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Line manager training and organisational approaches to supporting wellbeing (2024)
Journal Article
Dulal-Arthur, T., Hassard, J., Bourke, J., Roper, S., Wishart, M., Belt, V., Bartle, C., Leka, S., Pahl, N., Thomson, L., & Blake, H. (2024). Line manager training and organisational approaches to supporting wellbeing. Occupational Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqae051

Background Employee mental health and well-being (MH&WB) is critical to the productivity and success of organizations. Training line managers (LMs) in mental health plays an important role in protecting and enhancing employee well-being, but its rel... Read More about Line manager training and organisational approaches to supporting wellbeing.

More absence, but less impact on business performance. What can we learn from Swedish approaches to managing workplace mental health? (2024)
Report
Wishart, M., Roper, S., Belt, V., Bourke, J., Hassard, J., Blake, H., …Leka, S. (2024). More absence, but less impact on business performance. What can we learn from Swedish approaches to managing workplace mental health?. Enterprise Research Centre

Using employer-level survey data, this report compares how firms in England, Ireland and Sweden are responding to the challenges of workplace mental health. The three countries adopt very different approaches to the funding and provision of healthcar... Read More about More absence, but less impact on business performance. What can we learn from Swedish approaches to managing workplace mental health?.

Typology of employers offering line manager training for mental health (2024)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Hassard, J., Dulal-Arthur, T., Wishart, M., Roper, S., Bourke, J., …Thomson, L. (2024). Typology of employers offering line manager training for mental health. Occupational Medicine, 74(3), 242-250. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqae025

Background Mental ill health has a high economic impact on society and employers. National and international policy advocates line manager (LM) training in mental health as a key intervention, but little is known about employer training provisions. A... Read More about Typology of employers offering line manager training for mental health.

Navigating the Path to Success: Exploring methods to integrate workforce digital training within organisations (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Siddiqui, M., Dulal-Arthur, T., Vaughan, B., Thomson, L., Bartle, C., Hassard, J., & Blake, H. (2023). Navigating the Path to Success: Exploring methods to integrate workforce digital training within organisations. In ICERI2023 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2023.1183

With the proliferation of e-learning in the workplace, organisations demand new ways to transform the employee's learning experience, maintain engagement with learning and ensure that it is sustained into continuing growth and development. Ensuring t... Read More about Navigating the Path to Success: Exploring methods to integrate workforce digital training within organisations.

Digital Training Program for Line Managers (Managing Minds at Work): Protocol for A Feasibility Pilot Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial (2023)
Journal Article
Thomson, L., Hassard, J., Frost, A., Bartle, C., Yarker, J., Munir, F., …Blake, H. (2023). Digital Training Program for Line Managers (Managing Minds at Work): Protocol for A Feasibility Pilot Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 12, Article e48758. https://doi.org/10.2196/48758

Background: Mental health problems affect 1 in 6 workers annually and are one of the leading causes of sickness absence, with stress, anxiety, and depression being responsible for half of all working days lost in the United Kingdom. Primary intervent... Read More about Digital Training Program for Line Managers (Managing Minds at Work): Protocol for A Feasibility Pilot Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial.