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Employee
Absence: a survey of management policy & practice
London: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
Annual survey of sickness absence policy and practice. Available as
a free document on CIPD website, once registered as a guest.
Subject: absence
Audience: employer support
Employee
Counselling Services
London: Incomes Data Services, 1999
Provides case study information about implementing an EAP and a detailed
list of
providers and their services
Subject: stress
Audience: employer support
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Facts
about women and men in Great Britain 2003
Manchester, Equal Opportunities Commission, 2003
Annual facts and figures on relative position of men and women in
Britain.
Subjects: diversity
Audience: self-help
Family
Business
London: Demos, 2000
ISBN: 1841800058
Contributions from an international range of individuals and that
discusses the emerging work-life agenda, assessment of recent policy
initiatives and offers practical solutions for the future.
Subject: family friendly
Audience: academic
Family-Friendly
Employment: The Business Case, Research Report 136
Brighton: Institute for Employment Studies, 1999
Examination of family friendly practices to identify their aims, costs,
implementation and effects and outline business benefits to obtained
by organisations. Also provides practical examples of how SMEs have
successfully implemented family-friendly working practices.
Subject: family friendly
Audience: employer support
Family
friendly rights
London, Hammonds, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development,
June 2003
ISBN 1 84398 004 5
New title in the CIPDs Law at Work’s Legal essentials series,
written by Hammonds. In-depth guidance for employers on how to implement
the family friendly legislation, which came into force in April 2003
and the existing, enhanced parental rights.
Subject: family friendly
Audience: Employer
Family-friendly
working? Putting policy into practice
York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2002
Research into 17 companies in financial services sector in Scotland
and then compared policy with practice in four case-study companies.
Subject: family friendly
Audience: employer support /academ
Flexible futures: flexible working
and work-life integration: summary findings from stage two of the
research
Cooper, Cary L Professor, London, Centre for Business Performance,
ICAEW, October 2001
Second stage of research commissioned by Centre for Business Performance,
at Institute of Charted Accountants, in England and Wales, into flexible
working and the accountancy profession. This part of the research
was a more in-depth study into issues, which arose from the first
stage. The report can be accessed as an electronic PDF document from
Centre of Business Performance at ICAEW.
Subjects: work life balance
Audience: academic
Flexible
working employee survey - results of the first survey
Tom Palmer, DTI, April 2004
DTI survey found amongst other things, that 52%
of respondents were aware of the right to ask for flexible working,
13% of employees had requested flexible working options since April
2003, 38% asking for part-time, 25% for flexitime options. More women,
than men, showed awareness of the rights (55% to 49%), and more women
asked for flexible working, (41% compared with 31%) with significant
gap between women and men with children under six years old (37% compared
with 10%).
http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/emar/flex_survey_results.pdf
Subject: Flexible working
Type of document: Employer, policy maker
Flexible
Working in the IT Industry: Long-hours cultures and work-life balance
at the margins, March 2004,
DTI
http://www.dti.gov.uk/industries/electronics/flexwork-it04.pdf
Subject: Work-life balance
Type of document: Employer
Flexible Working:
meeting the business challenge
Equal Opportunities Review No.127, March 2004, pp7-11
Case study of Central Scotland Forest Trust (CSFT). CSFT saw
addressing work-life balance issues as a way to improve performance,
introducing homeworking and flexitime, time of in lieu, flexible holiday
leave and a dog policy. This resulted in a dramatic fall in the rate
of staff turnover, an increase in the number of staff looking to stay
at the organisation, and a reduction in short-term and stress related
absence rates.
Case study of Job Centre Plus, Birmingham and Solihull, where the
DWP's 'diversity with purpose' strategy was employed to give a more
diverse workforce reflecting their customers more fully. Job Centre
Plus Birmingham and Solihull introduced flexible working hours, job
shares, generous paternity and maternity leave allowances and a scheme
to keep in touch with those on leave.
Subject: Flexible working
Type of document: Policy maker, employer
Flexible
working: Survey of awareness
London, Equal Opportunities Commission
Short survey of 800 people about their knowledge of and attitudes
to changes in flexible working entitlements.
Subjects: flexible working arrangements
Audience: employer support
Flexible working: the right to
request and the duty to consider: a guide for employers and employees
London, Department of Trade and Industry
Detailed guidance on the right for employees to request flexible working
and the duty on the employer to consider requests seriously. In 8
main sections, the guide covers: eligibility; making an application,
considering an application; reaching a decisions; exceptions to the
procedure and withdrawals; unresolved applications; and how the right
works with other legislation.
Subjects: flexible working arrangements
Audience: self help/ employer support
Flexible
working - why is no one applying?
Klegal, 15 September 2003
Results of survey carried out by Klegal into the number of requests
for flexible working, which legislation introduced in April 2003,
entitled working parents to. Klegal’s findings indicate that
very few requests have been made, and suggest some reasons for the
reticence.
Subject: family friendly
Audience: employer
Full and fulfilling employment:
creating the labour market of the future
London, Department of Trade and Industry, April 2002
This paper "analyses the UK labour market and sets out the Government's
vision of its future direction and the policies being delivered to
help achieve this." It explains the three principles that underlie
government policies for the labour market of the future: full employment,
diversity and choice, and raising productivity. Government interventions
involve: delivering macroeconomic stability; promoting work for those
who can and providing security for those who can't; making work pay;
investing in childcare; promoting skills and lifelong learning; minimum
employment standards; providing information; and promoting high performance
workplaces.
Subjects: business performance
Audience: academic
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Gender,
jobs and working conditions in the European Union
Fagan, Colette , Dublin, European Foundation for the Improvement of
Living and Working Conditions, 2002
Research paper based on findings from the 3rd European survey on working
conditions, this report assesses the gendered nature of working conditions.
Analysis includes: gender segregation in paid and unpaid work; job
content and workplace environment; working time and impact of working
conditions on health and work life balance.
Subjects: diversity
Audience: academic
Getting
it Right: Improving Work-Life Balance in Your Business
Produced by the Federation of Small Businesses in association with
the NSPCC & BCC
to raise awareness and promote the benefits of the flexible working
legislation in SMEs.
Subject: work life balance
Audience: employer support
Good
companies, better employees:
How community involvement and good corporate citizenship can enhance
employee morale, motivation, commitment and performance
http://www.corporate-citizenship.co.uk/employees/studies/hr3/hr3.pdf
Subject - business performance
Audience: employer
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Health and Well-being in the Workplace:
managing health, safety and well-being at work to boost business performance
London , Director Publications, 2002
ISBN: 1-90158-087-3
A guide for directors on how to handle issues around safety and health
risk management, and how to implement a well-being programme. It highlights
stress-related sickness absence. Contributions include theories, policies
and case studies.
Subjects: business performance
Audience: employer support
High Performance management practices,
working hours and work-life balance
M White, S Hill, C Mills and D Smeaton, British
Journal of Industrial Relations, June 2003, vol. 41,
no. 2, pp.175 - 195
The effects of selected high performance practices and working hours
on work-life balance are analysed with data from national surveys
of British employees in 1992 and 2000.
Subject: work-life balance
Audience: academic
How to tackle
psychological issues and reduce work-related stress
Luxembourg; Office for Official Publications of the European Communities,
2002
ISBN: 9-29191-009-0
Report on the psychological working environment and occupational stress.
Includes: examples of legislation and regulation in Europe; improvements
in the psychological work environment - stress and risk management,
health circles, absence management; reduction of stress; prevention
of violence at work and prevention of bullying. Each area is supported
by case studies from European wide organisations.
Subjects: stress
Audience: academic
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Impact
of women's position in the labour market on pay and implications for
UK productivity, The
Walby, Sylvia Professor , London Department of Trade and Industry
Research report produced by the Women and Equality Unit for the DTI
on the impact of women's position in the labour market, on their pay
and the implications for productivity. Includes analysis of: the concept
and measurement of productivity; gender pay gap; occupational mobility
surrounding childbirth; training and learning. Includes statistics
throughout.
Subjects: diversity
Audience: academic
Investors
in people guide to helping organisations manage work-life balance
Investors in People UK, 2003
ISBN: 0-11706-108-5
Short guide to a work-life balance model, and how to implement this
in an organisation. Discusses aspects of the model: principles; indicators;
culture; strategy; action and effectiveness. Includes glossary and
useful contacts.
Subject: work-life balance
Audience: employers
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Job satisfaction and work-life balance in the US and Europe:
Are you happy at work?
Oswald, Andrew Place: Warwick
Finds that job satisfaction is U-shaped over the life cycle. Examines
the characteristics associated with high levels of job satisfaction.
Subjects: work life balance
Audience: academic
Job-sharing
IDS Study 695
London: Incomes Data Services, August 2000
Pros and cons of job-sharing and examines the practical implications
of this type of working arrangement.
Subject: flexible working arrangements
Audience: employer support
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Labour
Turnover 2003: A survey of Ireland and the UK
CIPD
http://www.cipd.co.uk/NR/rdonlyres/CC237BAE-17DD-4D49-9728-CDBC98830D1E/0/laboursurvey2003.pdf
Latest annual survey of labour turnover in the UK
Subject: Absence
Audience: policy maker, employer
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