Well-being, Performance and Justice
The Well-being, Performance and Justice (WPJ) research cluster aims to contribute to issues across the social sciences, as well as beyond, through its work on health and well-being, effectiveness, and fairness and equality in workplaces.
The WPJ cluster is a lynchpin, locally and nationally, for generating and disseminating impactful research that contributes to innovations in organizational and working practices. Core projects will involve the integration of the three concepts in the cluster's title and their intersections.
Members of the WPJ are from diverse research traditions and their current research includes:
- effective and ethical leadership
- performance and productivity
- diversity, fairness and (in)equality
- technology well-being and performance
- work–life balance
- remote working
- trust and justice at work
- gender and minority groups
- selection and retention
- reward systems
- individual and team resilience
- attendance behaviour
- organisational interventions
Four principles guide our work, which are to encourage:
- diversity in perspectives and expertise;
- co-creation and co-delivery of research through engagement with external partners;
- high impact scholarship on big issues with innovative implications for policy and practices, and;
- a supportive environment for teamworking and capacity-building of research skills.
We aim, through a combination of selecting topical issues, mixed research methods, engagement with practitioners, and fusion of the talents and knowledge of its members across a range of disciplines, to generate meaningful and long-lasting impact in both academic and policy circles.
People
Cluster Director: Professor Maria Karanika-Murray
Cluster Co-Directors: Professor Stephen Wood and Professor Ana Cristina Costa
| Dr Godbless Akaighe | Work, Employment, Management and Organisations |
| Professor Paul Almond | Law |
| Dr Sally-Anne Barnes | Work, Employment, Management and Organisations |
| Dr John Barratt | Psychology |
| Dr David Bartram | Media, Communication and Sociology |
| Dr Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella | Law |
| Professor Sara Connolly | Work, Employment, Management and Organisations |
| Dr Hoa Do | Work, Employment, Management and Organisations |
| Professor Charlotte Edwardson | Population Health Sciences |
| Professor Matt Flynn | Work, Employment, Management and Organisations |
| Dr Gemma Hughes | Work, Employment, Management and Organisations |
| Pascale Lorber | Law |
| Professor Martin Hyde | Work, Employment, Management and Organisations |
| Professor John Maltby | Psychology |
| Professor Gregory Maniatopoulos | Work, Employment, Management and Organisations |
| Professor Sarah Park | Marketing, Innovation, Strategy and Operations |
| Professor Noelle Robertson | Psychology |
| Elizabeth Robinson | Work, Employment, Management and Organisations |
| Dr Lisa Rodgers | Law |
| Dr Catherine Steele | Psychology |
| Professor Fabio Tufano | Economics, Finance and Accounting |
| Dr Wen Wang | Work, Employment, Management and Organisations |
Blogs
- Collective performance-related pay systems - Professor Stephen Wood
Contact
| Professor Maria Karanika-Murray | maria.km@leicester.ac.uk |
| Professor Stephen Wood | s.j.wood@leicester.ac.uk |
| Professor Ana Cristina Costa | acfdc1@leicester.ac.uk |