Workplace transformations, health and wellbeing

We are interested in exploring:

How new forms of work such as digital platform work and remote working influence employees’ health and wellbeing?
How organisational responses to market competitive pressures impact sustainability?
How organisations can create the environment to support productive, happy and fulfilling working lives?

Research briefs

Buffering effect (PDF)

In search of the 'buffering' effect in the job demands-control model: the role of teamwork HRM practices and occupations.

Meaningful work (PDF)

Social stratification in meaningful work: occupational class disparities in the United Kingdom.

CIPD Good Work Index 2020 - UK Working Lives Survey (PDF)

This report presents the CIPD Good Work Index, the CIPD’s annual benchmark of good work or job quality in the UK.

Followers' unclear demands during the COVID-19 pandemic can undermine leaders' well-being: A moderated mediation model from an entrapment perspective (PDF)

This paper seeks to understand how unclear demands from followers during COVID-19 can affect leaders' wellbeing and use the defeat-entrapment theory to guide our theorizing and empirical examination.

Fostering mutual gains: Explaining the influence of high-performance work systems and leadership on psychological health and service performance (PDF)

Grounded in the emergent interest in sustainable management of human resources and drawing on self-determination theory, this study addresses two interrelated questions.

Influencing and supporting religious identity in the NHS through faith competency (PDF)

The purpose of this project is to improve the wellbeing of NHS staff with a specific focus on one of the nine protected characteristics (Equality Act 2010).

Mapping good work (PDF)

One issue in promoting a ‘good work recovery’, as this approach may be termed, is pinning down what exactly is ‘good work’. In our book Mapping Good Work, we set out to discover the answer and establish where ‘good work’ is most likely to be found across the occupational structure.

Newcomers' relationship-building behavior, mentor information sharing and newcomer adjustment: The moderating effects of perceived mentor and newcomer deep similarity (PDF)

To understand the connection between newcomers’ proactivity and mentors’ mentoring behaviour for newcomer adjustment, we specifically focus on newcomers’ relationship building behaviours and mentors’ information sharing behaviours.

On the bright side of motherhood - A mixed method enquiry (PDF)

Dr Xu and colleagues conducted a systematic synthesis of multi-disciplinary literature and in depth interviews with working mothers in the tourism and hospitality industry.

Religious identity in the workplace: A systematic review, research agenda, and practical implications (PDF)

We conducted a systematic review of relevant literature to address how religious and occupational identities relate to each other in the workplace.

The restorative effect of work after unemployment: An intra-individual analysis of subjective well-being recovery through reemployment (PDF)

This study re-examines the issue that unemployment has enduring negative effects on individuals’ subjective well-being by using fixed effect models to track life satisfaction trajectories of those who followed different pathways out of unemployment.

When is the grass greener on the other side? (PDF)

A longitudinal study of the joint effect of occupational mobility and personality on the honeymoon-hangover experience during job change.

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Workplace transformations, health and wellbeing

Research briefs