Research proposal

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

  1. How can healthcare staff well-being be improved?
  2. 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

  1. Description of factors enhancing and hindering staff well-being leading to job satisfaction in healthcare organisations.
  2. Recommendations for conducting a social audit of healthcare staff as an evaluation of staff well-being in social sustainability reporting.
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