...Peadar Gardiner Purpose This study examines the role of line managers in supporting workplace mental health within non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the West of Ireland, a predominantly rural and coastal region comprising counties Mayo, Galway, Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon, addressing...

...Mejse Hasle; Claudia Manca; Kasper Edwards; Christine Ipsen Purpose This study explores how line managers make sense of their evolving roles as hybrid work managers. Drawing on sensemaking theory, it discloses the new meanings and interpretations that line managers provide to their roles and how...

...Eyvind Helland; Marit Christensen; Siw Tone Innstrand; Karina Nielsen Purpose This paper explores line managers' proactive work behaviors in organizational interventions and ascertains how their management of their middle-levelness by aligning with the intervention, or not, influences...

... leaders at strategic (senior management) and operational (line managers) positions engaged with the intervention. Findings Thematic analysis uncovered 6 themes and 16 sub-themes covering the leaders’ initial reactions to the intervention, barriers to leader engagement, ways in which the intervention...

... Wickramasinghe can be contacted at: vathsala@mot.mrt.ac.lk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Supervisor support, Work schedule flexibility, Job stress Sri Lanka Flexibility Workplace Line managers Employee counselling There has been a growing recognition of job stress...