New IES essays on gender pay reporting, performance management and much more

Researchers at the Institute for Employment Studies have published a collection of articles urging organisations to consider both general and strategic HR issues, as well as particular challenges, including a detailed description of this year’s gender pay reporting requirement and how to maximise the benefits. This compilation of bite-sized essays by leading thinkers confronts and expands on existing thinking, plans, and practices in HR and employment. Why is performance management underperforming and what should we do about it? Should we really be so obsessed with generational differences?

The chapters in this year’s IES Perspectives on HR include:

  • The me and we generations: the impact of intergenerational differences in the workplace
  • What’s the point? the importance of meaningful work
  • Gender pay gap reporting: important, undesirable or irrelevant?
  • Performance management, a tale of two practices?
  • Swimming against the tide: getting whistleblowers on board
  • From consultation to co-production: high involvement change
  • Can values add value?
  • Ethical leadership

Duncan Brown, Head of HR Consultancy at the Institute, said:

'In times of continuing uncertainty we felt it was vital to offer HR leaders, from IES’s unique position on the research/practice boundaries, a set of evidence-based essays to inform and challenge their thinking and practices. Market and economic challenges, cost pressures, flat-lining engagement levels and failed restructurings all present serious challenges to HR functions. But they also provide tremendous opportunities to put into practice the business-impacting ambitions many have been pursuing for the last 20 years.’
'Thoughts for the Day: IES Perspectives on HR 2016' can be downloaded free of charge at www.ieshr.co.uk/hr2016. The Institute for Employment Studies is the 'UK’s leading independent centre for research and evidence-based consultancy in employment, labour market and human resource policy and practice'.