Other Research

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Northern Ireland 2002
This is the first regional GEM report for Northern Ireland. Participants in what is now the largest research project in entrepreneurship in the world, place Northern Ireland in the global centre for all things entrepreneurial.
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Skills and Training Needs in the Northern Ireland Tourism and Hospitality Industry
This report was commissioned by the Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) in conjunction with the Tourism Training Trust (TTT) to identify the skills and training needs of the Tourism and Hospitality industry. The study was carried out by McIver Consulting.

The report is the fourth in a planned series of studies examining priority skills areas, as identified by the Skills Task Force, where skill shortages or deficiencies could constrain further development and growth in that sector and also adversely affect growth of the Northern Ireland economy.
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Lifting the Barriers to Growth in UK Small Businesses
This report presents the results of the FSB research project Lifting the Barriers to Growth in UK Small Business. Responses were received from 18,561 members, a response rate of 14%.

The study builds on the previous FSB study Barriers to Survival and Growth in UK Small Firms, published in October 2000. Nearly a quarter (24%) of respondents to the FSB 2000 study also participated in this survey.
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Government Response to the Report of the Council for Excellence in Management and Leadership - September 2002
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This response is on behalf of government across the UK. All relevant UK government departments and the Devolved Administrations have been consulted.
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Challenges of Leadership - The Life & Times of the CEO

3i and Penna Sanders & Sidney commissioned Cranfield School of Management to carry out independent research into the tenure and role of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and, in particular, to compare the role in quoted and unquoted companies.

The scope of the research, which was conducted in February and March 1999, was the largest 350 quoted companies and the largest 100 unquoted companies in the UK.

For the research, the chief executives of a number of the UK's top publicly quoted and private companies were interviewed and they spoke frankly to us about the challenges they face. It's tough at the top but, overall, they like it there. However, the tougher it is, the shorter the CEO's tenure, and it is shortest in the publicly quoted sector where the pressures imposed by investors and the media are at their greatest.

This executive summary offers a snapshot of lenght of tenure, the role of equity in retention, the pressures faced by CEO's now and in the future; and it ends with advice for new appointees to the role of Chief Executive. Click here for summary

Working Towards Skills - Perspectives on Workforce Development - 2002
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This report provides a commentary on how workforce development has emerged as a major government priority, and on related initiatives and interventions attempting to promote it. It concentrates on the potential for workforce development in Smes, drawing the views of employers and employees of small companies.

The report also suggests criteria for good practice in the development of support for workforce development in Smes. As such, the report should be of interest to policy makers and providers of support for small business, as well as providers of post-16 education and training.
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Productivity and Competitiveness Indicator Update 2002 - Executive Summary
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The Competitiveness Indicators were first published in 1999 to benchmark the UK's progress in driving up productivity and competitiveness. The indicators provide a framework for addressing the UK's strengths and weaknesses, and help to inform policy development and priority setting.
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Report of the Northern Ireland Skills Taskforce
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This report seeks to establish the skills needs of the Northern Ireland economy, examine current education and training provision in Northern Ireland and make recommendations for improvement.
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The Northern Ireland Skills Monitoring Survey 2000
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The survey was designed to provide a corporate snapshot of the current skill needs of Northern Ireland employers in the non-agricultural private sectors.
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A Study of the Northern Ireland Labour Market for IT Skills
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This report comprises of two studies carried out as a background to the Skills Task Forces discussion of the prospective supply/demand position for IT qualified personnel and its implications for skills policy.
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A Study of Labour Market Conditions in the Northern Ireland Electronics Industry
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The report contains two related studies. The first being the Employer Level Evidence of Skills Shortages in the Northern Ireland Electronics Industry and the second being the Projected Labour Market Imbalances in the Northern Ireland Electronics Industry 2001 - 2005.
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Small Business Skills Assessment 2002
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The Small Business Skills Assessment report has two objectives. First it seeks to offer guidance to policy makers and agencies responsible for education and training provision on the extent to which skills in small businesses need to be improved and how this may be achieved.

Secondly it seeks to provide a useful resource for those interested in skills issues in small businesses by bringing together a wide range of relevant statistics and research evidence into one document.
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Leadership and Management Excellence: Corporate Development Strategies, By Kim James, Cranfield School of Management
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Senior executives in organisations undertake leadership and management activities. Leadership involves activity that transforms an organisation. Such activities include creating a vision for the future, investing in that vision, clarifying the past and present status of the organisation and creating an idea about a future trajectory.
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Management Development Activity In Northern Ireland
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The Management and Leadership Network recognised that considerable research has been conducted in recent years to identify the management development needs in Northern Ireland. The Council concluded an analysis of this research would assist with establishing the current and future management development needs in Northern Ireland and to form the basis of a management development strategy. The research would not focus on initiating new studies but would draw conclusions based on the available secondary data.
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Joining Entrepreneurs in their World:
Improving Entrepreneurship, Management and Leadership in UK SME's
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Entrepreneurs emphasised the importance of people skills and strategic and analytical thinking abilities as the crucial qualitites for success. Task abilities such as financial skills and technical competence are important, but generally believed to be less fundamental to successful business development. In short, entrepreneurs want development opportunities to meet their needs.
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Review of Research on Workforce Development
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This paper briefly reviews some of the recent research on workforce development. Workforce development is defined as activity that increases the knowledge, skills, ability and capacity of individuals to participate effectively in the workplace, and thereby contribute to business performance.

Workforce development is of increasing importance because of its contribution to raising productivity and competitiveness. It helps overcome skills shortages, improve management and leadership, and contributes to the national drive to improve adult basic skills.
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Northern Ireland Economic Council:
The Capabilities and Innovation Perspective: The Way Ahead in Northern Ireland
by Michael H. Best, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Dec 2000
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Two factors lay behind the Council's decision to commission this monograph. First, despite numerous economic development strategies and massive public investment, Northern Ireland has failed to close the gap between its living standard and the average living standard for the United Kingdom.

Second, the economic landscape is itself unabated, but also there is now an emerging view that something more fundamental has changed with the appearance of a "new economy".
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