Improving management practices, work engagement and workplace innovation for productivity and wellbeing
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Strathclyde
Department Name: Human Resource Management
Abstract
AIMS
This research will adopt an innovative, multi-disciplinary approach to exploring how workplace and job design practices shape employees' wellbeing and involvement in innovation, and how insights on these issues can help address the UK's 'productivity puzzle'.
The proposed research aims to explore relationships between (a) factors shaping management support for workplace practices that contribute to an innovative work climate, (b) workplace practices and job design features (job demands and resources) that enable or constrain employee innovation, (c) employees' work engagement, and (d) employee wellbeing, innovative work behaviours and employee-driven innovation outcomes that enhance productivity.
The research brings together a UK team with expertise on how workplace innovation practices support innovative work behaviours (Findlay, Lindsay, McQuarrie, Dutton, Burns, Roy) with world leading experts on Job Demands-Resources (JDR) theory and work engagement (Bakker, Demerouti). The research will be innovative in synthesising and integrating elements of these previously distinct research agendas, harnessing insights from a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in organisational psychology, occupational medicine, employment relations, organisational studies and labour economics to make an innovative conceptual contribution, develop and validate new research instruments, and deliver impactful research outputs.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. Which factors influence strategic choice and management support for workplace practices that contribute to an innovative work climate?
2. What is the relationship between workplace practices, innovative work climate and job demands and resources, and levels of work engagement among employees?
3. What is the relationship between these factors and employee wellbeing, innovative work behaviours and employee-driven innovation?
4. What is the relationship between these outcomes and firm performance and productivity?
5. What is the scope for any firm-level productivity benefits from improved workplace practice, innovative work climates and work engagement to impact sectoral and national productivity?
METHODS, ANALYSIS AND OUTPUTS
The research will involve the development, validation and deployment of innovative, bespoke survey and case study tools to capture relationships between workplace practices and JDR, work engagement and employee outcomes including individual wellbeing, innovative work behaviours and employee-driven innovation, all potentially important contributors to transforming productivity. These survey and case study tools will facilitate in-depth research in 24 organisations across a range of sectors. Qualitative and quantitative data analyses will produce new insights on decision making, workplace and job design practice and innovation and wellbeing outcomes. We will enhance the impact of the research by conducting solutions-focused dissemination and engagement with all case study organisations and by delivering specific, in-depth interventions in four organisations, sharing lessons from these exercises and making a practical difference to workplace and job design practices that foster innovation. A further innovation will draw on the team's economic modelling expertise to model potential short-run and long-run effects on the UK economy of innovation performance and productivity gains flowing from workplace innovation. Outputs will include a final report, at least 10 articles targeting journals across the disciplines and a multi-disciplinary journal special issue. Impact will be enhanced though a practice-focused publication that will summarise key lessons and substantial online content and 5 'Masterclass' KE events targeted at business leaders, policy and sectoral stakeholders. The Research Advisory Group, already in place (see Letters of Support), and taking in senior stakeholders from the business, trade union and policy communities will help to maximise the impact of KE.
This research will adopt an innovative, multi-disciplinary approach to exploring how workplace and job design practices shape employees' wellbeing and involvement in innovation, and how insights on these issues can help address the UK's 'productivity puzzle'.
The proposed research aims to explore relationships between (a) factors shaping management support for workplace practices that contribute to an innovative work climate, (b) workplace practices and job design features (job demands and resources) that enable or constrain employee innovation, (c) employees' work engagement, and (d) employee wellbeing, innovative work behaviours and employee-driven innovation outcomes that enhance productivity.
The research brings together a UK team with expertise on how workplace innovation practices support innovative work behaviours (Findlay, Lindsay, McQuarrie, Dutton, Burns, Roy) with world leading experts on Job Demands-Resources (JDR) theory and work engagement (Bakker, Demerouti). The research will be innovative in synthesising and integrating elements of these previously distinct research agendas, harnessing insights from a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in organisational psychology, occupational medicine, employment relations, organisational studies and labour economics to make an innovative conceptual contribution, develop and validate new research instruments, and deliver impactful research outputs.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. Which factors influence strategic choice and management support for workplace practices that contribute to an innovative work climate?
2. What is the relationship between workplace practices, innovative work climate and job demands and resources, and levels of work engagement among employees?
3. What is the relationship between these factors and employee wellbeing, innovative work behaviours and employee-driven innovation?
4. What is the relationship between these outcomes and firm performance and productivity?
5. What is the scope for any firm-level productivity benefits from improved workplace practice, innovative work climates and work engagement to impact sectoral and national productivity?
METHODS, ANALYSIS AND OUTPUTS
The research will involve the development, validation and deployment of innovative, bespoke survey and case study tools to capture relationships between workplace practices and JDR, work engagement and employee outcomes including individual wellbeing, innovative work behaviours and employee-driven innovation, all potentially important contributors to transforming productivity. These survey and case study tools will facilitate in-depth research in 24 organisations across a range of sectors. Qualitative and quantitative data analyses will produce new insights on decision making, workplace and job design practice and innovation and wellbeing outcomes. We will enhance the impact of the research by conducting solutions-focused dissemination and engagement with all case study organisations and by delivering specific, in-depth interventions in four organisations, sharing lessons from these exercises and making a practical difference to workplace and job design practices that foster innovation. A further innovation will draw on the team's economic modelling expertise to model potential short-run and long-run effects on the UK economy of innovation performance and productivity gains flowing from workplace innovation. Outputs will include a final report, at least 10 articles targeting journals across the disciplines and a multi-disciplinary journal special issue. Impact will be enhanced though a practice-focused publication that will summarise key lessons and substantial online content and 5 'Masterclass' KE events targeted at business leaders, policy and sectoral stakeholders. The Research Advisory Group, already in place (see Letters of Support), and taking in senior stakeholders from the business, trade union and policy communities will help to maximise the impact of KE.
Planned Impact
Knowledge exchange and research impact - through research for and with business and employees to deliver workplace change that drives economic and social change - are designed into this proposal which builds upon the research teams' long-standing commitment to high quality, collaborative, user-engaged research.
This research will have academic impact through delivering a new holistic conceptual framework on how management practices can generate work engagement that supports innovative work behaviours, employee wellbeing and improved productivity. This will produce a minimum of 10 academic papers based around the aims and research questions. Its multi-disciplinary nature will facilitate publication in high ranked international journals in psychology, economics, work sociology, business studies and innovation.
Practical research impact will be ensured as robust evidence on the efficacy of particular management practices - on innovation, performance and employee wellbeing - is used to support better adoption of these practices and is incorporated into business support services. Robust evidence effectively communicated and supported can act as a catalyst to better practice adoption, inform policy narratives and influence the design of policy levers to support better management practice. Potential research beneficiaries include businesses and their employees; organisations with an interest in workplace performance and work engagement (employers' organisations and sectoral/industry bodies); business support organisations including public agencies; trade unions; government at all levels and relevant policy communities.
This research has been developed with relevant stakeholders, and will be designed, implemented and analysed with them in real time, primarily through close partnership working with a high-level stakeholder Research Advisory Group (RAG) comprising senior representatives from government, public agencies, business organisations and a trade union confederation. The RAG will represent the needs/interests of different constituencies; deploy distinct expertise to benefit the research; articulate key influences arising from firm, sectoral, labour market and geographical context; and use the research within their own organisations and services to drive improvements in business practice.
The research will involve direct intensive engagement with managers and employees in 24 case study businesses of varying sizes across 4 industrial sectors distinguished by sectoral productivity levels, crucially giving voice to lower level management and non-managerial employees who are largely absent from discussions of productivity. Qualitative and quantitative data will be generated through interviews and a bespoke online survey, while direct business impact will be supported through focus group analysis of findings in context, identifying potential for practice change and trialling of supportive interventions co-created with key partners.
The research design focusses on leveraging case findings to influence and impact on a wider business base, not simply through dissemination and engagement but also through 'research to practice' events and activities organised and delivered with key external partners such as employers' organisations, public agencies, policymakers and trade unions.
Two key elements in maximising impact are first, working with the RAG members and research team's wider network to promulgate and support improved business practices in sectoral and geographical context; and second, working with providers of business support services to influence their suite of interventions and support and advise their business facing staff and supplier network.
Academic and practitioner engagement and impact will also be delivered through ongoing and constructive involvement and learning/practice sharing with other researchers and stakeholders through the ESRC hub.
This research will have academic impact through delivering a new holistic conceptual framework on how management practices can generate work engagement that supports innovative work behaviours, employee wellbeing and improved productivity. This will produce a minimum of 10 academic papers based around the aims and research questions. Its multi-disciplinary nature will facilitate publication in high ranked international journals in psychology, economics, work sociology, business studies and innovation.
Practical research impact will be ensured as robust evidence on the efficacy of particular management practices - on innovation, performance and employee wellbeing - is used to support better adoption of these practices and is incorporated into business support services. Robust evidence effectively communicated and supported can act as a catalyst to better practice adoption, inform policy narratives and influence the design of policy levers to support better management practice. Potential research beneficiaries include businesses and their employees; organisations with an interest in workplace performance and work engagement (employers' organisations and sectoral/industry bodies); business support organisations including public agencies; trade unions; government at all levels and relevant policy communities.
This research has been developed with relevant stakeholders, and will be designed, implemented and analysed with them in real time, primarily through close partnership working with a high-level stakeholder Research Advisory Group (RAG) comprising senior representatives from government, public agencies, business organisations and a trade union confederation. The RAG will represent the needs/interests of different constituencies; deploy distinct expertise to benefit the research; articulate key influences arising from firm, sectoral, labour market and geographical context; and use the research within their own organisations and services to drive improvements in business practice.
The research will involve direct intensive engagement with managers and employees in 24 case study businesses of varying sizes across 4 industrial sectors distinguished by sectoral productivity levels, crucially giving voice to lower level management and non-managerial employees who are largely absent from discussions of productivity. Qualitative and quantitative data will be generated through interviews and a bespoke online survey, while direct business impact will be supported through focus group analysis of findings in context, identifying potential for practice change and trialling of supportive interventions co-created with key partners.
The research design focusses on leveraging case findings to influence and impact on a wider business base, not simply through dissemination and engagement but also through 'research to practice' events and activities organised and delivered with key external partners such as employers' organisations, public agencies, policymakers and trade unions.
Two key elements in maximising impact are first, working with the RAG members and research team's wider network to promulgate and support improved business practices in sectoral and geographical context; and second, working with providers of business support services to influence their suite of interventions and support and advise their business facing staff and supplier network.
Academic and practitioner engagement and impact will also be delivered through ongoing and constructive involvement and learning/practice sharing with other researchers and stakeholders through the ESRC hub.
Organisations
- University of Strathclyde (Lead Research Organisation)
- Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- University of Warwick (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA (Collaboration)
| Description | A key research objective was to improve integration between the substantial bodies of work on job quality (in work and employment studies) and that on job demands and resources (within social psychology). The research delivered a new conceptual model that linked workplace practices at multiple levels (organisational, team and individual) to measures of work engagement and wellbeing; individual, team and organisational innovation; and performance and productivity outcomes. This has enabled us to explore the relationships between intrinsic and extrinsic work characteristics and how these impact on how engaged workers feel in their work, and their propensity towards discretionary behaviours, especially innovative behaviours that can be important to productivity improvement. Intensive interviews with senior management highlighted the degree to which they perceive themselves as facing choices and constraints in deciding what workplace practices to adopt and what factors impact the choices they make. How managers make decisions that impact on the quality of jobs and the engagement of workers is significantly under-researched. Our findings pointed to the importance not only of market context and position, but also of organisational context, business history and owner/managerial values in shaping management decision-making. Evidence that organisations in the same sector can and do adopt distinct approaches to work and workplace practices shows the potential of exercising strategic choices that can improve the quality of work. Organisations also altered their choices of people management practices consequent on significant market change, changes in ownership or regulatory change. However, the research also highlighted the 'stickiness' of workplace practices, driven in some cases by a lack of time for reflection by senior management and a lack of awareness of how alternative workplace practices might improve organisational and employee outcomes. To test the relationships posed in the conceptual model, a bespoke research tool for surveying managers and workers was developed, with some potential for commercialisation, and deployed in 30 case study organisations. This generated an extensive quantitative dataset capable of analysis at organisational, team and individual level, and revealed important insights. First, our findings pointed to the predominant role of workplace practices associated with good job quality (fair work HR practices) in driving work engagement, followed by the role of team innovation climate in supporting higher levels of work engagement. Second, these fair work HR practices also mitigated against exhaustion. Third, the findings pointed to the predominant role of job crafting practices (opportunities to seek out efficiencies, challenges and resources to address challenges) as drivers of discretionary work behaviours (those not required of employees). Fourth, job crafting practices alongside autonomy were the most significant drivers of innovative work behaviours. This research involved extensive feedback to participating organisations and in a small number, support by the research team in developing interventions to address their adoption of job crafting behaviours and fair work HR practices, developing researchers' impact capabilities in the process. The research also opened up new research questions on the most effective means to scale up adoption of the management practices identified as supporting work engagement and innovative work behaviours. |
| Exploitation Route | The outcomes will contribute to a growing body of knowledge on job quality and its implications, and to the important role of job and workplace quality in delivering positive outcomes for individuals, organisations, the economy and society. In addition, the findings will contribute to the research base on broad based or organisational innovation. Practically, the findings give key insights into the types and configurations of management and workplace practices that might be adopted to improve business/organisational performance. All of this has the potential to impact on business practice and on government policies to support businesses, as well as providing insights to support management education, training and development. |
| Sectors | Aerospace Defence and Marine Communities and Social Services/Policy Construction Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Financial Services and Management Consultancy Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology |
| Description | The research findings have delivered impact in a variety of different ways (as outlined below) through the provision and dissemination of robust research evidence on the association of particular configurations of management and workplace practices on the one hand, and valued individual and organisational outcomes on the other. First, some of our participating case study organisations have begun change processes to respond to their specific research findings, selecting priority areas for action and establishing groups to drive actions forward. Second, our research findings have been disseminated to policymakers in Scotland and are part of ongoing discussions about how to support and embed fair work and greater workplace innovation in organisations and business in Scotland. Third, we have engaged a range of professional practitioner bodies in the research dissemination (eg CIPD, CMI) to expand the audience engaging with fair work practices and workplace innovation, and to consider the wellbeing consequences of workplace practices. Fourth, the research findings underpin our own future research plans in supporting local policy innovation. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
| Impact Types | Societal Economic Policy & public services |
| Description | Member, Business Purpose Commission, Scotland |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/publications/business-purpose-commission-report-scottish-government-response/ |
| Description | Embedding engaging work practices, flexible management processes and systemic capacity for the effective implementation of strategy and innovation initiatives |
| Amount | £195,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 01/2023 |
| Description | Supporting innovative work behaviours to drive DEAS innovation in Fintech |
| Amount | £15,800 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R044937/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 07/2021 |
| Description | The Productivity Institute People Programme: Effective Worker Voice and Pathways to Productivity |
| Amount | £105,540 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2024 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | Productivity Outcomes of workplace Practice, Engagement and Learning - the PrOPEL Hub |
| Organisation | Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The 'Improving management practices, work engagement and workplace innovation for productivity and wellbeing' research investigators also lead the PrOPEL Hub, a co-created partnership across 7 UK research institutions and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, funded by UKRI/ESRC, aimed at transforming productivity in the UK. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The research partners are engaged in externally facing knowledge exchange with businesses, other workplace stakeholders and policymakers to harness the research insight of the constituent research teams to create research synergies and reach in supporting businesses to transform producitivity. |
| Impact | See propelhub.org for all outputs. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Productivity Outcomes of workplace Practice, Engagement and Learning - the PrOPEL Hub |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Department | Birmingham Business School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The 'Improving management practices, work engagement and workplace innovation for productivity and wellbeing' research investigators also lead the PrOPEL Hub, a co-created partnership across 7 UK research institutions and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, funded by UKRI/ESRC, aimed at transforming productivity in the UK. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The research partners are engaged in externally facing knowledge exchange with businesses, other workplace stakeholders and policymakers to harness the research insight of the constituent research teams to create research synergies and reach in supporting businesses to transform producitivity. |
| Impact | See propelhub.org for all outputs. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Productivity Outcomes of workplace Practice, Engagement and Learning - the PrOPEL Hub |
| Organisation | University of East Anglia |
| Department | Norwich Business School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The 'Improving management practices, work engagement and workplace innovation for productivity and wellbeing' research investigators also lead the PrOPEL Hub, a co-created partnership across 7 UK research institutions and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, funded by UKRI/ESRC, aimed at transforming productivity in the UK. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The research partners are engaged in externally facing knowledge exchange with businesses, other workplace stakeholders and policymakers to harness the research insight of the constituent research teams to create research synergies and reach in supporting businesses to transform producitivity. |
| Impact | See propelhub.org for all outputs. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Productivity Outcomes of workplace Practice, Engagement and Learning - the PrOPEL Hub |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Department | Business School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The 'Improving management practices, work engagement and workplace innovation for productivity and wellbeing' research investigators also lead the PrOPEL Hub, a co-created partnership across 7 UK research institutions and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, funded by UKRI/ESRC, aimed at transforming productivity in the UK. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The research partners are engaged in externally facing knowledge exchange with businesses, other workplace stakeholders and policymakers to harness the research insight of the constituent research teams to create research synergies and reach in supporting businesses to transform producitivity. |
| Impact | See propelhub.org for all outputs. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Productivity Outcomes of workplace Practice, Engagement and Learning - the PrOPEL Hub |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Department | School of Management |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The 'Improving management practices, work engagement and workplace innovation for productivity and wellbeing' research investigators also lead the PrOPEL Hub, a co-created partnership across 7 UK research institutions and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, funded by UKRI/ESRC, aimed at transforming productivity in the UK. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The research partners are engaged in externally facing knowledge exchange with businesses, other workplace stakeholders and policymakers to harness the research insight of the constituent research teams to create research synergies and reach in supporting businesses to transform producitivity. |
| Impact | See propelhub.org for all outputs. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | ReWAGE Expert Panel membership |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Department | School of Business |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Member of ReWAGE Expert Panel |
| Collaborator Contribution | Engagement with ReWAGE's wider activities; membership of ReWAGE Job Quality sub group; adviser to ReWAGE's research for the Northern Ireland Labour Relations Agency. |
| Impact | Insights from the MPEE project have been fed into the activities of ReWAGE through Findlay's membership of the ReWAGE Expert Panel and specifically in support of ReWAGE activities around productivity and innovation. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | ReWAGE Expert Panel membership |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Department | Institute for Employment Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Member of ReWAGE Expert Panel |
| Collaborator Contribution | Engagement with ReWAGE's wider activities; membership of ReWAGE Job Quality sub group; adviser to ReWAGE's research for the Northern Ireland Labour Relations Agency. |
| Impact | Insights from the MPEE project have been fed into the activities of ReWAGE through Findlay's membership of the ReWAGE Expert Panel and specifically in support of ReWAGE activities around productivity and innovation. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | A fair work recovery - Fair Work Convention Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Participation in an event examining the implications of the Covid19 pandemic for fair work. This webinar was organised by the Fair Work Convention and the expert panel comprised national and international speakers. The content of the webinar included discussion of workplace innovations and their implications for fair work. Policy makers, business representatives, trade unions, researchers and civil society organisation members attended the event and engaged in discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.fairworkconvention.scot/a-fair-work-recovery-speakers-bio/ |
| Description | All Party Parliamentary Group on Science and Policy - The Future of Work |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Expert presentation to All Party Parliamentary Group on science and policy, on the invitation of ESRC, drawing on the insights from the MPEE research project and the PrOPEL Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ukri.org/our-work/supporting-collaboration-in-the-uk/supporting-collaboration-esrc/all-p... |
| Description | Blog: fair work and workplace practice in the current crisis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The podcast looks at the role of fair work and related management practices in the context of the current pandemic. It explores the role of management practices aimed at delivering high quality work as an asset to businesses and other employers in responding to the need for rapid change to responded to pandemic-related business challenges. It also considers the implications for workplace innovation, both in responding to the pandemic and in shaping how businesses emerge from the pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://fraserofallander.org/scottish-economy/labour-market/fair-work-and-workplace-practice-in-the-... |
| Description | CIPD Applied Research Conference mini podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mini podcast on MPEE findings on innovation in HR practice |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Can Do Innovation Summit - Future of Work Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Spoke at and chaired session on The Future of Work, sharing insights from MPEE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.candoinnovation.scot/ |
| Description | Driving fair work forward: wicked problems, evidence and levers; invited deep dive presentation to the Scottish Government's Minister for Fair Work. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation to SG minister and staff on evidence base for adopting fair work practices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Expert Panel Member - Scottish Government proposed Centre for Workplace Transformation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Expert panel member to develop a proposal to establish a Centre for Workplace Transformation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| Description | Expert panel - CIPD Scotland Good Work Index |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Podcast for CIPD Scotland on analysis of Good Work Index data for Scotland 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Expert panel member, SCDI Productivity Matters Conference 2022, Edinburgh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Expert panel member on work engagement for innovation at industry conference, sharing insights from MPEE research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.scdi.org.uk/events/productivity-matters-2022/ |
| Description | Feedback and learning sessions with over 20 businesses |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | We have fed back individual case study research findings to senior management teams in over 20 case study businesses across a range of industrial sectors. These events help explain the research insights to the participating teams, and focus on areas of potential improvement in practice that would enhance innovative potential and wellbeing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Impact workshops with participating employer organisations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | We have held multiple events feeding back organisation-level data analysis to managers and employees of individual businesses participating in this project. The events take the form of a problem-solving workshop, using our data analysis as a starting point for collaborative working among employees and managers to arrive at ideas to improve job quality and innovation performance. Audiences tend to average in the twenties. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Interview for national radio programme - Does work have to be miserable? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Expert interview for BBC Radio 4 one hour programme on the quality of work, including the importance of job design that gained attention on social media. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/23fs1rydvxf6TL51Hn60wmm/5-things-that-make-us-happy-at-wor... |
| Description | Invited presentation (Findlay), Work and Wellbeing: Levelling up the UK Webinar, Institute for the Future of Work |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentations and discussion on the potential role of fair work in recovery plans and levelling up across the country. All panellists discussed the role of good work in building strong, resilient communities across the country; building the conditions of good work to reduce growing inequalities in work and health; and how best to align health, social and economic interests in recovery plans. The audience was primarily the UK cross-parliamentary group on the future of work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ifow.org/event/work-and-wellbeing-levelling-up-the-uk |
| Description | Invited presentation on fair work to South of Scotland Enterprise Agency Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and debate on the role of fair work in economic development |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Job satisfaction, job crafting, joy in work - invited talk (Lindsay) to Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management: International Healthcare Leadership Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Podcast recording with live Q&A. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://internationalconference2022.fmlm.ac.uk/leaders-healthcare-fmlm-conference-2017/sessions/f6-c... |
| Description | Keynote on research impact for Early Career Researchers, University of Strathclyde Business School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of how to build impactful research and careers with PG students and Early Career Researchers drawing on MPEE and related work on workplace innovation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Keynote speaker: CIPD Scotland launch of Working Lives Scotland 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Keynote speech on CIPD working lives scotland report launch, drawing on insights from MPEE project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | MPEE research policy seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of research findings and policy implications to a group of policymakers from the Scottish Government and public bodies/agencies in Scotland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Management practices, work engagement and workplace innovation for productivity and wellbeing (the MPEE project) - presentation at PrOPEL Hub Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of research findings at PrOPEL Hub conference alongside other ESRC Transforming Productivity Projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Masterclass - Managing people for engagement, innovation, productivity and wellbeing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of early MPEE research findings across PrOPEL Hub team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.propelhub.org/eventbrite-event/managing-people-for-engagement-innovation-productivity-an... |
| Description | Masterclass - Partnership working and work engagement in NHS Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Masterclass with PrOPEL Hub and Healthcare Management Association on social and employee relations innovation in NHS Scotland |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.propelhub.org/eventbrite-event/partnership-working-and-work-engagement-in-nhs-scotland/ |
| Description | Masterclass: Our Shared Digital Future - Managing People for Innovation and Fairwork |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Masterclass examining the skills and ways of organising work that will be needed as businesses more towards technology-enabled workplaces post-Covid-19; how people management can support employees at all levels to innovate and so maximise the benefits of digital investment; and how we can ensure that digital innovation helps to deliver fair work and better jobs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.propelhub.org/our-shared-digital-future-managing-people-for-innovation-and-fair-work/ |
| Description | Member, Business Purpose Commission for Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Membership of Commission to examine the role/outcomes of business purpose. Particular contribution around the role of employees as key workplace stakeholders, drawing on MPEE and other research insights. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.scdi.org.uk/business-purpose-commission-for-scotland-about/ |
| Description | Member, Prosper Peer Works Advisory Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Member, Advisory Group for Prosper Peer Works productivity clubs |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
| URL | https://peerworks.scot/about/ |
| Description | Member, SCDI Productivity Club Advisory Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited member of Advisory Group on SCDI Productivity Clubs to support productivity improvement in businesses across Scotland. Support for development of effective Productivity Club support and engagement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.scdi.org.uk/productivity-clubs/ |
| Description | Our Shared Digital Future - Managing People for Innovation and Fairwork |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Masterclass on the skills and ways of organising work that will be needed as businesses more towards technology-enabled workplaces post-Covid-19; how people management can support employees at all levels to innovate and so maximise the benefits of digital investment; and how we can ensure that digital innovation helps to deliver fair work and better jobs. Co-organised across the Strathclyde MPEE project and the PrOPEL Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.propelhub.org/our-shared-digital-future-managing-people-for-innovation-and-fair-work/ |
| Description | Podcast - Reflections on the CIPD Good Work Index 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Podcast on the findings of the 2021 CIPD Good Work Index survey |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.propelhub.org/reflections-on-the-cipd-good-work-index-2021/ |
| Description | Policy implications of MPEE briefing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of policy implications of MPEE research project findings to audience of policymakers, practitioners, academics and ECRs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presentation at SCDI Productivity Club Central event on fair work, engagement and innovation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Keynote presentation at SCDI Productivity Club event on what builds good work and the role of engagement in driving innovation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.scdi.org.uk/events/central-productivity-club-presents-fair-work/ |
| Description | Presentation of MPEE research findings to participating case study organisations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of research first findings to group of participating case study organisations followed by Q&A and networking lunch. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation to Strathclyde Economic Policy Leadership Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Project findings were presented to civil servants, policy professionals and business stakeholders participating in the Strathclyde Economic Policy Leadership Programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Productivity Insights Network presentation on business models and work engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Expert Productivity Insights Network panel on Employer and Employee Needs post-Covid-19 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Putting research into practice: navigating change, invited talk at CIPD Applied Research Conference (Lindsay) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk to audience of HR practitioners and work/employment/HR academics and Q&A. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://events.cipd.co.uk/events/blog/session/knowledge-exchange-network-putting-research-into-pract... |
| Description | Seminar - Managing people for workplace innovation, productivity and wellbeing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar to postgraduate research students on early findings from the MPEE research project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Showcase Video for CIPD Applied Research Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Patricia Findlay and Colin Lindsay delivered an ARC Showcase Video on Transforming Productivity through Employee Engagement and Innovation for the CIPD Applied Research Conference 2021. This session supported the CIPD ARC Conference, and facilitated a discussion of Findlay and Lindsay's current ESRC funded research on Improving management practices, work engagement and workplace innovation for productivity and wellbeing, including providing an opportunity for eligible and interested businesses to become involved in the research. The session also highlighted the partnership between the CIPD, the lead body for HR professionals, and the PrOPEL Hub, funded by ESRC as part of the Transforming Productivity Programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://t.co/Z3R08MAXqH?amp=1 |
| Description | Stakeholder engagement with human resource professionals on the importance of effective employee voice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote presentation to workshop of HR professionals on the importance of, and outcomes associated with, employee voice as a central component of job quality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | The British Academy Lecture: Fair Work for out Future? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture as part of The British Academy Lectures, in conjunction with The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, with Q&A session afterwards, networking reception, and video posted on British Academy website. Lecture open to the public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectures/fair-work-for-our-future/ |
| Description | Transforming productivity (and other wicked problems) through fair/good work - invited presentation at CIPD ARC conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited keynote presentation on MPEE research findings and Q&A. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://events.cipd.co.uk/events/arc/ |
| Description | What does the evidence say about employee engagement? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation by Findlay and Lindsay at Scottish Counicl for Development of Industry Productivity Matters Conference, online, 12 February 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.scdi.org.uk/events/people-and-productivity-productivity-matters-conference-2021/ |
| Description | Workplace Innovation Workshop, People, Organisations and Work Institute, De Montford University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Keynote presentation at workplace innovation workshop to stimulate academic and policy interest in supporting workplace innovation to drive productivity and wellbeing in the East Midlands. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |