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Strengthening Employment Relations

Strengthening Employment Relations

The Employment Rights Act presents a range of challenges and opportunities for employers as they navigate new responsibilities. Find out how IPA can help.

A Guide to Establishing Staff Networks

A Guide to Establishing Staff Networks

This CIPD guidance, written by IPA, provides managers and employee representatives with advice on setting up employee networks, employee resource groups (ERGS) or other informal networks for employees with protected characteristics or similar needs and interests.

What is Employee Voice?

What is Employee Voice?

Employee voice exists, whether you recognise it or not. The only question is – “are you listening?”

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Better People Management in UK Warehouses

Better People Management in UK Warehouses

Recently completed fieldwork studies have led to the development of a toolkit designed to assist managers in creating improved workplaces characterised by good work standards…

Sep 2026

A Union Transformed: Culture, Capability, and the Member Experience

A Union Transformed: Culture, Capability, and the Member Experience

Jim Leonard, General Secretary of Advance Union, shares the journey of internal transformation the organisation has undertaken, completely reshaping how the union supports, engages, and…

Sep 2026

Productivity starts with people: Why employee engagement matters more than ever

Productivity starts with people: Why employee engagement matters more than ever

Performance and productivity sit at the heart of debates about the future of work in the UK. Yet despite sustained policy and business attention, the…

Jul 2026

What new sectoral bargaining could mean for pay and workforce stability

What new sectoral bargaining could mean for pay and workforce stability

Naomi Cooke, Head of Workforce at the Local Government Association, reflects on what the introduction of a new model of sectoral bargaining could mean for…

Jun 2026

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