Transcript Transformational Leadership

CBI
Employment Trends Survey
2007
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Overview
10th Report covering the Public and Private
Sectors – research carried out in May 2007
• 507 respondents – 5% response
• Respondents employ 1.1 million people
• Wide spread of responses across sectors
• 42% responses from service sector
• 27% responses from manufacturing
• 19% responses from public sector
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Overview
Respondents by company size
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11%
16%
22%
44%
7%
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Less than 50 people
50 to 99 people
200 to 499 people
500 to 4,999 people
5,000 plus people
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Key Findings
• People management is central to
business performance
• Employers are concerned about the
change in Labour leadership
• Labour market flexibility is a key
business priority
• Low confidence in the employment
tribunal system
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Key Findings
• Employers are committed to diversity in
the workplace
• Young people must leave education with
basic and employability skills
• Employers see training as a priority,
with an increased need for higher skills
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Getting the best out of people
• Effective people management seen as
the most important factor for business
competitiveness
• Good management skills seen as the
most important HR factor at present
and in the future
• This is closely followed by multi-skilled
teams and skills utilisation
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Flexibility is a key business priority
• Flexible working is offered by majority
of respondents. At least one option and
two thirds offered at least three
• Requests for flexibility are very high
but only half respondents give everyone
this as a right
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Flexibility is a key business priority
• Most respondents experience a positive
impact especially in terms of employee
relations, recruitment and retention
BUT growing numbers see a negative
impact on labour costs
• EU legislation an issue. Respondents
feel that individual opt out from the
Working Time Directive is crucial
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Flexibility is a key business priority
• Agency workers provide flexibility
which would be undermined by EU
action
• Economic migration eases skills and
labour shortages
• Respondents are committed to
improving the integration of migrant
workers
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Confidence in ET system remains low
• Half of the respondents see it as
ineffective in handling disputes
• Firms end up settling more than three
quarter of claims DESPITE advice that
they are likely to win
• Nearly half of respondents believe that
the number of weak and vexatious
claims has increased in the last year
• Acas is doing a good job
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Commitment to diversity
• Almost all respondents are taking action
• A third take positive action to improve
equality but many are confused about
the difference between positive action
and positive discrimination
• Commitment to community cohesion –
half support local community events
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Commitment to diversity
• Lack of applicants from disadvantaged
groups remains an obstacle to achieving a
more diverse workforce for two thirds of
respondents
• Age legislation has led employers to
review retirement, recruitment and
length of service benefits
• Over a quarter of respondents have
conducted an equal pay audit
• 46% of larger firms have done this
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Young people’s skills
• Nearly nine out of ten respondents believe
that the government’s top priority should
be to ensure young people leave school
with basic literacy and numeracy
• Over half of the respondents are
dissatisfied with these skills
• Young people have excellent IT skills and
are confident using these at work
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Young people’s skills
• Half of respondents are concerned about
employability skills and just over 25% are
dissatisfied with these skills in graduates
• A third of respondents identified that the
government should increase the number
of graduates in science, technology,
engineering and maths as a top priority
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Training is a priority
• Majority of employers provide on job
training
• Over half of respondents are keen to
accredit their own in-house training as
qualifications
• Greatest demand from respondents is for
the higher level and leadership skills.
These are seen as key drivers of future
competitiveness
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What do you think?
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