Events Calendar

Thursday 15 May 2008
The Work Foundation, 21 Palmer Street, London
8:30 - 12:30

Employment Law Seminar - Re-organisation and Redundancy

Most organisations find themselves re-organising to meet the changing demands of the commercial environment or to increase efficiency.  This workshop reviews the legal position and looks at ways in which flexibility may be improved.  Some re-organisations involve redundancies.  Recent decisions have made it even more imperative that the correct procedure is followed.  The punishment for failing to comply fully with collective consultation is 90 days pay per employee concerned - even if the mandatory consultation period was only 30 days.

This event will be delivered by Olga Aikin, Aikin Driver Partnership.

Cost: Partners = £135 + VAT
Non-partners = £185 + VAT

This employment law seminar is open to partners, principal partners and non-partners of The Work Foundation.  For further information, including prices or to register please email  events@theworkfoundation.com or call James Green on 020 7976 3505

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21-22 May,
The Work Foundation, 21 Palmer Street
London

Innovation Practices for the Apex Organisation

Build compelling value for your business and customers

2 day workshop

We have invited Herman Gyr, one of the West Coast’s leading thinkers and creative practitioners and his business partner Laszlo Gyorffy to share with us the innovation best practices they have built from their experiences working at—and with—some of the most innovative companies in
the world. Whilst innovation is seen as a route to competitive advantage, most businesses do not have
clearly defined innovation processes.

This workshop is designed for chief executives, directors,
business leaders and senior managers interested in learning how a structured approach to innovation can help them respond to the changing and increasingly complex consumer
demands.

Delegates will be drawn mainly from our partner organisations, some places are available for non-partners.

Brochure (pdf 126kb)

Apex Booking Form 

For more information please contact Fiona Pandit, telephone 020 7976 3561

Wednesday 4 June 2008
The Work Foundation, 21 Palmer Street, London
8:30 - 10:30

Organisational design as a solution for complexity

The time has come to take a new look at the art of organisation design.  Leaving behind memories of boxes and lines and "straight-jacket" role descriptions, leaders are rethinking how to respond to complexity with new approaches to organisational design.

This session brings together our current thinking about managing in the knowledge economy and how a creative application of organisation design can align those responsible for creating and marshalling the increasingly valuable intangibles of production.  

This event will be delivered by Lynne Thomas, Director of Practice at The Work Foundation.

This partner event workshop is open to partners and principal partners of The Work Foundation.  For further information or to register please email  events@theworkfoundation.com  or call James Green on 020 7976 3505

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Wednesday 11 June 2008
The Work Foundation, 21 Palmer Street, London
9:00 - 16:30

Healthy Work: Productive Workplaces?

Dame Carol Black will address this conference which will explore the progress which Government and Employers have made towards creating healthy and more productive workplaces.  It will examine why and how the UK's workplaces can become the focus for improving health, well-being and productivity of the working age population.

Workplace health and well-being is a central focus of the Good Work campaign which preoccupies The Work Foundation this year.  The conference will discuss the evidence found by our research and that of others and case studies will demonstrate how this can work in organisation.

Other speakers include:

• Professor Gordon Waddell,
• Dr John Ballard, Occupational Health [at work],
• Dr Jenny Leeser, BUPA and
• Dr Bob Grove, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.
• Steve Bevan, Director of Research, The Work Foundation
• Chair:  Stephen Overell, Associate Director, The Work Foundation.

For further information on issues the conference will cover or to reserve a place,  please email jgreen@theworkfoundation.com  or fill in this form

Cost: Partners = £345 + VAT
non-partners = £425 + VAT.

To find out more about partnership of The Work Foundation please  partnership@theworkfoundation.com  or call James Green on 020 7976 3505

Wednesday 18 June 2008
08:00 for 08:30 - 09:30

Meet the Cabinet - Rt Hon James Purnell - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

This is one in a series of 'in conversations' between Will Hutton, CEO of The Work Foundation and members of the Cabinet. 

James Purnell was appointed Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in January 2008.  He was previously Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, a position he took in June 2007 as a member of Gordon Brown's first Cabinet.  Prior to this, he was Minister of State for Pensions Reform at the Department for Work and Pensions.

Fees: Partner = £30 + VAT
Non-partner = £55 + VAT

N.B. All fees go directly to The Work Foundation to cover the administrative and refreshment costs attached to this series.  Our speakers receive no fees from us.

This seminar is open to principal partners, partners and non-partners of The Work Foundation.  For further information including fees, or to register please email  events@theworkfoundation.com  or call James Green on 020 7976 3505

Thursday 19 June 2008
The Work Foundation, 21 Palmer Street, London
8:30 - 12:30

Employment Law Seminar - Temporary and Agency Workers

Temporary and agency workers are often used to meet peaks in demand or to replace employees such as those who are on sick or maternity leave.  Where the need is frequent the employer may set up a bank of staff.  These may be sensible arrangements, but the law relating to these workers is far from clear.  There is no clear definition of a temporary or casual worker.  The law on the position of agency workers is in a state of complete flux, sometimes they are the employee of the end user - but in others they are not.

This event will be delivered by Olga Aikin, Aikin Driver Partnership.

Cost: Partners = £135 + VAT
Non-partners = £185 + VAT

This employment law seminar is open to partners, principal partners and non-partners of The Work Foundation.  For further information, including prices or to register please email  events@theworkfoundation.com  or call James Green on 020 7976 3505

Find out more (pdf 213kb)

Tuesday 24 June 2008
The Work Foundation, 21 Palmer Street, London
9:00 - 16:30

Managing Complexity, Embracing Risk

The Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP, Minister for the Olympics and Minister for London (Paymaster General) will address this conference which will explore how organisations can manage complexity and risk.  The event will look at both the management of complex projects and also managing cultural complexity and cultural change.  What should top teams do when facing change?  How does multi-agency working deliver results in both the public and private sectors?

Risk is a fact of life for those engaged in complex projects.  The conference will show how this need not be a bad thing and embracing risk may ultimately be the best strategy for its management.

Other confirmed speakers include Eric Bonabeau, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer, Icosystem Corporation , Caspar Berry, professional poker player and entrepreneur and Paul Ormerod, author of Why Most Things Fail. 
This event will be chaired by Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA.   

Case study illustrations are to be confirmed along with full speaker line-up and further details will appear here. 

Wednesday 25 June 2008
8:00 for 8:30 - 9:30

Meet the Cabinet - Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP - Chancellor of the Exchequer

This is one in a series of 'in conversations' between Will Hutton, CEO of The Work Foundation and members of the Cabinet. 

Alistair Darling is Britain's second Chancellor since Labour took office in 1997.  Alongside the Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary, the Chancellor is one of the four great offices of state in the British Cabinet, and in recent times has come to be the most powerful office in British politics after the Prime Minister.  But what is it like to take on this organisation from such a long serving and well-acclaimed predecessor?  And how does a leading politician manage his ministerial and political commitments?

Fees: Partner = £30 + VAT
Non-partner = £55 + VAT

N.B. All fees go directly to The Work Foundation to cover the administrative and refreshment costs attached to this series.  Our speakers receive no fees from us.

This seminar is open to principal partners, partners and non-partners of The Work Foundation.  For further information including fees, or to register please email  events@theworkfoundation.com  or call James Green on 020 7976 3505

Wednesday 16 July 2008

Ideopolis Conference 2008 - Successful cities in a changing economy

Building on The Work Foundation's ground-breaking research on the changing economy and its impact on cities, this conference will share the latest research on how different cities can thrive in the knowledge economy, bringing experts together to debate what the changing economy means for the future of cities.

Full details here