Standard 2 involves:
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Ensuring employees have good physical workplace conditions
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Offering ways for employees to give feedback on how work design, culture and conditions contribute to poor mental health
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Reviewing the impact that activities like organisational design and redesign, job design, recruitment, working patterns, email, “always-on” culture, and work-related policies have on employees
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Working to ensure employees have good work-life balance and ability to work flexibly and in an agile manner.
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Looking to encourage openness throughout employment (including during recruitment) so that appropriate support can be put in place.
CIPD resources
Understand the links between work, health and wellbeing, and the role of stakeholders in adopting an organisational approach to employee wellbeing
Explore the purpose and evolution job design, the role of effective job design in creating good work, and assessing job quality
Explore the benefits of flexible working, the types of arrangements commonly used and gives practical tips on implementing flexible working practices
Outlines employers’ health and safety obligations in the UK
Top tips that will help you and your team get the most out of homeworking
This factsheet looks at the main stages of the resourcing and recruitment process, from defining the role to making the appointment
Advice on how organisations can begin to prepare for a return to the workplace and a longer term move to hybrid working
Watch a video and download the slides from our webinar on how you can provide ongoing support for the health and wellbeing of your employees, including those living with long COVID (recorded in December 2020)