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Faith In The Leadership Abilities Of Senior Managers Has Declined, Research Suggests
Confidence in the leadership abilities of senior managers has declined since the start of 2005, the latest results of The Worker's Index, a bi-annual survey of employees' feelings and attitudes towards work, reveals today.
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Local Government Reputation Campaign
Local government plays a huge role in people's lives and, according to the Treasury, is the most efficient part of the public sector making 1632.6m a day in savings. So why is it that public satisfaction of council services is improving, but the public perception of councils is not?
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Health Service Workers Are The Gloomiest Staff In The Public Services
Health service workers are markedly more disillusioned with their jobs and have less faith in their leaders than their counterparts in the education and local government sectors.
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Deloitte / Government Delivery Index
It appears that the British public are continuing to be gloomy about the future of the economy and public services, according to the latest Deloitte/Ipsos Government Delivery Index. Expectations among the public were generally at a historic low in early 2006, and this level of pessimism has broadly been maintained in the months since.
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Cultural And Tourism Marketing Survey
In 2004, London Calling Arts commissioned Ipsos to conduct a survey to explore current perceptions of marketing in the arts and possible future trends.
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The Public And Privatised Rail
After 10 years of privatised rail, the British public are still to be convinced that a train journey is better value for money or safer than under British Rail. New research[1] from Ipsos shows that half (52%) of British people say they have a favourable view of the rail sector as a whole, while 30% are unfavourable. As National Passenger statistics show the highest level of customer satisfaction since Hatfield, in terms of the overall quality of the service, more than a quarter (28%) feel the service is better now than when it was nationalised compared to one in five (21%) who feel it is worse.
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Attitudes Towards Nuclear Energy And Climate Change
As the Government begins its major review on the future of energy, an extensive survey published today (17th January) of the British public's attitudes towards future energy options shows that just over 50% may be prepared to accept new nuclear power stations if it would help to tackle climate change. But few actively prefer the nuclear option over alternatives such as renewable sources and greater energy efficiency. Most people believe that promoting renewable energy sources (78%), and reducing energy use through lifestyle changes and energy efficiency (76%) are better ways of tackling climate change than nuclear power.
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'Choice? What Choice?' Say Patients
Most people aged 40+ (around three in four) are willing to go to either NHS or private hospitals so long as they receive assurances over minimum standards of care, a MORI survey conducted for the Dept of Health, just publicly released, shows. However, awareness among this population group about the much heralded 'patient choice' agenda is currently very low: only four per cent say they know 'a great deal' about patient choice, and 15% 'a fair amount'. Conversely, two in five (41%) say they know absolutely nothing about choice in healthcare, with 39% knowing 'just a little' about it.
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Captains Of Industry Survey
Once again, for sixth time, John Browne, Lord Browne of Madingley, has been voted by his corporate peers as the most impressive business person in Britain. This puts John Browne back in pole position, after last year losing out to Tesco's Chairman Sir Terry Leahy.
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Growing Dissatisfaction Amongst Public Sector Workers
Public sector workers are nearly three times as likely to be critics of the services they provide as private sector workers — and public sector dissatisfaction has increased over the course of 2005.