Management practices and employee engagement

ESRC is inviting proposals from researchers at eligible UK research organisations to carry out research on management practices and employee engagement, and their relationships with productivity.

ESRC is seeking research proposals in the following areas: 

1. Variation in management practices, employee engagement, drivers of that variation and relationship with productivity outcomes
2. Exploring manager and employee engagement, including motivations, trust and absorptive capacity.
3. Adopting, diffusing, scaling and sustaining beneficial innovations and changes in management practices.
4. Opportunities for improvements in productivity, mental health, physical health and wellbeing through innovations in management practices.

PI must be from a UK institution. International funding may amount to 30% or less of the total project budget. 

Funding: £900,000 total

Duration: 3 years 

Research authority due date: 12.9.18