Society Events
What's in it for me? Does the Psychological Contract deliver Engagement?
Date: Wed, Oct 15th, 2008 6:00:01 pm | Location: The Telegraph, 111, Buckingham Palace Rd., London SW1W 0DT | Speaker: Professor Rob Briner, Birkbeck College
One of the aims of the Recruitment Society is to debate and discuss best practice in recruitment. However, the process of hiring an individual does not finish there. The assimilation process is in every sense as important as the hiring process. Indeed, however rigorous a selection process used, the performance of some people is, to use an understatement, disappointing.
A critical issue for all those in a working environment is how they relate emotionally to the organisation and the environment around them. Problems in this area lead to poor performance levels.
Professor Rob Briner has studied people's behaviour in the workplace most of his working life and has almost unique experience in researching and reviewing closely the performance of organisations and the interaction between employers and employees. He feels that an informal understanding, a "psychological contract" between people is far more effective than contracts of employments in boosting performance.
How then can these informal approaches to developing enhanced workplace performance be adopted more formally by organisations without negating the benefits of informality? To what extent does the current financial crisis influence attempts at engagement? This should generate a fascinating debate around the subject of the management of recruitment and retention and we can be sure that with Rob we will deliver a lively presentation.
Rob is much than an academic: he is currently on the editorial board of a number of journals, and he is also involved with a number of initiatives around evidence-based management and has extensive contacts with the commercial world. His CV runs to a staggering 17 pages - see link from http://www.bbk.ac.uk/manop/orgpsychology/staff/briner/briner.shtml.
We should like to thank Telegraph Media Group for their sponsorship and for hosting this event.
Contact: 0207 917 1728 / 07973 767316
Email: admin@recruitmentsociety.org.uk
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