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Along with colleagues David Guest from King鈥檚 College London and Angie Knox from Sydney University, IER鈥檚 Chris Warhurst has published a journal virtual special issue that re-evaluates classic articles on the quality of working life published in Human Relations over the past 50 years. Read more about the articles and the introduction to the special issue here.

In 2017, as part of its programme of work promoting better working lives, the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) commissioned IER to produce two reports on job quality. The first report focused on Understanding and Measuring Job Quality; the second on Indicators of Job Quality. The IER team was led by Professor Chris Warhurst and comprised Sally Wright, Dr Clare Lyonette and, for the second report, Dr Sudipa Sarkar. Both reports were published by the . The research was used by the CIPD in its consultation submission to the 2017 UK Government鈥檚 Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices. The research also helped inform the development of a new UK Working Lives survey for the CIPD. Subsequent to the completion of the research, Dr Sarkar was seconded to the CIPD to assist with the development of the new survey, which was administered by YouGov over winter 2017-18.

This conference organised jointly by the , 果冻传媒 IER, the , and the will bring together stakeholders from national government departments, cities, Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) as well as business, NGOs and research institutions to discuss the key challenges facing the United Kingdom in building more and better quality jobs. The will focus on discussing the key challenges and opportunities from Brexit and sharing local solutions as well as international lessons from OECD countries on how effective skills policies can foster productivity and inclusive growth. at The Shard on Thursday 2 November 2017.

Based on new statistical analysis from its Horizon 2020 project ‘QuInnE’, the team have just published an that calculates and compares innovation, job quality and employment outcomes for the EU and its Members states. It shows that the UK is 'medium-high' on job quality, with high wages but also high part-time and short part-time working. The UK is 'medium-high' on innovation: output indicators at the firm level are high but levels of innovation enablers at the national and employee levels are lower. The UK is 'high-high' on employment performance, with a high level of employment for the prime-age population (25 to 54 years) and relatively high levels of employment for vulnerable groups. Further details of , please contact ier at warwick dot ac dot uk.

As part of the Levering Workplace Innovation project funded by the Faculty of Social Sciences’ Impact Accelerator Account, organised a seminar for policymakers at the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. It examined ways to improve the innovative capacity of firms. She was joined as a presenter at the seminar by and of Aalborg University in Denmark. The seminar focused on encouraging a change in current thinking about what best levers innovation, highlighting that firms that combine two approaches – the current one based on science, technology and R&D, the other based on progressive ways to manage and organise employees at the workplace-level – have five times greater product innovation.