UKWON

THE UK WORK ORGANISATION NETWORK

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Dialogue

Dialogue

UKWON creates opportunities for people from diverse backgrounds and perspectives to share ideas and experiences, and to work together in building effective and sustainable organisations.

UKWON Forums are open to all, engaging managers, employees, trade union representatives, researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders in sharing knowledge and experience on a regular basis. Find out more here.

You can discover some of UKWON's other activities below:

Work and Workplaces in 2020

UKWON’s Advisory Board is a unique combination of employers’ organisations, trade unions, public agencies, professional institutions and universities. This diversity of interests and expertise offers opportunities to create a multi-voiced perspective on the future to guide the strategies of key actors and to identify possibilities for collaborative action. In 2011 the Advisory Board agreed to establish a Working Group on Work and Workplaces in 2020 drawing on a wide range of research and practice as well as dialogue with key stakeholders. A series of dialogue seminars is being hosted alternately by the CBI and TUC, leading to the publication of a report by Easter 2012.

The report will:

• Analyse the impact of factors that will shape the future of employment relations, work and organisations over the next decade.

• Identify competing scenarios.

• Explore key themes, for example:

·         the organisational implications of changing patterns of competition and public service provision;

·         the relationship between individualism and collectivism;

·         new forms of collectivism, especially for workers in a-typical employment;

·         the relationship between representative and direct participation in workplaces;

·         new roles for social partners as “knowledgeable participants” in change.

• Define emerging roles and dilemmas for social partners, public policy and other actors.

More information can be found here. Please contact us if you have perspectives that you would like to contribute.

UKWON's Employee Engagement Network

Welcome to the Engagement Network, UKWON’s programme of free events designed to share knowledge and experience of building an engaged workforce. Last year saw the very successful launch of the Network with events hosted by Boots and Specsavers involving more than forty companies. Reports of these meetings can be found by clicking on the links.

Our 2012 programme includes events led by Centrica, NextiraOne, The Lindum Group and Whitbread, four companies with impressive stories to tell about how to engage employees in innovation, improvement and performance enhancement. Full details can be found here or you can book now.

UKWON previously ran networks for senior managers in Bristol and Nottingham. Find out what they discussed here.

UKWON Masterclasses - highly interactive events supporting workplace change

Drawing on our international panel of experts and our large network of practitioners, UKWON can design and deliver highly interactive events for those involved in workplace change and innovation.

Key topics include:
• employee and organisational resilience in times of change
• employee engagement
• leadership and empowerment
• high involvement innovation
• the creative workplace
• the future of work and organisations.

We can organise events which last from three hours to three days, all of which are designed to raise participants’ awareness of leading-edge practice while providing them with practical approaches to the design and implementation of change.

Audiences include individual companies and organisations, networks and membership bodies.

Professor Peter Totterdill, Joint Chief Executive of UKWON, has recently led two Masterclasses in Dublin, one on the future of work and organisations and one on innovation and creativity.

Learn more about Peter’s Masterclasses