Publications

IPA Bulletin

IPA bulletins:

01/03/08	Chris Ball, chief executive of TAEN makes the business case for age management and David Wechsler, former chief executive of Croydon Council examines why change management in the public sector often fails	Click here
01/02/08	Pat McFadden, Minister of State for Employment Relations, shares his view of the future world of work with the IPA	Click here
01/01/08	Behaviours are Equally Important as Skills IPA training and development director, Derek Luckhurst argues that to be effective skills for employee representatives need to be accompanied by the right behaviours. New IPA director, Nita Clarke, sets the agenda for the future of the IPA.	Click here
01/11/07	New Ideas for Progressive Employee Involvement and Participation Robert Stevens, previously IPA's research and information manager, sets out his vision for the future of employee involvement and participation.	Click here
01/10/07	What Impact have the Information and Consultation Regulations Had? Research by the Industrial Relations Research Unit at Warwick University evaluates the impact of the I&C regulations to date.	Click here
01/09/07	New IPA Director Appointed The IPA looks forward to new director Nita Clarke, until recently an adviser to Tony Blair, joining the organisation in the new year.	Click here
01/07/07	The five key steps to employee engagement IPA director of training and development, Derek Luckhurst, draws on his experience of training employee representatives to outline the five key steps that all organisations seeking engagement with their employees should be aware of.	Click here
01/06/07	What should the government do about work? Quality of work is a political issue. Work can affect our health, life expectancy and life chances. By David Coats, associate director, the Work Foundation.	Click here
01/05/07	Unions and High Performance Working Trade unions play an important role in helping organisations tap into the embedded knowledge in their workforce. This was the theme at a recent IPA/UKWON conference.	Click here
01/04/07	DTI Calls for Overhaul of Dispute Resolution Processes Jenny Wilson of employment lawyers Pinsent Masons looks at the Gibbons review of employment dispute resolution procedures.	Click here
01/03/07	Free movement and the European social model Deirdre Fitzpatrick at the International Transport Workers' Federation, discusses the right to protect jobs, versus the free movement of labour in the EU.	Click here
01/02/07	Senior management support is vital to building employee engagement Willy Coupar reveals new survey findings from the IPA.	Click here
01/12/06	Driving forward employee involvement Robert Stevens, IPA research and information manager, explores the benefits of employee involvement in improving service delivery in the public and private sectors.	Click here
01/11/06	The real business case for age diversity Judith Wardell, IPA Associate, outlines the importance age diversity has for employers in making the most of talent at all ages in the workforce.	Click here
01/10/06	Co-ownership creates customer and employee engagement Analysis of a JOL survey of co-owned businesses and the impact co-ownership has on employee engagement.	Click here
01/09/06	Good work - An agenda for trade unions and employers John Earls, research section head at Amicus, outlines the unions new five point "agenda for better jobs."	Click here
01/07/06	Employee engagement gets high performance working This issue looks at how organisations are rising to the challenge of high performance working by engaging employees in new ways of working.	Click here
01/06/06	Building the unions workers deserve New IPA President, Sir Bill Connor outlines the role of trade unions in the changing world of work.	Click here
01/05/06	Health and safety partnerships encourage worker involvement in smaller workplaces Shephen Wood, Chair of the Workers' Safety Adviser Challenge Fund explains how the Health and Safety Executive is encouraging worker involvement and building partnerships that support continuous improvement in health and safety.	Click here
01/04/06	Leading by example - DTI reveals new business support to encourage workplace consultation Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry explains how the DTI is encouraging good practice in workplace consultation.	Click here
01/03/06	Right challenge - wrong conclusion Keith Sisson, Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations, Warwick Business School explains why he believes involvement and participation are key to employee engagement and high performance working.	Click here
01/02/06	What does employee relations mean for employers? CIPD employee relations expert Mike Emmott looks at the growth of direct employee engagement and the future of collective employee relations.	Click here
01/12/05	Every business can be high performance Gerry Sutcliffe, Minister for Employment Relations explains why high performance is at the heart of Labour's third term.	Click here
01/11/05	The power of people Report form the first IPA-UKWON workshop to promote and develop effective information and consultation.	Click here
01/10/05	Truly engaging BAA and Bromford Housing Group discuss the practicalities of engaging employees and achieving mutual benefits consistent with the values employers and employees share.	Click here
01/09/05	WERS 2004 reveals widening gap in collective representation After more than 20 years, the decline of trade union recognition in larger workplaces may have finally arrested, but collective representation continues to fall in the smallest workplaces.	Click here
01/08/05	Prudential points the way to combined consultation One of the first pre-existing agreements to besigned since the I&C regulations came into force, Prudential UKindicates how others might establish all employee representative arrangements in a partially unionised environment.	Click here
01/05/05	Putting it into practice: five key issues in I&C The I&C regulations, which came into force on 6 April, leave considerable scope for interpretation. John Storey, professor of human resource management at the Open University Business School, assesses the implications.	Click here
01/04/05	Are you preparing to consult or negotiate? The IPA's Derek Luckhurst looks at the role of consultation and negotiation in extending the influence of representatives.	Click here
01/03/05	Partnership progress: how is it evolving? Robert Stevens reviews the discussions from the Consultation Day organised as part of the Moving Partnership On project.	Click here
01/02/05	Partnership: the way to corporate renewal? Britain must develop more high performance workplaces or risk falling further behind its competitors, suggests Robert Taylor. Spurred by the information and consultation regulations, we should harness partnership to raise our game.	Click here
01/01/05	Time to spread the message: a chance for cultural change Derek Luckhurst explores the likely impact the UK information and consultation regulations on employee relations and organisational change.	Click here
01/11/04	Seconding staff makes for first-class representatives Derek Luckhurst, IPA assistant director, considers the role of seconded representatives in developing effective employee consultation.	Click here
01/09/04	Partnership working: a practitioner's guide A key reference source for people engaged in buiding and sustaining partnership - Derek Luckhurst discusses the key themes behind the IPA's new report.	Click here
01/07/04	Informative lessons in consultation help to hone competitive edge Derek Luckhurst looks at why voluntary organisations have been particularly active in establishing consultative forums for staff.	Click here
01/06/04	BALLOTING SPECIAL Making elections count: priorities for conducting an effective ballot. Sarah Dawson explains the process of balloting to endorse existing consultative arrangements or elect employee representatives.	Click here
01/05/04	An agenda for the workplace TUC general secretary Brendan Barber outlines the opportunities for government and the unions to make Britain a better place to live and work.	Click here
01/04/04	Creating a real voice for employees at Bank of Ireland Financial Services IPA assistant director Derek Luckhurst describes the successful change and the benefits employee voice has brought.	Click here
01/03/04	Information and consultation audit can guide people progress With the information and consultation regulations a year away, the IPA outlines outlines a 12-step consultation audit to help organisations increase the effectiveness of their arrangements.	Click here
01/02/04	Take-off for higher performance Marc Thompson, senior research fellow in employee relations at Templeton College, Oxford, discusses the impact of HR and working practices on performance in the areospace industry.	Click here
01/12/03	Understanding employee relations can unlock high performance IPA director Willy Coupar examines the evidence about the factors that create high-performance workplaces.	Click here
01/11/03	IPA calls for stronger safeguards to protect existing good practice Stronger provisions are needed to safeguard organisations' existing arrangements, says the IPA, before the DTI finalises the Information and Consultation Regulations.	Click here
01/10/03	Informatin and consultation laws:impact on existing good practice Philip Titchmarch, associate at law firm Pinsents, examines the government's proposed Information and Consultation Regulations	Click here
01/09/03	United Welsh Housing Association and Unison break new ground using option-based consultation IPA assistant director Derek Luckhurst explains how option-based consultation underpins strong partnership.	Click here