The concept of a holistic organisational wellbeing strategy is an emerging phenomenon, yet research has primarily focused on individual initiatives or theories of wellbeing. More work is needed to explore how such strategies are enacted, how stakeholders experience them, and the potential unintended consequences for employees and organisations.
In this presentation, we highlight the paradoxes inherent in organisational wellbeing strategies, examining how their implementation can sometimes lead to unintended, even damaging, outcomes for both employers and employees. We also discuss practical approaches to mitigate these risks.
Our contribution advances debates on the nature, significance, and outcomes of organisational wellbeing strategies. Importantly, we adopt a compassionate perspective on the challenges HR and L&D practitioners face in designing and enacting effective wellbeing initiatives.
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Scholars and practitioners with an interest in the area of well being in the workplace, moral activity in the workplace, and generational differences in the approach to work.
Speakers
Dr Jonathan Crawshaw
Dr Jonathan Crawshaw is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Organisational Behaviour and HRM, and Research Degrees Programme Director, in Aston Business School, Aston University. He has over 15 years research experience in organizational justice and behavioural ethics. His current research interests focus on the development, and impact, of ethical/fair leaders at work. He is founding member of the Organizational Justice and Behavioural Ethics Research Group, a global network of justice and behavioural ethics scholars, a Group that organises and delivers a prestigious biennial workshop on these themes. He is also currently an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Management and the Associate Editor of Social Justice Research. He has published widely on the above themes in leading journals and international conferences. He has currently supervised four PhD students to completion and has six other Doctoral students at various stages of their research.
Dr. Laura Byrne
Dr Laura Byrne is a Lecturer in HRM and Organisational Behaviour at Aston Business School, Aston University. Laura’s research interests include wellbeing strategy in organisations, paradox theory, and critical realist philosophy.
Laura recently utilised critical realist philosophy and the comparative case study approach to investigate how wellbeing and the wellbeing strategy is defined, enacted and experienced in organisations.
Chaired by
Dr. Simon McCabe
Dr. Simon McCabe is a Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Science at Aston Business School and Head of the Healthy Work Research Group. His research focuses on psychological responses to a variety of threats encountered across a range of domains including health and workplace contexts (e.g., uncertainty, death, social exclusion, risk, and unemployment).
Exposure to these threats often have important implications for attitudes and behaviour. Understanding where these threats arise and the responses that may motivate desired or undesired behaviour is the key focus of his work. Simon has published on a number of topics relating to psychological responses to mortality reminders, and how this impacts, for example, product preferences, consumption patterns, health behaviours, and workplace relations. In addition, he has been engaged in a number of consultancy-based roles to provide input to a range of projects requiring behavioural expertise.
Simon has worked with partners such as Falkirk Council, Zero Waste Scotland, Keep Scotland Beautiful, and the World Health Organisation. His work is predominantly experimental in nature -- He enjoys the challenge and creativity that comes with trying to turn often complex, nuanced, and multifaceted factors in the real world into measurable or manipulatable variables that can be scrutinised as part of an empirical study.
Benefits of attending
- Learn about cutting edge research in these areas;
- Connect with leading scholars in the field;
- Learn about the different methodologies used to study these topics;
- See how psychology has been applied in these areas.
Contact
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Event Fee
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Registration closes on 6th May 2025 at 23:59 BST.
Sessions in our Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace Webinar Series
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