Call for Evidence: Conducting a Rapid Evidence Assessment for People Management Competencies and Their Impact on Performance, Wellbeing, Engagement and Inclusion
Over ten years ago, research identified a set of manager competencies that help prevent and reduce workplace stress. This framework, known as the Management Competencies for Preventing and Reducing Stress (MCPARS), has since been widely recognised, used and updated.
But the world of work has changed. Today, organisations are facing new challenges and opportunities. Priorities like equality, diversity, inclusion, wellbeing, belonging, engagement, and business performance are increasingly seen as interconnected, and interdependent and, managers play a crucial role in bringing these together. At the same time, the financial climate makes it more important than ever to show how good management practices deliver both healthy workplaces and strong business results.
On behalf of the CIPD, Affinity Health at Work are now conducting a rapid evidence review to update our understanding of which managerial competencies matter most today. In particular, we want to identify the skills and behaviours that have a measurable impact on:
- Performance
- Wellbeing
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
- Engagement
The insights gathered will feed into the development of a new, integrated and evidence-based framework of manager competencies. This framework will help organisations build the skills of their managers in ways that directly support both people and business outcomes.
We are seeking evidence that can shed light on this topic from organisations, practitioners, and researchers to shape this important update.
There are two specific areas of research which we would like to receive through this call:
- Area 1: Reviews and meta-analyses for performance, wellbeing, and engagement: For these outcomes, where there is already a substantial body of research, we are gathering key systematic reviews and meta-analyses to capture the most robust and up-to-date insights.
- Area 2: Individual studies and reviews on EDI: Where EDI is a comparatively newer focus of research, with a less established and more diffuse evidence base, we are seeking any key relevant studies and reviews where they are available.
Please submit any relevant research using the submission form below. We are open to both academic and grey literature sources of good quality and are mainly looking for research from 2020 onwards, however please do share any study you believe is key from any year as this can inform the background. We thank you in advance for your contribution.
