How do we create the culture within an organisation? What does it mean to be able to bring your whole self to work… and who gets to do it?

In this fourth episode of Corporate Bodies, Kate and Mark explore organisational culture, the psychological conditions that enable us to show up fully at work, how professionalism is coded in terms of race, sex and gender, and who gets to feel safe in the workspace.

They also interview Immy Kaur, Co-Founder and Director at CIVIC SQUARE, who talks about the challenges of creating a socially just organisation, balancing the desire to build a good workplace with the need to deliver the work, and the personal impacts of navigating racialised and gendered perceptions of competence and accountability.

Resources:

Find more about the origins of the idea of bringing our whole selves to work here.

Find out more about the history of employment contracts here.

Read the article accompanying the episode here.

Articles, organisations and resources referenced during this episode:

CIVIC SQUARE

TedX Brum

Indy Johar

Project 00

Dark Matter Labs

Annette Dhami

Beyond the Rules

Contract-ing Between the Rules: Employment contracts

Grace Lee Boggs

Dr Gabor Maté

Farzana Khan

Staci Haines

Shared Assets

We Can Make

Portland Inn Project

East Marsh United

Land In Our Names

MAIA Group

Dark Matter Labs FreeHouse

Centre for Indigenous Innovation and Technology

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Presenters:

Kate Swade (she/her), independent organisational development and governance consultant

Mark Walton (he/him), Founder and Director, Shared Assets

Interviewee: Immy Kaur (she/her), Co-Founder & Director, CIVIC SQUARE

Editor: Katie Revell (she/her)

Artwork: Hanna Norberg-Williams (they/them)

Music: fête beat by Jean Toba

Supporters:

The series is supported by the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), which is a cutting edge research organisation based at the University of Surrey. CUSP explores the question: What does prosperity mean in a world of environmental, social, and economic limits? For more details, visit cusp.ac.uk.

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