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For line managers — The levers you already control

Dr Mary Wyatt

How people are managed is linked to their health, their effort, whether problems surface early and how quickly people return to work after injury or illness.

Someone has handed you this article because you manage people, and more of your team's wellbeing rides on you than on anyone else in the building. There's a practical payoff in that. Managers who handle the everyday well have fewer of the situations that eat up a month — the complaint that escalates, the absence that drifts, the injured worker who never quite comes back. How people are managed is linked to their health, their effort, wheth...

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Published 10 November, 2026