Potential future project based on the learning gained from the journal article writing, blog development and personal reflection on the Opposites Attract project
Topic: Promoting and evaluating staff well-being in healthcare organisations
Issue: Sustainability reporting in business and healthcare focus on evaluating financial and environmental performance. Social sustainability is missed or concentrates on the customer/client/patient point of view. Sustaining staff well-being and job satisfaction is not always evident in sustainability reports of healthcare organisations.
Research questions
- How can healthcare staff well-being be improved?
- How can staff well-being be evaluated in healthcare organisation sustainability reporting?
Research Design
Methodology – mixed methods
Method – case study
Sample – convenience and snowball sampling for volunteer participants who will be staff members from 5 healthcare organisations
Data collection and analysis
- Quantitative data
- Social indicators, job satisfaction tool and well-being questionnaire – descriptive and inferential statistics
- Retrospective sustainability reports – documentary analysis
- Qualitative data
- Focus groups and semi-structured 1:1 interviews exploring why people have or do not have job satisfaction and things which promote and discourage staff well-being – qualitative descriptive analysis
Potential outputs
- Description of factors enhancing and hindering staff well-being leading to job satisfaction in healthcare organisations.
- Recommendations for conducting a social audit of healthcare staff as an evaluation of staff well-being in social sustainability reporting.
