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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 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 What is partnership at work? Six Partnership principles “The Partnership Company”IPA 1998 Guest and Peccei 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 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) 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 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 w