Research

CMI works to bring you the latest research directly from managers and leaders across the nation. You can keep up-to-date with our research findings and reports here.

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Topic: Personal Development

21st Century Leaders – Building Employability Through Higher Education

Supporting student employability is an urgent challenge for universities – and has national significance.

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Topic: Productivity

The Future Forecast for 2018

UK managers are expecting a tough 2018, as the continued uncertainty surrounding Brexit knocks confidence in the workplace

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Negative Experiences Shape Womens Decisions to Go for Executive Roles

This paper shows differences in responses to recruitment rejections resulting in women’s low representation in management

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Topic: Productivity

The Quality Of Working Life 2016

Always on managers’ are now working 29 days extra a year and are suffering rising levels of stress according to the 2016 Qual

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Topic: Difficult Conversations

The Middle Manager Lifeline

The Middle Manager Lifeline

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Topic: Equality and Diversity

Mind the gender pay gap

Men 40% more likely than women to be promoted in management roles

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Topic: Employability

Emphasis on Employability

Unemployment has been one of the most significant problems for university graduates and their non-graduate peers since 2008.

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Topic: Personal Development

Learning to Lead: The Digital Potential

Employers Are at Risk of Making Tech Savvy Managers Switch Off From Learning New Skills With Dated Digital Technology

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Topic: Governance

The MoralDNA of Employee Owned Companies

Growing interest in employee ownership as an alternative to usual business models such as PLCs, LLPs and family businesses.

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Topic: Productivity

Growing Your Small Business

How business schools and professional bodies can successfully support the growth of small and medium enterprises.

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Topic: Productivity

The MoralDNA of Performance

This report moves from a focus on the fish swimming in the tank to the tank itself: to explore the space in which people work

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Topic: Productivity

Management 2020

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Management(APPGM) decided to investigate how management and leadership in the UK will change

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