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:
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.’