Do you believe workplace wellbeing can ever be taken too far? Dr Helen Fitzhugh and Andrea James (University of East Anglia) asked this question of 25 managers from UK-based public, private and charitable organisations. Helen, a senior researcher and knowledge exchange fellow for the UEA’s Workplace Wellbeing Research Team, offers a ‘sneak peek’ of early […]
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Professor Colin Lindsay, Director of ESRC PrOPEL Hub, reflects on insights from our recent Knowledge Into Practice event, hosted in collaboration the Enterprise Research Centre, on Mental Health, Workplace Wellbeing and Productivity Here at the ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council PrOPEL Hub, we hugely enjoyed partnering with the Enterprise Research Centre (UK) on our
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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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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
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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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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A University of East Anglia project funded by PrOPEL Hub has researched how far managers feel organisations should go in efforts towards workplace wellbeing. In this first article on the project, Andrea James explains the findings of the first question on the survey: who has responsibility for wellbeing in the workplace? We asked our survey
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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
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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Call for managers and leaders of UK organisations (public, private and third sector organisations all welcome!) to give their opinions on workplace wellbeing initiatives in an interview with UEA researchers. A month ago we launched our survey on workplace wellbeing organizational ethics. Although the survey is still open to new responses until the end of
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