Workplace stress is a focus of much public discussion today – and for good reason. The Stress and Wellbeing survey, conducted by the Australian Psychological Society, found that, while workplace wellbeing fluctuated year on year that the survey was undertaken, it was lower in 2015 to what it had been in 2011 while workplace stress was higher. This blog explores how sociological knowledge can help to illuminate current debates faced by organisations about how best to approach

“Narrative analysis has both a long history and is an umbrella term for multiple, often quite distinct but sometimes overlapping (and sometimes confusing) approaches. Narrative approaches are diverse, and discourses depicting their complexity are correct.” Emily Bishop, 2012: 371 Narratives make us human. Narrative researchers claim that narratives are our means of sense-making. Clandinin and Rosiek (2007: 55) describe narrative inquiry as beginning “with a pragmatic ontology

Researchers estimate that toxic workplaces costs companies almost $14,000 per employee due to loss of productivity, with unhappy employees projecting their frustrations onto clients and customers, and the overall quality of work decreasing. In Australia the national resignation rate has seen the sharpest rise in five years and 67% of Australian employers say they have seen an increase in staff turnover, with many experiencing the flow on effect of loss of productivity and rev