EMPLOYMENT
MARKET ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH (EMAR)
Events
MAXIMISING
POTENTIAL IN THE WORKPLACE
A DTI lunchtime seminar series, London, February to April 2005
Following
the successful 2004 seminar series, we are holding a second series of public
lunchtime seminars. We have invited speakers from think tanks, academia, and
the public sector to talk about employment relations, labour market and equality
issues under the theme ‘maximising potential in the workplace’. For more
details on the 11 seminars and related research events, please see the attached
pamphlet:
2005 Seminar Series
Please feel free to forward this to colleagues who may be
interested.
BOOKINGS
Attendance is free,
but registration at least 48 hours prior to the event is essential. A
place can be reserved by emailing your name, organisation, daytime contact phone
number and the seminar dates you wish to attend to:
emar@dti.gov.uk Please include the word “seminar” in the email subject
line.
SEMINAR
FORMAT
Refreshments will be
available from noon. The seminars start at 12.30pm sharp. The speaker
will give their presentation, followed by questions from the floor, and then a
buffet lunch from 1.30pm onward.
SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Wednesday 9 February 2005, 12-2pm (The
British Academy)
Hard labour: Parenting, family life and career
Speaker: Dr Caroline Gatrell, Lancaster University Management School
Download the PowerPoint presentation
Wednesday 16 February 2005, 12-2pm (The
British Academy)
Disorganisation: Why future organisations must 'loosen up'
Speaker: Paul Miller, Senior Researcher, Demos
Download the PowerPoint presentation
Wednesday 23 February 2005, 12-2pm (The
British Academy)
Tackling bullying at work
Speaker: Mandy Telford, Dignity at Work Campaign Coordinator, Amicus
Download the PowerPoint presentation
Thursday 3 March 2005, 12-2pm (The
British Academy)
Employee voice and organisational performance
Speakers: Stephen Bevan, Director of Research, and David Coats, Associate
Director for Policy, The Work Foundation
Download the PowerPoint presentation
Wednesday 9 March 2005, 12-2pm (The
British Academy)
Do regulatory reforms in product and labour markets promote employment?
Evidence from OECD countries
Speaker: Dr Giuseppe Nicoletti, Senior Economist, OECD, Paris
Download the PowerPoint presentation
Thursday 24 March 2005, 12-2pm (The
British Academy)
Making employee consultation work: why process matters
Speaker: Professor Phil Beaumont, School of Business and Management,
University of Glasgow
Download the PowerPoint presentation
Thursday 31 March 2005, 12-2pm (The
British Academy)
Which households benefit from the National Minimum Wage?
Speaker: Mark Bryan, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University
of Essex
Download the PowerPoint presentation
Wednesday 6 April 2005, 12-2pm (The
British Academy)
How flexible? Results of the second Flexible Working Employee Survey
Speakers: Heather Holt and Dr Heidi Grainger, Department of Trade and Industry
Thursday 14 April 2005, 12-2pm (The
British Academy)
Time's up for age discrimination: are employers ready, and what do workers
want?
Speaker: Dr Stephen McNair, Director, Centre for Research into the Older
Workforce, University of Surrey
Note: Attendance at this
event is by invitation. Those wishing to attend should contact EMAR to register
at least 24 hours prior to the event.
Friday 15 April 2005, 9am-11am
(note early start)
(DTI
Conference Centre)
State of the Unions– Launch of Trade Union Membership 2004
Speakers: Dr Heidi Grainger and Grant Fitzner, Department of
Trade and Industry
www.dti.gov.uk/er/emar/trade.htm
Thursday 21 April 2005, 12-2pm (DTI
Conference Centre)
The impact of employment regulations: What do we know?
Speakers: Professor Linda Dickens and Mark Hall, Industrial Relations
Research Unit, University of Warwick; Professor Stephen Wood, Institute of Work
Psychology, University of Sheffield
Note:
Attendance at this event is by invitation
EMPLOYMENT
MATTERS
A
lunchtime seminar series about employment relations and the world of work
Attendance
is free, but registration at least 24 hours prior to the event is essential.
A place can be reserved by emailing your name, organisation and a daytime
contact phone number to: emar@dti.gov.uk
Please indicate the dates of the seminar(s) you wish to attend.
Coffee
and tea will be available from noon. Seminars start at 12.30pm sharp and
conclude at 2pm. The speaker will give their presentation, followed by questions
from the floor, and then a buffet lunch.
For
more details on seminar topics please see attached leaflet:
Employment
Relations Seminar Series
Wednesday
25 February 2004 12.30-2pm (The
British Academy)
Employment matters: Successes, challenges and emerging issues
Speaker: Grant Fitzner,
Director of Employment Market Analysis and Research, DTI
Download
the PowerPoint presentation 
Wednesday
10 March 2004 12.30-2pm (The
British Academy)
Moving on up: Employee involvement at Delta Air
Dr Bruce Kaufman, Professor
of Economics, Georgia State University
Download
the PowerPoint presentation
Thursday
29 April 2004 12.30-2pm (DTI
Conference Centre)
Work-life diversity: Rising to new challenges
Speaker:
Alexandra Jones, Senior Researcher, The Work Foundation
Download the PowerPoint presentation
Download
notes on the PowerPoint presentation
(80.5Kb)
Wednesday
19 May 2004 12.30-2pm (The
British Academy)
The end of ageism?
Speaker: Dr Wendy Loretto,
Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies, University of Edinburgh
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the PowerPoint presentation
Thursday
27 May 2004 12.30-2pm (The
British Academy)
Sharing responsibility? The effects of Sweden's "Daddy
Month" reforms
Speaker: Dr John Ekberg,
Department of Economics, Stockholm University
Download the PowerPoint presentation
Wednesday
9 June 2004 12.30-2pm (DTI
Conference Centre)
ICT and the control revolution at work
Speaker: Dr Michael White,
Emeritus Fellow, Policy Studies Institute
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Tuesday
29 June 2004 12.30-2pm (DTI
Conference Centre)
Why efficiency is not enough: Employment relations with a human face
Speaker: Dr John W Budd,
Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Minnesota
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(1.14Mb)
New Directions in Labour
Market Flexibility Research
(116Kb) London, 26 November 2003
Download the Introduction
and overview. Grant Fitzner, Director, Employment Market Analysis and
Research, Department of Trade and Industry (PowerPoint presentation).
The papers presented were:
Unemployment flow in five OECD countries. Ronald Bachmann, Humbolt University
of Berlin
Download a PDF version of
this paper
(427Kb). Download
the PowerPoint presentation.
Worker-job matches, job mobility and, and real wage cyclicality. Robert A.
Hart, University of Stirling
Download
a PDF version of this paper
(300Kb). Download the PowerPoint presentation.
The economic impact of labour market flexibility
in the UK and its regions. Vassilis Monastiriotis,
Royal Holloway
Download a PDF version
of this paper
(435Kb). Download
the PowerPoint presentation.
Unemployment, labour market institutions and shocks. Luca Nunziata, Nuffield
College, Oxford
Download a PDF version of this paper
(498Kb). Download
the PowerPoint presentation.
Structural transformation and the deterioration of
European labor market outcomes. Richard Rogerson, Arizona State University
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(256Kb). Download
the presentation
(215Kb)
Gross job flows in Europe. Giovanna Vallanti, London School of Economics
Download a PDF version of
this paper
(168Kb). Download
the PowerPoint presentation.
Working Hours and Work-Life
Balance, London 24th
September 2003
The papers presented were:
The business context to long hours working. Terence
Hogarth, Institute for Employment Research.
Download the PowerPoint presentation.
Implementation of the Working Time Regulations:
follow-up study. Fiona Neathey, Institute for
Employment Studies. Download the PowerPoint presentation.
The Second Work-Life Balance Study: Results from the
Employer Survey. Stephen Woodland, National Center
for Social Research. Download the PowerPoint presentation.
SEMINAR VENUES
DTI
Conference Centre
1 Victoria Street
London SW1H 0ET
Nearest tube: St James's Park
The
British Academy
10 Carlton House Terrace
London SW1Y 5AH
Nearest tube: Piccadilly Circus or Charing Cross Station
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