?
I spent many years working for different trade unions mostly in the public sector and for several years in the private sector where I would...
Apr 2014
Meeting the Challenge
The IPA report “Meeting the Challenge-successful employee engagement in the NHS” provides an invaluable insight into how NHS organisations are sustaining staff engagement in challenging...
Apr 2014
More than a minimum – how the minimum wage could be reformed
The National Minimum Wage turns fifteen this April. While today it is a pillar of the UK labour market, even its short-term survival looked in...
Mar 2014
News in Brief February 2014
Reform, don’t end zero-hours contracts, says Resolution Foundation A leading think tank has rejected calls for a ban on zero-hours contracts, instead calling for legislation...
Feb 2014
Putting Conflict Management at the Heart of Organisational Strategy
Although conflict is a significant feature of organisational life, the importance of the way that it is managed, or often not managed, has been conspicuously...
Feb 2014
Engagement and the power of informed employee voice
Since employee voice was established as one of the 4 enablers of employee engagement in the MacLeod report in 2009, the IPA Best Practice Network...
Jan 2014
Digital Voice: Social Media at Southeastern
In 2008 we started to develop our engagement programme at Southeastern, building it around the milestones of the launch of the UK’s first high speed...
Jan 2014