HR Practitioners’ Meeting
Positive Organizational Behaviour and Work Engagement:
Striving on strengths and the international corporate experience
Wednesday, 23rd April 2008
Time: 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Venue: FHRD, San Gwann
Members: €11.65 (incl VAT)
Non Members: €23.29 (incl VAT)
Please click the following link for a Registration Form
http://www.fhrd.org/RegistrationForm.pdf
Brief
How can companies strive? Lynda Gratton of London Business School argues that the only route to improved performance is by placing your human resource at the centre of your strategic decision-making. More recently, this has been taken a step further. Fuelled by a new movement of positive organizational behavior, companies are giving more and more relevance to human capital or psychological capital as it is sometimes called. Indeed organizations expect their employees to be proactive, to take responsibility for their own professional development and to be committed to high quality performance standards (Bakker & Schaufeli, 2008). In other words, employers want their employees to be engaged but this is changing in such a way that belongingness becomes a viable goal in itself. Studies about engagement with companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange reveal that engaged employees are happier, more resilient and perform better such that ROI of such companies have increased. This seminar will explain the evolution of the Positive Organizational Behavior Movement taking place in major Business Schools and how the forthcoming principles are being applied to fuel the next generation of companies to ensure they strive from within by engaging their employees more effectively.
Speaker’s Profile
Dr. Vincent Cassar is a Chartered Organizational Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and a Chartered Scientist with the British Science Council. He holds an MSc in Occupational Psychology from the University of Cardiff and a PhD in Organizational Psychology from Birkbeck College, University of London. Vincent has taught for over 12 years at the University of Malta. He is a co-founder of Mediterranean Cultural Encounters Ltd and is presently the Mediterranean Partner for Sirota Inc, a US-UK consultancy company specializing in corporate engagement surveys, amongst others. Many of Sirota’s clients are Fortune 100 companies and include Nestle, Solvay, BP, Shell and Canon. In addition, Vincent has teaching and research engagements in the Department of Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck College and is involved in the development of an Evidence-Based Practice Unit with Professor Rob Briner in the same department. He also acts as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals and the American Academy of Management’s OB and Entrepreneurship section. His research interests include entrepreneurship, work and well-being, psychological contracts and career developments, organizational development and positive organizational scholarship.
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