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Partnership Working

Partnership Working. The evidence base. Partnership working. What is partnership working? Principles of partnership working Benefits? Success factors? Challenges? Developing partnerships? Questions for PCTs and Care Trusts. Importance of partnership working for PCTs and Care Trusts.

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Partnership Working

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  1. Partnership Working The evidence base

  2. Partnership working • What is partnership working? • Principles of partnership working • Benefits? • Success factors? • Challenges? • Developing partnerships? • Questions for PCTs and Care Trusts

  3. Importance of partnership working for PCTs and Care Trusts • Improving Working Lives • Recruitment and retention • Shifting the balance of power • Innovative organisations– a great opportunity to make a difference – huge changes planned • Need to inform and shape improvements by those who understand the services i.e the users and the people who care

  4. good relationships between unions, employers and employees based on common interests which improve the business performance of organisations and improve the quality of working life for employees. TUC Partnership Institute What is partnership at work?

  5. joint commitment to success focus on quality of life recognition of legitimate roles commitment to job security transparency adding value TUC Partnership Institute Six Partnership principles

  6. Characteristics high staff involvement in decision making Shared common commitment to goals Shared values Joint problem solving to industrial relations Low conflict levels Benefits Attitudes, behaviour and performance improved Ability to recruit and retain good staff Low levels of absenteeism “The Partnership Company”IPA 1998 Guest and Peccei

  7. Research • European Foundation – best results delivered by trade union involvement in policy and strategy + individual employee involvement (Sisson et al) • Trade union presence = higher level of investment in training (Green and Machin) • DE study - those employers that have negotiated training with unions have delivered better results (Winterton)

  8. Research • Williams, Michie,Pattani 1998 “Improving the health of the NHS workforce” Lower rates of stress in organisations with good communication, co-operation, training, high levels of control over and flexibility in their work • Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998 - Unions deliver higher productivity • OECD Employment Outlook – Partnership delivers more innovation

  9. Research in private sector? • Fewer redundancies in partnership workplaces • Non-partnership workplaces – 36% used compulsory redundancies • Partnership workplaces – redundancies generally voluntary • Pay for average workers in partnership workplaces around £50 per week higher • Average hours shorter in partnership workplaces

  10. Benefits for staff • Influence over their work and services to patients and users • Involvement in decisions that affect them • Feel valued • Security • Quality of working life and work life balance • Development opportunities

  11. Benefits for Unions • adversarialism unlikely to deliver • responds to members’ aspirations • improves quality of working life • gives unions strategic influence over business • strengthens union presence in workplace

  12. Benefits for organisations • response to pressure/internal crisis/change • sustained business/ service success • motivated workforce • recruitment and retention • skills and flexibility • improved industrial relations • employer of choice

  13. Success factors • leadership – on all sides • agreed statements of policies, objectives, process • understanding of the case for change • investment of time, effort and training • monitoring and evaluation • understanding of the pressures on both sides

  14. Challenges • low trust morale security • ‘initiative overload’ • risk of being half hearted • challenge to existing roles: - managers - full-time officials - shop stewards • union relationships • departure of key personalities

  15. Developing Partnership Working - a cultural journey do to do for do with do together

  16. PCTs and Care Trusts arepartnership organisations • How can our people be real partners? • How can we demonstrate through our actions that we are partnership organisations? • Are we really ready for partnership working?

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