Britons see civil servants as bureaucratic, political and stuck in their ways, but also professional. Few see them as lazy – but few seem them as innovative or accessible either.
An international survey conducted by MORI for Manpower reveals what jobseekers in 15 EMEA (Europe Middle-East & Africa) countries want from their employers, what their fears are for the future and what the trends are in the world of work.
The majority of Conservative MPs dismiss economic migration as a way of plugging UK skills gaps, according to new MORI research for Skills for Business.
Labour backbenchers do not believe that employers are best placed to identify the education and skills the UK needs, according to a major survey published today.
Just under half of Liberal Democrats believe limited skills in the UK workforce are constraining employers from producing more complex products or better services, according to new research from the MORI Reputation Centre. The same proportion disagrees.
MORI Social Research Institute and The Work Foundation have launched the first Workers' Index, the start of an ongoing series to monitor trends in the workplace. The results show that more workers in the private sector than in the public sector believe that their organisations know where they are going and feel pride in what their organisation delivers to customers and clients.
There is considerable public demand for restrictions on smoking in workplaces and public places in South Yorkshire, according to a MORI Social Research Institute survey.
According to a survey conducted by MORI on behalf of BT, 77% of IT directors questioned at financial services firms in the USA, continental Europe and the UK do not know, or cannot calculate, the total cost of ownership (TCO) for their current message management infrastructure. This is despite the growing reliance on electronic communication channels.
Only a third (34%) of UK employees view their manager as a role model, according to research by MORI on behalf of Investors In People. Among those who regard their boss as a role model, managers are much more likely to adopt inclusive methods such as consulting staff during decision making (85%), sharing information (82%) and developing ideas and plans (81%).
Many of Britain's top business people showed signs of ambition whilst still at school, according to new research from MORI. The survey has been released as part of the DDI's report 'The Leading Edge: Leadership potential from the classroom to the boardroom'. Among the 105 business leaders interviewed by MORI, 70% had been school prefects, half (50%) had captained their sports teams, almost a third (30%) had been heads or deputy heads of school and a similar number had been leaders of youth groups outside school such as the Scouts or Brownies.
