• I enjoyed the opportunity to think about issues that affect my daily work but that normally don’t get any critical consideration because I’m too busy!
    Jim Bell, Ove Arup and Partners Ltd
  • Opportunity to play around with ideas, with others and think outside the box. Excellent realistic tools that can be taken back and used easily to encourage innovation.
    Sally Swift, Medirep
  • Characteristics of an effective team especially useful. Now understanding why teams I’ve worked on in the past haven’t worked!
    Alison Hart, Department of Work and Pensions
  • Good mix of academic view, solicitor and real life examples.
    Louise Wills, School Trends
  • Clear content, relevant. Learnt the importance of adding real value at the concept stage.
    Dave Hughes, BT Local Business
  • Had the chance to think about value in relation to supply chain of social services, think about collaboration in health and social care, about meeting customer expectations. Will consider new care pathways as opportunities to add value throughout the process of assessment and delivery.
    Janet Burke, Sheffield City Council
  • Brilliant presentation skills and methods of discussion. Very useful to begin thinking about potential changes.
    South Yorkshire Police
  • An interactive session which was excellent in challenging assumptions, thank you.
    Pamela Mathieson (PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP)
  • Great structuring of a fascinating topic made very easy to understand
    Paul Kincell (Chartered Management Institute)
  • Lots of practical ideas to inspire change
    Maria Elliott, HR Manager, Maher Limited

News

Research methods training from IWP’s statistical consultancy arm, Figure It Out; June 2009

Posted on Jan 15, 2009

In late June 2009, Figure it Out will be running another series of its popular training courses focusing on advanced statistical methodologies. These small group one-day events offer social scientists from a range of backgrounds and disciplines the chance to consolidate and improve their data analysis skills.

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9th March - Change Management Workshop - A Complete Toolkit To Help You Manage Change Successfully

Posted on Dec 11, 2008

All the evidence shows that if you want real and lasting change within the workplace, you need people’s buy-in. But how do you get a critical mass of support for change? How can you turn resistance into a positive force? And how do you maintain productivity whilst also implementing the change?

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IWP at the Heart of Policy Design

Posted on Oct 29, 2008

The Department of Health recently announced that it wants emergency angioplasty treatment for heart attacks available for everyone in England within the next three years. This is a core element of its revisions to the guidelines for the treatment of heart attacks published and presented at the Primary Angioplasty meeting held in Manchester on the 20th October 2008.
Research conducted by ScHaRR and the IWP has been a major input to the drafting of the guidelines.

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IWP at the 2008 Annual Academy of Management Meeting, Anaheim, California

Posted on Sep 30, 2008

Stephen Wood (with Lilian M. de Menezes, Cass Business School. City University) presented a paper entitled “High Involvement Management, Work Enrichment, Employee Voice and Well-being”. It was in a symposium on “Building HRM Systems for High Involvement, High Performance Work Environments”. Karen Niven, and her co-authors Peter Totterdell and David Holman also presented their paper, ‘Deliberately Influencing Others’ Affect in Organizational Networks’, as part of a symposium about emotions and social networks at work. The symposium was organized by Hyoung Koo Moon (Korea University Business School) and Seung-Yoon Rhee (KAIST Business School).

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IWP Conference 2008

Posted on Sep 30, 2008

The IWP conference, Work, well-being, and performance: New perspectives for the modern workforce, was held on 18th – 20th June 2008 in the St Paul’s hotel in the heart of Sheffield city centre. The main sponsor was Pearn Kandola.

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