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Reflections on the ESRC PrOPEL Hub People Management Hackathon, Sheffield, 1 February

Engaging employees, Improving wellbeing, Managing people

Professor Colin Lindsay PhD, MCIPD, FRSA Director of the ESRC PrOPEL Hub, reflects on the latest of the project’s series of innovative ‘Hackathons’ bringing together leading workplace researchers with HR leaders and people managers to explore how we can use cutting-edge evidence to inform workplace practice and enhance productivity. The ESRC: Economic and Social Research […]

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Promoting Wellbeing in the Workplace: An Evidence-based Approach, Insights from the ESRC Festival of Social Science

Engaging employees, Improving wellbeing

At the ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council PrOPEL Hub we were delighted to deliver two workshops as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science on 31 October. Both workshops – hosted by Strathclyde Business School – focused on a key theme for our work at ESRC PrOPEL Hub: how workplace practice can foster employee wellbeing, engagement and performance. Both workshops

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How we can better support and develop Line Managers

Engaging employees, Managing people

Line managers play a central role in shaping working experiences and building more effective and productive workplaces. In particular, they are ideally placed to prevent, contain and resolve conflict at work, which currently costs UK organisations more than £28billion per year. But research has consistently shown that most managers are not provided with the skills

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The Evolve Workplace Wellbeing online toolkit: a go-to resource

Engaging employees, Improving wellbeing

In 2022, PrOPEL Hub partners at the Workplace Wellbeing Research team, Norwich Business School (NBS), University of East Anglia launched the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing toolkit. 15 months later, the ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council Propel Hub is happy to share the outcome of the Evolve Workplace Wellbeing toolkit Evaluation Report. Stakeholders who have engaged with the Evolve team have reported

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An Introduction to Job Crafting

Boosting innovation, Engaging employees, Improving wellbeing

Introduction Job crafting is a bottom-up, employee driven approach to job design that can complement more traditional top-down, manager led approaches. In this short article, we’ll explore the basics of job crafting and share some examples of what it can look like in practice as well as the research evidence for why it matters. At

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Productivity Outcomes of Workplace Practice, Engagement, & Learning: Insights from the ESCR PrOPEL Hub

Boosting innovation, Engaging employees, Improving wellbeing, Managing people, Supporting diversity

ESRC PrOPEL Hub has been a bridge to boost productivity and wellbeing in public and private organisations. This has been possible by transforming the outputs of cutting-edge research projects into practice. PrOPEL Hub has exchanged knowledge and provided practical lessons to the organisations through different deliveries such as hackathons, toolkits, podcasts, blogs, and free online

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The PrOPEL Hub People Management Hackathon – reflections

Boosting innovation, Engaging employees, Improving wellbeing, Managing people

On 28th October 2022, representatives of 10 organisations (public and private sector) spent the day with eight of our PrOPEL Hub colleagues discussing latest insights in people management. The in-person event was a ‘hackathon’. Hackathon means any event where people come together to discuss and find ways to solve problems. It does not have to

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The Importance of Family, History and Place for Trade Union Membership

Engaging employees

In this PrOPEL Hub Research Showcase video Rhys Davies, Professor Alan Felstead and Professor Alex Bryson explore the importance of family, history and place in supporting favourable attitudes towards union membership. Trade union membership is regarded both as a route to and a key indicator of fair work. Union membership is associated with higher earnings

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Managing People for Engagement, Innovation, Productivity and Wellbeing

Engaging employees

In this PrOPEL Hub Research Showcase video, Professor Patricia Findlay and Professor Colin Lindsay explore how people management and workplace practices can support employee engagement, innovation, productivity and wellbeing. As many organisations seek to reboot in the wake of Covid-19, business leaders and HR professionals face twin challenges – to harness and include all employees

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Reflections on the CIPD Good Work Index 2021

Engaging employees

In this PrOPEL Hub podcast, Professors Graeme Roy, Patricia Findlay and Colin Lindsay explore key themes arising from the recently published CIPD Good Work Index 2021. The CIPD Goodwork Index is an annual benchmark of good work in the UK drawing upon the UK Working Lives survey, which collects the responses across a number of

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