Management School News

Staff and students from the Institute of Work Psychology (IWP) are once again a powerful presence at the British Psychological Society’s Division of Occupational Psychology Conference in Chester, taking place on 9-11 January.

The conference is the flagship conference for the Occupational Psychology profession in the UK. We are proud to announce that  IWP has posters and symposia delivered by four of our recently-graduated MSc students, a current PhD student, and four of our academic staff. Numerous alumni of the IWP are also presenting their work. IWP contributions are as follows:

Dr Kamal Birdi is presenting his research looking into the effectiveness of knowledge sharing in European police organisations.

Dr Angela Carter has organised a symposium of papers relating to how Occupational Psychologists can support young people in their pursuit of employment.  As well as facilitating a group discussion, Dr Carter is presenting her model that explores issues of youth employment.

Dr Karoline Strauss has been invited to showcase her work by the Division, as an illustration of exemplary research suitable for the upcoming Research Excellence Framework review.  Dr Strauss’ presentation focuses on proactive behaviour at work, and its relation to individuals’ careers.

Natalie Clark is presenting her MSc dissertation on employee development, which examines how an organisation can maximise its return on investment in austere times.  Natalie worked alongside Stuart Duff from Pearn Kandola Business Psychologists, and was supervised by Prof John Arnold.

Leanne Ingram and Marc Van Huizen are co-presenting their study into the implementation and evaluation of mindfulness training.  Marc and Leanne carried out their MSc projects with Dr Nadine Mellor of the Health and Safety Laboratory at Buxton, and were supervised by Prof John Arnold.

Stephen McGlynn, a PhD student at IWP, is hosting a series of communication workshops at the Conference, and is also graduating from the Division’s Leadership Development Programme, a new initiative designed to develop future leaders of the profession.

Emma Rowett is presenting a poster on her MSc project, which investigated the factors that lead to proactive behaviour.  Emma was supervised by Dr Karoline Strauss.

For more information on IWP go to http://www.shef.ac.uk/management/iwp/about

A paper by Dr. Ute Stephan University of Sheffield Management School with Christian Hopp from the University of Vienna, has been published in the 2012 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. The Best Paper Proceedings is a publication for papers considered to be in the top 10% of those presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting. This is one of the largest meetings of management scholars in the world and took place in early August in Boston, USA. The paper is entitled “The influence of socio-cultural environments on the performance of nascent entrepreneurs”. 

‘Employee Volunteering – What have you got to Offer?’ – The Third Meeting of the Employee Volunteering Network.

Half day workshop taking place on Tuesday 24th July 9.30am – 1pm

KC Stadium, Hull, Main Entrance, West Stand, Hull – Needler Suite

Background to the event

This is a joint event hosted and sponsored by KC with the Hull University Business School and the University of Sheffield Management School. It is designed to bring together business, public and third
sector organisations to explore the value in working together to develop employee volunteering for maximum community and business impact.

This is an ongoing network of organisations and professionals that work in the field of employee volunteering and participation and it also is open to anyone who is working in this field. This meeting of the network focuses upon the need for a stronger partnership approach which matches the requirements of both business and third sector partners. Including the marketing and costing needs for the third sector and the skills and development requirements of employers. It is hoped that by creating a space for organisations to come together that new more effective ways of working will emerge.

The workshop will feature presentations from organisations developing brokerage and marketing models around ESV and will begin with open plenary presentations by Anna Millar (KC), Nigel Mills and Emma Platt-Lowe (Humber East Yorkshire Community Foundation) and Dave Smith (The Social Enterprise Support Centre, Leeds) and Tim McGinley (University of Reading). The remainder of the workshop will then be spent in working groups where we will develop an outline of the component that each party needs to gain from ESV. Followed by a short feedback session and ending with a lift-pitch/speed dating session over lunch. It should be fun!

The event is free to attend. To register please follow this link.


There is also a linkedin group linked to the network which you can join here.

£800 has been awarded to Professor Lenny Koh from the ESRC to organise an event around the title below:

Fuel poverty: it’s there but you can’t see it!

This project builds upon the success of the BIG Energy Upgrade (BEU) Programme, a multi-partner regional project which is focused on tackling fuel poverty through energy efficiency improvements in the 10% most deprived communities in Yorkshire and the Humber.

This debate will look at how fuel poverty is defined; how it is identified particularly by those who operate on the ground; what are the practices and methodologies used by GPs and the NHS in detecting those illnesses associated with fuel poverty. The overarching aim of the debate will be to gather evidence on how fuel poverty is detected by staff working on the “frontline” and what systems and processes are in place to tackle it.

For more information about Professor Koh’s research, please see:  www.shef.ac.uk/management/staff/koh

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/

Invited as a Chief Guest to Noorul Islam University, in Tamil Nadu, India, for the International Conference on Modelling, Optimisation and Computing, Professor Lenny Koh, Associate Dean of The University of Sheffield Management School, delivered a speech at the inaugural session of the conference, and was accompanied by the Chancellor of the University and Chairman of NIMS Medicity, Dr. A.P. Majeed Khan, and Pro Chancellor and MD of NIMS Medicity, M.S Faizal Khan for a visit to Medicity. As part of this visit, Prof Koh has also planted a tree to mark her visit and an important collaboration.

Prof Koh said: ‘This visit and tree planting event are great ways to celebrate the relation with the University and Medicity, and also to contribute to the co celebration of the Queen Diamond Jubilee for her Majesty in Great Britain. A dialog has taken place on various collaborative and innovative ideas which will bring some multi disciplinary research together to benefit the most needed community and society. This civic engagement will form a very important bridge between Sheffield and India.’

The Noorul Islam Educational Trust was established in the year 1956 under the Chairmanship of Dr. A.P. Majeed Khan, to impart Technical / Science / Medical Education to the Society, particularly to the rural segment of the society) The institutions of the Trust have distinguished themselves in many ways earning the reputation as well-managed institutions imparting excellent technical, science and management education.

Further information:

Visit the Noorul Islam University website at: http://www.niuniv.com/

The University of Sheffield Management School is proud to be involved in organising the 4th International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC) to be held in Birmingham, UK from September 12-14, 2012. Each year ISIRC brings together the international academic community focusing on social entrepreneurship, enterprise and innovation. Confirmed speakers include Dennis Young (Georgia State University), Alex Nicholls (Oxford University), Graham Smith (University of Southampton), Pascal Dey (St Gallen University), Pete Alcock (University of Birmingham), Fergus Lyon (Middlesex University) and Roger Spear (the Open University).

The deadline for abstract submissions is Friday 20 April.  Please see the website http://www.tsrc.ac.uk/NewsandEvents/ISIRC/tabid/875/Default.aspx for more details.

The conference organisers will be editing a special issue of the International Journal of Public Sector Management ( http://www.tsrc.ac.uk/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=0CwPlpXjbAo%3D&tabid=392&mid=959) drawing upon papers from the conference. Other selected papers will be fast-tracked for publication in Social Enterprise Journal and the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship.

Dr Ute Stephan member of the Institute of Work Psychology and the Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development, and director of the new MSc in Leadership is involved in ISIRC on behalf of the University of Sheffield Management School.

The Institute of Work Psychology is pleased to announce that registration for the 3rd Biennial IWP International Conference 2012 on ‘Work, Wellbeing and Performance: Thriving in times of uncertainty,’ is now open.

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.

To register:

Please visit http://www.iwpconference.org/delegate for further details on delegate fees and how to register.

Further information:

Registration is now open for the Pre Conference Workshops and the Postgraduate Early Careers Event on Tuesday 26th June, and the main conference event on Wednesday 27th June and Thursday 28th June. Delegates can also register for the Conference Gala Event to be held at the Cutlers Hall, Sheffield City Centre on Wednesday 27th June.

• For more information about the conference please visit: http://conference.iwp.dept.shef.ac.uk/

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

Registration is now open for the Pre Conference Workshops and Postgraduate Early Careers Event on Tuesday 26th June, and the main conference event on Wednesday 27th June and Thursday 28th June. Delegates can also register for the Conference Gala Event to be held at the Cutlers Hall, Sheffield City Centre on Wednesday 27th June.

More information at the IWP Conference Website