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2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS 2004) Grants Fund

The Fund is administered by the Employment Market Analysis and Research branch (EMAR) and the Management, Leadership and Skills Unit (MLSU).

A call for proposals was made in November 2005. The call has now closed. Proposals were selected for their contribution to the evidence base, and their relevance to government policy. We were interested in funding papers around the following themes:

• High Performance Workplaces;
• Work-life Balance;
• Information and Consultation;
• Training;
• Management and Leadership;
• Employee Outcomes;
• Computer use; and,
• Employee Representatives.

Selection criteria

Proposals were selected according to the following criteria:

• Papers focusing on the above-mentioned policy themes;
• Papers undertaking sophisticated data analyses of the following datasets: Panel Survey, Financial Performance Questionnaire and/or the Survey of Employee Representatives;
• Multi-authored papers;
• Proposals including junior researchers, especially those new to WERS;
• Papers supplementing WERS analyses with analyses of other datasets, and/or linking the WERS datasets with other datasets such as the Annual Business Inquiry or the longitudinal Annual Respondents Database;
• Publication track record of authors.

Successful bids

H. Bewley and A. Bryson, Policy Studies Institute, 'The effects of labour market re-regulation on employees'

A. Bryson and R. Freeman, Policy Studies Institute, 'Doing the right thing? Does fair share capitalist improve firm performance?'

A. Charlwood, A. Brown, C. Forde, D. Spencer, Leeds University, 'Changing job quality in Britain 1998-2004: Are jobs created by new workplaces 'better' than the jobs destroyed in workplace closure?'

A. Cox, M. Marchington and J. Suter, University of Manchester, 'Embedding the provision of information and consultation in the workplace: a longitudinal analysis of employee outcomes in WERS98 and 2004'

H. Gospel, H. Bewley, R. Peccei, and P. Willman, King's College London, 'Patterns of information disclosure and joint consultation in the UK - determinants and outcomes'

D. Guest and N. Conway, King's College London, 'Human Resource Management, employee attitudes and workplace performance'

J. Michie, M. Sheehan and A. Aljeffri, University of Birmingham, 'Human Resource Management practices, organisational outcomes and performance'

S. Moore, A. Tasiran and S. Jefferys, London Metropolitan University, 'The impact of employee representation upon workplace industrial relations outcomes'

P. Murphy, P. Latreille and M. Jones, University of Wales, Swansea, 'Training differences in the public and private sector: who gets it and what's it worth?'

S. Nadeem and H. Metcalf, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, 'Work-life balance policies in WERS 2004: what works, where and how?'

A. Pollert and Y. Li, London Metropolitan University, 'The unorganised worker in WERS 2004: socio-demographic attributes, workplace characteristics and job experience'

B. Rayton, University of Bath, 'The causes and consequences of Investors in People accreditation'

R. Saundry and V. Antcliff, University of Central Lancashire, 'Employee representation in grievance and discipline - making a difference?'

G. Whitehouse, M. Haynes and F. McDonald, University of Queensland, 'Re-assessing the 'family friendly' workplace: trends, influences and implications in Britain, 1998-2004'

More details
For more information about DTI's WERS 2004 Grants Fund please contact John McQueeney at DTI.