Reports the main findings from the 2004 workplace employment relations survey (WERS 2004) conducted by the DTI, Acas, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Policy Studies Institute. This fifth survey in the series provides a nationally representative account of the state of employment...

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1. This report seeks to identify the key drivers of business success and failure through a review of existing literature. The review is intended to inform future work undertaken by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) to evaluate the impact of government interventions on the...

There is little quantitative data on the employment practices of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs), despite the fact that 94 per cent of all private sector firms in the UK have less than 250 employees. This study uses the nationally representative 2004Workplace Employment Relations Survey...

Inside the Workplace provides an in-depth exploration of the findings from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS 2004), the fifth in the series of surveys conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Advisory,...

First Findings from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study

Presentation at Work, Pensions and Labour Economics Study Group Annual Conference, University of Sheffield.

This report was commissioned by Acas to assist them in the development of structured employee attitude surveys. The project identified priority question areas for Acas surveys and, through reference to existing social surveys, created a Ôquestion bank' of field-tested questions. Advice was...

This report uses the Fair Treatment at Work Survey 2008 to investigate the characteristics which make employees more or less vulnerable to adverse treatment in the workplace. The report finds that certain features of the external labour market, the product market, the employing organisation and...