The Work Foundation Events

Current Affairs: Dr. Hermann Hauser in conversation with Will Hutton

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:28:40 GMT

Over the past decade we were able to rely on growth fuelled by financial, construction and property services – the remaining jobs were provided by a public sector boosted by tax receipts from a boom economy. These areas can certainly not be relied on to drive growth today. As we set out within our recent paper Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship in 2020, the challenge in the recovery will be to rebuild our economic model around investment and innovation with little direct public money.

A key element of this will be ensuring that the economy translates bright ideas in universities into new products and services, new business ventures and new jobs. The UK must develop a translational infrastructure that bridges the gap between universities and industry in order to provide a business-focused capacity and capability that bridges research and technology commercialisation. Other countries already have such infrastructure, for example the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in Germany.

Hermann Hauser is an entrepreneur who has helped four of the companies that he has worked with become billion dollar companies. He recently completed an assessment of The Current and Future Role of Technology and Innovation Centres in the UK. Central to this assessment was the discussion of a fundamental weakness within our innovation system:

The UK has a science capability second only to the US: an undoubted source of competitive advantage. However, it falls short on translating scientific leads into leading positions in new industries.

He will talk about his experiences working with companies to create and support innovative ideas emerging from research, and how the UK might correct its critical weakness in this area by drawing on the institutional arrangements of our trading partners.

Speakers:

Will Hutton, Executive Vice Chair, The Work Foundation
Herman Hauser, entrepreneur and venture capitalist

To reserve your place onto this event, please email ngryf@theworkfoundation.com and include your name, company, job title, email address and telephone number.

Liberal Democrats Party Conference - Body and Soul: Exploring the connection between physical and mental conditions for a healthier economy

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:29:06 GMT

Speakers: Stephen Bevan (Chair), Managing Director, The Work Foundation, Andrew George MP, Phil Gray, Chief Executive, Chartered Society of Physiotherapists, Jane Harris, Deputy Director of EA, Rethink, Louise Aston, Director, Business Action on Health, Business in the Community.

Please contact Nina Gryf ngryf@theworkfoundation.com for further information.

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Liberal Democrats Party Conference - Working longer, living better: The future of pensions in transforming workplace

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:50:40 GMT

Speakers: Will Hutton, Executive Vice Chair, The Work Foundation, Stephen Lloyd
(invited), Nick Timmins, The Financial Times (invited)

By invitation only roundtable.

Please contact Nina Gryf ngryf@theworkfoundation.com for further information.

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Liberal Democrats Party Conference - Where will the jobs come from? Growth, fairness and good work

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:36:33 GMT

Speakers: Stephen Overell, Associate Director, The Work Foundation, Will Hutton, Executive Vice Chair, The Work Foundation, David Ward MP, Andrew Cave, Head of Policy, FSB

Please contact Nina Gryf ngryf@theworkfoundation.com for further information.

Social Capital and Workplace Resilience

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:43:28 GMT

Partner Workshop:

Social Capital: Do relationships in the workplace matter?

The Event

In the 21st century it is not just human capital that matters to successful organisations but also social capital: building and sustaining strong personal and professional networks. Social capital can act as an enhancer of wellbeing as well as a protective factor when faced with adverse circumstances e.g. economic uncertainty, downsizing, lack of control or autonomy. Internal support networks can help employees navigate through uncertain times and strengthen their resilience, so what can employers do to encourage mutual support?

Building on the growing interest between organisational social capital and health, this workshop will look at how modern organisations can support/create social capital within the workplace, and will discuss how organisational social capital may be used as a buffer against workplace stress.

Some of the questions that will be asked include:

What are the mechanisms that can help an organisation to generate, sustain and increase social capital?
How can individual managers or management practices as a whole shape these mechanisms?
What are the business benefits of supporting organisational social capital?

Speakers:

Stephen Bevan, managing director, The Work Foundation
Tatiana Quadrello, senior researcher, The Work Foundation
Guest speakers to be confirmed

Why should people attend?

The aim of this event is to provide our partners with insights to inform their own organisation’s practice and an opportunity to learn the views of others through a lively and provocative debate.

This event is exclusively for partners of The Work Foundation and there is no fee to attend.

To reserve your place on this event, please email partnership@theworkfoundation.com and include your name, company, job title, email address and telephone number.

Labour Party Conference - Free to succeed? School reform and the new economy

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:43:27 GMT

Speakers: Will Hutton, Executive Vice Chair, The Work Foundation, Ed Balls MP (invited),
Rod Bristow, President, Pearson UK, Anders Hultin, expert on free schools and school
improvement, Phillip Collins, The Times, Prof Dylan Wiliam, Institute of Education

Please contact Nina Gryf ngryf@theworkfoundation for further information.

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Labour Party Conference - Body and Soul: Exploring the connection between physical and mental conditions for a healthier economy

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:52:54 GMT

Speakers: Stephen Bevan (chair), Managing Director, The Work Foundation, Baroness
Thornton, Phil Gray, Chief Executive, Chartered Society of Physiotherapists, Mark Davies,
Director of Communications, Rethink, Louise Aston, Director, Business Action on Health, Business in the Community

Please contact Nina Gryf ngryf@theworkfoundation for further information.

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Labour Party Conference - Where will the jobs come from? Growth, fairness and good work

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:56:27 GMT

Speakers: Will Hutton, Executive Vice Chair, The Work Foundation, Stephen Overell,
Associate Director, The Work Foundation, Baroness Denise Kingsmill (invited)

Please contact Nina Gryf ngryf@theworkfoundation.com for further information.

Labour Party Conference - Working longer, living better: The future of pensions in transforming workplace

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:27:23 GMT

Speakers: Will Hutton, Executive Vice Chair, The Work Foundation, Yvette Cooper MP (invited), Nick Timmins, The Financial Times (invited)

By invitation only roundtable.

Please contact Nina Gryt ngryt@theworkfoundation.com for further information.

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Conservative Party Conference - Body and Soul: Exploring the connection between physical and mental conditions for a healthier economy

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:01:12 GMT

Speakers: Stephen Bevan (chair), Managing Director, The Work Foundation, Lord Freud, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Welfare Reform), Phil Gray, Chief Executive, Chartered Society of Physiotherapists, Paul Jenkins, CEO, Rethink,

Please contact Nina Gryf ngryf@theworkfoundation for further information.

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Conservative Party Conference - Where will the jobs come from? Growth, fairness and good work

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:11:18 GMT

Speakers: Will Hutton, Executive Vice Chair, The Work Foundation, Stephen Overell,
Associate Director, The Work Foundation, John Hayes MP, Katja Hall, Director of
Employment Policy, CBI, John Philpott, Chief Economist, CIPD

Please contact Nina Gryf ngryf@theworkfoundation.com for further information.

Conservatives Party Conference - Working longer, living better: The future of pensions in transforming workplace

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:42:09 GMT

Speakers: Will Hutton, Executive Vice Chair, The Work Foundation, Chloe Smith MP (invited), Nick Timmins, The Financial Times (invited)

By invitation only roundtable.

Please contact Nina Gryf ngyrf@theworkfoundation.com for further information.

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Partner Employment Law Seminar: Discipline and Grievance

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:08:19 GMT

It is now an unfair dismissal (with a 1-25% uplift) to fail to follow the ACAS Code on Discipline and Grievance Procedures. The ACAS Code contains a disciplinary procedure similar to the statutory one, but the grievance procedure has changed, with the loss of the post employment grievance. There are no specified procedures for non-disciplinary dismissals such as redundancy and sickness.
This workshop will look at the changes introduced by the Code and its supporting guidance notes as well as procedures for non-disciplinary dismissals.

Olga Aikin CBE LLB Chartered FCIPD has a unique reputation for combining legal application with the sound knowledge of UK and EU law. She writes regularly for People Management and other legal and management journals and appears on TV and speaks on radio on subjects related to employment law.

This event is exclusively for partners of The Work Foundation and there is no fee to attend.
To reserve your place on this event, please email partnership@theworkfoundation.com and include your name, company, job title, email address and telephone number.
If you have any questions about your partnership, please call 020 7976 3512.

Understanding the Deal – A framework for a sustainable employment relationship

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:47:48 GMT

Understanding the Deal – A framework for a sustainable employment relationship

Report Launch

The Event

The Work Foundation will be launching their final and fourth paper in the Future of HR Research series at the HRN Europe Conference: Transform 2010 conference in October 2010. The Future of HR programme has explored how staff in twenty first century service organisations should be effectively managed to achieve and sustain high performance in the context of an increasingly sophisticated citizen and customer base.

This session represents the culmination of two years of research by The Work Foundation into what makes for a healthy employment relationship, and the relative roles of the key players in people management – HR, leaders and line managers.

The programme has included an extensive literature review of past and current thinking about the employment relationship; a Delphi exercise looking at the future of work and the elements likely to be shaping the deal in 2010; qualitative research in our sponsor organisations; and the development of a framework for considering the implications for people management. The session will present our key findings and highlight key implications for HR, leaders and line managers for debate.

The fees are:

Two Day £1595 (includes networking dinner and network membership)
Day Ticket £845

Partners with The Work Foundation receive a 30% discount.

For more information, please contact David at dshoesmith@theworkfoundation.com or call him on 020 7976 3574

High Performance Working: Where people and skills take centre stage

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:59:05 GMT

Partnership Workshop:

High Performance Working: Where people and skills take centre stage

Speakers:

Penny Tamkin, programme lead – people effectiveness, The Work Foundation
Guest speakers to be confirmed

Who should attend?

Directors of strategy; directors of HR; and anyone interested in people management and high performance working.

The Workshop

‘High Performance Working’ places people and their skills centre-stage. In a report recently produced for UK Commission for Employment and Skills, it was found that policies and practices in high performance workplaces were underpinned by a philosophy of people management that emphasised autonomy, participation and learning.

There is now a considerable body of literature on how the ways people are managed at work affects their motivation and their productivity. More recently, the emphasis has moved away from a preoccupation with people management practices towards a wider appreciation of what organisations intend and what employees believe. And yet it is still the case that relatively few organisations operate what might be termed High Performance Systems or approaches. Something stops wider uptake and this workshop explores both the arguments for and the potential barriers against adoption.

Some of the questions that will be asked include:

The question is no longer why should organisations adopt high performance approaches but why don’t they?
Just what gets organisations started and how do they get a high performance approach embedded?
What are the barriers that get in the way of high performance working?

Why should people attend?

The aim of this event is to provide our partners with insights to inform their own organisation’s practice and an opportunity to learn the views of others through a lively and provocative debate.

This event is exclusively for partners with The Work Foundation

and there is no fee to attend.

To reserve your place on this event, please email partnership@theworkfoundation.com and include your name, company, job title, email address and telephone number.

A 2020 Future for Manu-Services

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:41:09 GMT

Partner Seminar:

A 2020 Future for Manu-Services

The Event

Across the OECD, manufacturing firms are integrating high value services with advanced manufacturing to secure competitive advantage. In the US 60 per cent of manufacturing firms have taken this route compared with just 1 per cent in China. Yet the evidence suggests that some findings struggle to realise the full benefits.

This event will explore how organisations can successfully adapt to this business model and what role public policy could have in helping them do so.

This event is exclusively for partners with The Work Foundation and there is no fee to attend.

To reserve your place on this event, please email partnership@theworkfoundation.com and include your name, company, job title, email address and telephone number.