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Management & UK 2030: The Path to Enhanced Productivity & Human Capital Investment

Bharthi Keshwara of the Chartered Management Institute shares insights from the CMI’s recent ‘Management & UK 2030’ report, and makes the case for long-term investment in improved management capabilities. The UK has seen a return to economic growth earlier than expected, inflation has stabilised to target levels, and the Bank of England has cut interest […]

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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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Skilled Managers? The Story So Far…

Managing people

When we started the Skilled Managers research project in 2020, we wanted to see whether a training programme for line managers could boost conflict confidence and competence and have an impact on engagement and productivity. In the last three years, we’ve worked with 70 different organisations and trained around 1,000 managers and we’re still going.

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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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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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Managing people for performance and wellbeing: Towards a Sustainable Practice Action Research Community (SPARC) for evidence-based HRM

Improving wellbeing, Managing people

At ESRC PrOPEL Hub, our partnership with the CIPD is a crucial component in our work to engage with HR stakeholders and people managers to turn knowledge into practice. We are committed to ensuring that people managers have access to cutting-edge, robust and actionable research; and that the research community can learn from frontline managers

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Managing People in Microbusinesses in a Changing World, interactive seminar, Birmingham, Wednesday 5 October

Boosting innovation, Improving wellbeing, Managing people

Event Summary: Levelling Up: Managing People in Microbusinesses in a Changing World On Wednesday 5 October 2022, Aston University in Birmingham hosted a highly anticipated in-person seminar organised by CREME and ESRC PrOPEL Hub. The event, titled “Levelling Up: Managing People in Microbusinesses in a Changing World,” brought together key stakeholders within the microbusiness ecosystem

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The new normal – good and bad workplace practices that are here to stay

Managing people

In this PrOPEL Hub video, Professor Martin McCracken is joined by Dr Denise Currie (Queens University Belfast), Michelle Lestas (InBizTogether) and Marek Zemanik (CIPD) who explore the positive and negative work practices in a post Covid-19 workplace. Prior to the Covid 19 pandemic, the opportunity to work in a more flexible way was something that many employees

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Charting the Impact and Legacy of the Great Homeworking Experiment

Managing people

In this blog Alan Felstead of Cardiff University discusses the publication of his new book Remote Working: A Research Overview. The book provides an accessible overview of the history of remote working and the impact of the massive shifts in the location of work that have occurred because of the global pandemic. One of the principal

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