Labor and employment
Research Topic
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Research topics below this in the hierarchy
- Labor systems
- Labor disputes. Strikes and lockouts
- Industrial arbitration. Mediation and conciliation
- Employee participation in management. Employee ownership. Industrial democracy. Works councils
- Trade unions. Labor unions. Workers' associations
- Employers' associations
- Industrial sociology. Social conditions of labor
- Industrial relations
- Cost and standard of living
- Social insurance. Social security. Pension
- Vocational rehabilitation. Employment of people with disabilities
- Industrial hygiene. Industrial welfare
- Labor policy. Labor and the state
- Labor in politics. Political activity of the working class
- Professions (General). Professional employees
- Hours of labor. Including overtime, shift work, sick leave, vacations
- Labor market. Labor supply. Labor demand. Including unemployment, manpower policy, occupational training, employment agencies
- Classes of labor. Including women, children, students, middle aged and older persons, minorities
- Wages and benefits
- Employment statistics
- Human resources
- Productivity
- Parental leave
- Public employees
- Retirement
- Unemployment
Research topics above this in the hierarchy
Research problems linked to this topic
- In the future, who will decide on the responsibility for 'risk' in a workplace that is
becoming increasingly complex?
- Managing careers - Where the need for people/human capital endures, how do we build fulfilling Defence careers, particularly in scarce skill disciplines where traditional military hierarchies, structures and approaches do not attract people with the skills we need for the future? How do we encourage a broader range of people to work in challenging roles and environments?
- • What are the drivers, barriers, costs, and benefits of movements across our workforces?
- Increasing the recruitment, retention and progression of high quality staff, particularly those with protected characteristics
- Analyse and explain the effectiveness of interventions for increasing recruitment and retention across AHT sectors.
- Conditions and wages of low-skilled migrant workers compared with native employees.
- To what extent is housing tenure (e.g. social rented, private rented, home ownership etc) driven by choice? What drives people’s choices? For example, is private renting seen as a ‘stepping-stone’ to home ownership? And how does this vary across different geographical areas?
- What initiatives are in place to prevent or address BHD and how effective are these in tackling BHD in the sector.
- What are the career pathways and recruitment journeys into the judiciary? How do protected characteristics and social mobility affect recruitment?