UK Work-related Well-being: Organisation Carescapes: - Organisations, Work & Care

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Organisation Carescapes:
The Policies and Practices of Work-related Well-being

Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the research project investigated work and well-being. The aim of the study was to determine to what extent employee well-being policies and practices improve organisational performance. We explored issues which include assistance for caring responsibilities outside of work, occupational health and more flexible working patterns.

• In phase one of the project, we surveyed 103 private, public and third sector organisations across the UK. This allowed us to map the well-being policies that the organisations studied currently have in place.
• During phase two of the study, the team focused on a select number of organisations from the survey and conducted 87 interviews. The interviews considered work and well-being in everyday practice in the workplace.

Outputs

Final Report

• Organisation Carescapes: Policies & Practices of Care in Business Organisations
  McKie, L., Hogg, G., Bowlby, S. and Smith, A. (2009)
  Final Report to the Economic and Social Research Council

Briefing Paper

• Workplace Policies and Practices of Care
  McKie, L., Bowlby, S., Hogg, G. and Smith, A. (2009)
  Briefing Paper published by the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships - Download the PDF

Journal Article

• Researching 'Care' In and Around the Workplace
  Smith, A. and McKie, L. (2009)
  Sociological Research Online. Read this article

Book Chapter

• Conceptualising and Researching 'Care' in Employing Organisations
  McKie, L. and Smith, A. in Lewis, R. et al. (eds)
  Reflections on Researching Families and Relationships, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming)

Working Paper

• Organisation Carescapes: Researching Organisations, Work and Care
  McKie, L., Hearn, J. Bowlby, S., Hogg, G. and Smith, A. (2008)
  Working Paper. Helsinki: Hanken School of Economics. Download the working paper

Recent Conference Presentations 2010

• Professor Jeff Hearn presented a paper entitled 'Articulating Working and Caring Over Time and Space' at the World Congress of Sociology in Gothenburg, Sweden in July 2010.
• Dr. Andrew Smith presented a paper on the 'cultures of care in public sector organisations' at the Work, Employment and Society conference in Brighton, September 2010.
• Professor Linda McKie and Dr Marjut Jyrkinen presented the paper ‘Careerscapes: Reflections on gender and age overtime and space among women managers’ at the European Group for Organization Studies, In Lisbon in July.

Please also see the outputs page.

For further information on this project, please download the information sheet (PDF) Please contact: