Lone Working, Mental Health and Guidance For Employers
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Read Full ArticleIn a study conducted on behalf of the Advance Workplace Institute (AWI), trust, social cohesion and information sharing are all elements vulnerable to damage during home working.
The study warns that without active management to respond to changes in working, team dynamics are at risk with a knock-on effect on both employee happiness and performance.
The AWI partnered with the Centre for Evidence Based Management, a global network of academics, to analyse all the relevant research. It studied 35 primary studies and ten meta-analyses (which themselves drew on 715 original studies) to produce a report, “Managing The Virtual Workforce.”
“Virtual working is here to stay, and this brings serious challenges for managing the modern workforce,” says Andrew Mawson of Advanced Workplace Associates, the consultancy which founded the AWI.
“The role of leadership is about creating the conditions for growth and directing the energy. When we are working in a more virtualised model, old models become more difficult and we need new understandings and practices to deliver success in a virtualised world.”
–Andrew Mawson
Owner, Advanced Workplace Associates
The report has six main conclusions:
Members of the AWI have noted that organisations globally have adapted quickly to the need for the vast majority of their workforces to operate from home. However, they warn that these are early days in the workplace revolution, and that management strategies will need to change to ensure teams can work as well virtually as they did in a single office.
“Organisations increasingly need to harness their knowledge resources as opposed to controlling and ‘managing’ them,” added Andrew Mawson.
“The role of leadership is about creating the conditions for growth and directing the energy. When we are working in a more virtualised model, old models become more difficult and we need new understandings and practices to deliver success in a virtualised world.”
Picture: A photograph of a person working from home at a dining table. The person photographed is a wheelchair-user.
Article written by Ella Tansley | Published 17 June 2020
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