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  • Employee outlook
    Our quarterly surveys of employee attitudes explore the fast-changing world of work and emerging challenges for individuals, employers and policy-makers. They're based on a representative sample of more than 3,000 people in employment in the UK.
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  • Creating an engaged workforce
    This report from the Kingston Employee Engagement Consortium explores differences in engagement across organisational contexts and examines how different types of employee engage in their work. It looks at drivers and outcomes of engagement and introduces a new model.
  • An HR director's guide to employee engagement
    This discussion paper is aimed at senior HR professionals and others who are considering an employee engagement framework as part of their effective people management policies.
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  • Annual surveys
    Our long-running series of employee attitude and engagement surveys provided an independent picture of the experience of work in Britain. The report of the last of the annual surveys was published in December 2006 as Working Life: Employee attitudes and engagement 2006. This can be ordered from the CIPD Bookstore
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    We produced two short free papers based on the report. The survey report How engaged are British employees? sets out the key findings, and comments on the demographic and sector differences and on the management implications 
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    In Reflections on Employee Engagement leading commentators in the field provide additional perspectives on the research findings.
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    In the preceding years, we published a series of annual surveys looking at different aspects of the psychological contract. These are no longer in print, but are available for loan to CIPD members from our Library.
  • Employee well-being and the psychological contract
    • Employer perceptions of the psychological contract
  • Pressure at work and the psychological contract 
  • Public- and private-sector perspectives on the psychological contract
  • The psychological contract in the public sector
  • Organisational change and the psychological contract
  •  Fairness at work and the psychological contract
  •  Employee motivation and the psychological contract
     
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  • In October 2005 we produced a short paper Managing Change: the role of the psychological contract. This draws on the evidence from the literature to address key questions around the relationship between change and the psychological contract.
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  • A practical tool to assess employee attitudes has been developed. Managing the psychological contract: taking the temperature will help you measure the state of the employee relationship.
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