Research

Technology doesn’t just boost capability or replace jobs

2022-05-19T09:57:06Z

Hayfa Mohdzaini, Senior Research Adviser, Data, Technology and AI, CIPD Technology’s function in boosting people’s capability (augmentation) and replacing jobs or tasks has often been spoken and written about. But did you know there are o...(read more)

Creativity, authenticity and diversity in multicultural teams

2021-09-24T14:04:00Z

By Jake Young, Research Associate at the CIPD. Multicultural teams are not an emerging phenomenon – they have grown over the long term from globalisation, migration and greater workforce diversity. But the COVID-19 pandemic has seen organ...(read more)

Does low pay and poor job quality really need to be an inevitable fact of key worker life?

2021-07-14T15:31:00Z

Melanie Green, Research Adviser, CIPD The pandemic has prompted many a debate about the roles we value as a society, with key workers often in the spotlight, doing vital work in difficult circumstances. And t...(read more)

A calm before the storm? Why hasn't job quality changed drastically in the wake of the pandemic?

2021-06-09T00:01:00Z

By Melanie Green, Research Adviser at the CIPD. Despite the turbulence of 2020, and the subsequent impact on our workplaces, the Good Work Index 2021 finds that that job quality has generally remained stable in the past year. This might seem su...(read more)

LGBT inclusion blog series: focus on transgender and non-binary workers

2021-05-24T16:55:00Z

By Dr Luke Fletcher, Associate Professor, University of Bath School of Management. Inclusion and diversity is an increasingly important area within people management practice, and the CIPD’s People Profession 2030 report also highlights this wi...(read more)

LGBT inclusion blog series: focus on wellbeing

2021-05-07T14:05:00Z

By Melanie Green, Research Adviser at the CIPD. Employee wellbeing has been high on the list of priorities for organisations and people professionals alike in the past year. According to data reported in our People Profession in 2...(read more)

March 2021: Reflecting on the past year

2021-03-19T13:45:00Z

Mel Green & Gill Maxwell, Research Advisors On 23 March 2021 this year the National Day of Reflection in the UK will commemorate lives lost to COVID-19 and we will stand together with everyone who is grieving. In supporting this m...(read more)

Managing stress at Fideres Partners

2020-11-05T15:02:00Z

To mark Stress Awareness Week we asked Kate Bicknell, Head of People and Culture at Fideres Partners, how they have approached managing stress during the pandemic.We explore the initiatives they put in place, the advice they’ve given managers a...(read more)

Why people practitioners need to take tech seriously, and what they can do about it

2020-08-10T16:20:00Z

By Louisa Baczor, Founder and Research Consultant at Elbe Consulting. The current wave of tech-driven change known as the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ is blurring the divide between the human and digital worlds. In the workplace, t...(read more)

People Profession Survey 2020 for independent professionals

2020-03-06T13:22:00Z

By Rebecca Peters, Research Adviser at the CIPD. The self-employment job market is rising in numbers - CIPD’s 2018 megatrends report highlights that self-employment in the UK has been growing faster than general employment rates since 2001. Muc...(read more)

People profession: where do we go from here (and how do we get there!)?

2020-02-11T11:09:00Z

By Rebecca Peters, Research Advisor at the CIPD. The people profession is changing and to continue doing great work, people professionals need to be adaptive to the demands being placed upon them. Given the numerous corporate scandals or changes...(read more)

Job sharing at a senior level - working well for us.

2019-09-25T14:30:00Z

An Introduction Susannah and Philippa share the role of Head of Academic Quality at Nottingham Trent University, managing a team of 12. Both had many years' experience in the Higher Education sector before forming a job-share partnership, an...(read more)

How HR can help employees speak truth to power

2019-06-13T15:29:00Z

By Jake Young, CIPD Research Associate In part one we explored speaking truth to power in relation to workplace sexual harassment. Research shows that issues are faced not only by those who wish to make their voice heard, but by those with the r...(read more)

Championing employee voice by speaking truth to power

2019-06-05T13:30:00Z

By Jake Young, CIPD Research Associate We know that enabling employee voice is important and benefits both the employer and employee. Having voice, first and foremost, allows employees to influence matters that they deem important. Our CIPD research ...(read more)

How to support your older workers

2019-05-02T11:23:00Z

By Dr Aideen Young, Evidence Manager, the Centre for Ageing Better We all know the UK population is ageing. In the 15 years to 2031, there will be a 25% increase in the number of people aged 65 to 79 and a 4% decline in the number aged 20 to 34. Thes...(read more)