Research Projects
The Management School has a vibrant and varied research environment working with a wide range of partners and research consortiums from within the institution and externally at a local, national and international level. Our research aspires to create new knowledge that can benefit the wider world; contributing to the academic community whilst impacting the economy, society and cultures in which we live. Why not take a look at some of our current research projects?
Evaluating and improving learning effectiveness in organisations
Using a range of methodologies, the aim is to provide practical guidance and tools to help organisations enhance the efficacy of their learning activities.
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Developing employee creativity and organisational innovation
This project sets out to explore strategies for enhancing employees´ ability to generate new ideas and the organisation´s capacity for implementing those new ideas.
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Unacceptable Behaviour, Health and Well-being at Work
Using an innovative approach, the broad aim of the research is to advance and diffuse knowledge of the causal relationships between work-related violence and well-being outcomes for employees.
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Business-driven Social Change - A Systematic Review of Evidence
Organisations including social enterprises, but also commercial businesses are increasingly seeking to drive positive social change. For instance, a supermarket chain stimulates their consumers to eat more healthily, an apparel company incentivizes customers to exercise more, and a global consumer-goods business prevents illness and deaths through leading a culture-change on hand-washing. To investigate this phenomenon we conducted a systematic review to collate the best available evidence to date on how organisations, small and large, can create positive societal change towards more sustainability.
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Intervening to enhance eudaimonic well-being: The Active Workforce Initiative
Eudaimonic well-being captured optimal psychological functioning, including states and capacities that are critical for dealing with and contributing to continuous change.
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Social Entrepreneurs as Lead Users for Service Innovation (SELUSI)
We aim to distill new public policy insights that can inform EU and national policy-making with respect to the competitiveness of the service sector, the roles of social ventures and service innovation. We also experiment with strategies how companies and social entrepreneurs can collaborate to create sustainable and social service innovations.
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Quality and Safety in the NHS: Evaluating Progress, Problems and Promise
Eevaluates how organisational culture and behaviour related to quality and safety in the NHS has changed in the light of recent policy initiatives including the White Paper of July 2010. Using a variety of surveys and case studies, it will produce sustainable learning about how to secure a focus on quality and safety.
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Staff Satisfaction and Organisational Performance: Evidence from the NHS Staff Survey
This is an 18-month project, analysing existing data to determine links between staff attitudes and behaviours and organisational performance in the NHS.
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From metrics to meaning: Culture change and quality of acute hospital care for older people
The project focuses on organizational culture and patient care in one area of the NHS where the importance of culture and the need for cultural change has already been identified as central to the delivery of improved care: Acute health services for older people.
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Working at a Distance
This research stream is concerned with the impacts and effectiveness of virtual and mobile work. It involves a range of projects in different work contexts aimed at understanding the role that technology mediated communication and collaboration has on well-being and the way people work.
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Worker Well-being and Motivation
This project focuses particularly on processes within a person rather than merely influences from the environment, for example examining job-related wants and continuing personality dispositions in relation to different forms of well-being.
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The Management of Careers in and out of Organisations
This is a collection of related projects involving several IWP staff and doctoral students. All are at different stages. It includes the development of organisational career capital; the experience of leaving education and trying to enter the labour market; how people in work to which they are unsuited cope with this; the career development of people over 50 years old; designing jobs that meet people’s career needs; and the contribution of leisure activities to career development.
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Perspective taking within organizations
Perspective taking is about being able to see the world from another´s perspective. It is about `stepping into the shoes´ of another person and seeing their view point. It is not the same as agreeing with someone, or automatically accepting their view point. Rather it is about being able to see where they are coming from. Read More
Formalising Work in Healthcare Settings
This project will analyse the impact of protocol-based care on organisational, patient, staff outcomes, including the costs, quality and effectiveness of care. Read More
A Strategic Vision for Education in the 21st Century
Evaluating the Future of the UK´s Education System Read More
Tackling undeclared work in the European Union
The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has funded Professor Colin C Williams to evaluate policy approaches for tackling undeclared work in the European Union Read More
Energy2b
Energy2B is an interactive project at the University of Sheffield which aims to raise energy awareness and inspire students to make the world more sustainable. Read More