Management School News

The Institute of Work Psychology at the Management School is delighted to announce the business keynote for this year’s IWP International Conference on Work, Wellbeing and Performance: Thriving in times of uncertainty.

The business keynote on the afternoon of the 27th of June will take the form of a panel session. Our distinguished speakers will take part in a discussion around engaging employees in times of uncertainty, chaired by David Carew, Chief Psychologist at the Department for Work and Pensions.

We are delighted to introduce our panel:

• Panel Chair: David Carew CPsychol, Chief Psychologist, Department for Work and Pensions
• Mick Hood, HR Director, Tata Steel
• Alison McKinna, Operations Director, Tribal
• Jochen Barth, Business Psychologist, &samhoud

Find out more about the panel at:
http://conference.iwp.dept.shef.ac.uk/keynotes/Business

The IWP International Conference 2012 is being held from 26th to 28th June at the Mercure St. Paul’s Hotel, Sheffield City Centre. It is hosted by the Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield, a distinctive community of researchers focused on work psychology and related areas, such as organisational behaviour and human resource management.

For further information about the 3rd Biennial IWP International Conference 2012 visit: http://conference.iwp.dept.shef.ac.uk/

The 12th annual Management Lecture took place in the Octagon Centre on 21st March and featured Sir Roger Bone, President of Boeing UK.

Sir Roger discussed Boeing´s global structure and supply chain management, as well as the company´s latest products, such as the 787 Dreamliner passenger plane.

The Management Lecture is a joint venture between the Management School and Sheffield Business School at Sheffield Hallam University. This year, the Management Lecture formed part of the launch of Sheffield’s Global Manufacturing Festival.  The Global Manufacturing Festival is a great forum for businesses operating in high technology, high quality, export-led manufacturing supply chains. Due to their active involvement in supporting new technology and innovations within the supply chain through high level research output, both the Management School and the University are strong supporters of the Global Manufacturing Festival.

Ian Proctor, Head of Business Development and External Relations at the Management School, said: “This was a fascinating insight into high level manufacturing and we were delighted the lecture was so well attended. Both the Management School and the University are very committed to working with businesses, regionally, nationally and internationally and are very actively involved with the local community. The lecture stimulated a great deal of lively discussion and was well received by all who attended.”

Master Cutler Pam Liversidge launched the Global Manufacturing Festival at the event and was joined by Titan the robot who entertained guests with some songs and a dance before they took their seats for the Management Lecture.

Professor Keith Glaister, Dean of the Management School, said: “We were delighted to welcome Sir Roger Bone, President of Boeing UK, as our speaker at this year’s Management Lecture.  The combination of Sir Roger’s experience within the diplomatic service coupled with his profile as a leading industrialist with expertise in aerospace made for a fascinating evening.”

Further information about this story:

Global Manufacturing Festival: www.globalmanufacturingfestival.com/

Management Lecture series: www.sheffield.ac.uk/management/sml

IWP at the Management School are delighted to announce the EAWOP Small Group Meeting “Advances in the Psychology of Entrepreneurship” will take place in Sheffield between June 29th and July 1st 2012.

The meeting will take place immediately after the IWP Conference 2012. The aim of this small group meeting is to advance the field of Psychology of Entrepreneurship in Europe and beyond. This will be achieved by bringing together researchers working in the field and stimulating intense discussion, by encouraging participants to make links between each other’s work and by stimulating cross cultural collaboration. The contributions for the meeting will be clustered around four broad topics. Provisionally, these are:

1. Entrepreneurial Personality: From trait to process and interaction;
2. Advancing research on entrepreneurial careers;
3. Entrepreneurial leadership; and
4. Affect and cognition in entrepreneurship. A cross-cutting theme throughout the meeting will be to draw attention to cultural aspects.

The meeting also entails a number of keynote speakers chosen among top-level researchers in the broader field of the Psychology of Entrepreneurship. Confirmed keynote speakers include:

• Prof. Dr. Michael Frese, National University of Singapore and Leuphana University
• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Wegge, Dresden University of Technology
• Prof. Dr. John Arnold, University of Sheffield

How can you take part?
The number of participants is restricted to 25. To participate please submit a paper to the Small Group Meeting organisers (see below) by March 1st 2012. There is no fee for participation. Please see the full call for papers here.

Meeting Organisers

• Dr. Marjan Gorgievski, Erasmus Univeristy Rotterdam, Netherlands gorgievski@fsw.eur.nl
• Dr Ute Stephan, University of Sheffield, UK: See Ute’s profile at
  http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/management/staff/stephan or email u.stephan@sheffield.ac.uk

The Small Group Meeting is sponsored by EAWOP – the European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology.

We are delighted to announce that immediately after the IWP Conference 2012 the EAWOP Small Group Meeting “Advances in the Psychology of Entrepreneurship” will take place in Sheffield (June 29 – July 1st, 2012).

The aim of this small group meeting is to advance the field of Psychology of Entrepreneurship in Europe and beyond. This will be achieved by bringing together researchers working in the field and stimulating intense discussion, by encouraging participants to make links between each other’s work and by stimulating cross cultural collaboration. The contributions for the meeting will be clustered around four broad topics. Provisionally, these are 1) Entrepreneurial Personality: From trait to process and interaction; 2) Advancing research on entrepreneurial careers; 3) Entrepreneurial leadership; and 4) Affect and cognition in entrepreneurship. A cross-cutting theme throughout the meeting will be to draw attention to cultural aspects.

The meeting also entails a number of keynote speakers chosen among top-level researchers in the broader field of the Psychology of Entrepreneurship. Confirmed international keynote speakers include
Professor Per Davidsson, QUT Business School, Australia
Professor Michael Frese, National University of Singapore and Leuphana University Germany
Professor Lorraine Uhlaner, EDHEC Business School, France
Professor Juergen Wegge, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Confirmed UK keynote speakers include
Professor John Arnold, University of Sheffield, UK

How can you take part?
The number of participants is restricted to 25. To participate please submit a paper to the Small Group Meeting organisers (see below) by March 15, 2012. There will be no fees for participation. Please see the full call for papers here.

Meeting Organisers
Dr. Marjan Gorgievski, Erasmus Univeristy Rotterdam, Netherlands gorgievski@fsw.eur.nl
Dr Ute Stephan, University of Sheffield, UK u.stephan@sheffield.ac.uk

The Small Group Meeting is sponsored by EAWOP – the European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology, the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Sheffield.

More information at the IWP Conference Website

Dr Kamal Birdi has been invited to give the Keynote Address on Innovation and Creativity at the Division of Occupational Pyschology (DOP) 2012 Conference of the British Psychological Society.

He will be speaking on the topic of ‘Turning ideas into innovations? A review of creativity training in organisations’.

The increasingly dynamic and competitive conditions of the 21st Century are raising the need for organizations to innovate more frequently and more effectively.  However, there has been relatively little evaluation of the effectiveness of creativity training interventions.  Dr Birdi will review perspectives from innovation research, and identify factors influencing creativity training effectiveness in the workplace.  Three important lessons will be discussed:

1. That the knowledge and skills required for idea generation are different for those needed for implementation of those ideas in organisations.
2. That development of creative motivation and self-efficacy are as important as the development of creative thinking skills for the long-term success of such initiatives.
3. That the work environment can play a significant role in influencing the transfer of creativity training back to the workplace.

The presentation will also report on a new model of innovation training called Clear Idea, which develops the skills needed for both generating creative solutions and facilitating their successful implementation.

Dr Kamal Birdi has been engaging in research and practice in the areas of organisational innovation, learning and performance for nearly twenty years at the Institute of Work Psychology. He developed a training evaluation framework called the Taxonomy of Training and Development Outcomes (TOTADO) aimed at improving evaluation practice and has now produced a practical training system (CLEAR IDEA) designed to enhance the innovativeness of employees. In 2010, he was given the DOP Academic Contribution to Practice Award in light of his efforts to apply research to enhancing organisational processes.

For further information about the on the conference see: http://www.bps.org.uk/dop2012