The full results of the sixth national survey of employment relations in Britain has now been published as Employment Relations: In the Shadow of Recession. It examines the state of employment relations in 2011, how this has changed since the last survey in 2004, and the role the recession has played in shaping employees’ experiences of work, compelling changes to employment practices and influencing the character of the employment relationship. The survey interviewed managers, worker representatives and employees in the same workplaces, covering almost 2,700 workplaces in 2011. (Ref. 130747)
Amongst the voluminous findings are that there has been a stabilisation of human resource managers at the workplace level. This accounts for – and facilitates – the increase in the devolution of management responsibility at the workplace level over a number of issues such as performance appraisals (60% carried out at the workplace level in 2004, 74% in 2011), in the administration of health and safety (42% in 2004, 63% in 2011) and similar rises for the handling of grievances and equal opportun
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