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 they need.
Researchers at the Universities of Westminster and Sheffield have been working with the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) to develop an approach to developing line manager capability with the potential to reach those find it difficult to access traditional approaches to training.
In an event held in Novemeber 2023, the Skilled Managers team presented some early findings from their project and discussed some of the key challenges facing managers. The event also included a conflict clinic asking a panel of experts how they would respond to a range of tricky managerial dilemmas.
Watch the full event here:
Presenters and Panellists
Gill Dix, Institute for Employment Research
Terry Duffy – Strategic Growth Partnership Lead, Acas
Jonny Gifford – Senior Advisor, Organisational Behaviour , CIPD
Daisy Hooper – Head of Policy and Innovation, Chartered Management Institute
Paul Latreille – Professor of Management, University of Sheffield
Richard Saundry – Principal Research Fellow, University of Westminster