Employment

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.

This is the third phase of research conducted by Ipsos on behalf of the National Federation of SubPostmasters looking at subpostmaster income.

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.

Purchasers get the 'morning after' feeling as competitive M&A market puts pressure on them to deliver benefits post-deal

NESTA Futurelab, a leading organisation in educational technology, commissioned Ipsos to conduct a survey investigating teachers' attitudes to mainstream computer games as part of their research project Teaching with Games, which is funded by Electronic Arts (EA).

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.

British businesses are being held back by managers who fail to get the best out of their staff, according to the latest Workers' Index published by MORI and The Work Foundation. Almost one in four employees (24%) say that they are not inspired by their bosses and just over a quarter (27%) say that senior managers fail to provide them with a clear vision.

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.