About this Event
For the last three years, researchers funded by the Economic and Social Research Council have been investigating ways to make positive transformations in working lives.
Aimed at all HR Practitioners the morning session will provide evidence for development and practical action for the workplace.
Building an inclusive & diverse workplace
Hear from Bianca Stumbitz and Bastien Chabe-Ferret about their research into the transition into parenthood for employees in SMEs. This will be followed by Kim Allen sharing their findings of the experiences of young women in work. Etlyn Kenny and Dulini Fernando will then discuss the enablers and barriers as ethnically and demographically diverse doctors transverse their careers. Jason Hayes will present their findings on young workers and examine recruitment considerations. This includes what young people value in a job, improving the recruitment pool and getting the best from recruitment processes.
Establishing positive workplace relations
Niall Cullinane and Emma Hughes will share how small, consistent improvements in everyday people management lead to more effective HR practices, fewer errors, safer operations, improved job quality and lower turnover rates in warehousing operations. The final speakers will be Stewart Johnstone and Anastasios Hadjisolomou examining how it is important for employees to have a voice at work, how line managers can be supported to ensure people are heard.
Agenda:
The morning session open to all will share the findings of the research and discuss recommendations.
09:00–09:30 Registration
09:30–09:50 Ben Willmott, keynote
09:50–11:15 Building an inclusive & diverse workplace – Part one
11:15–11:30 Break
11:30-12:00 Building an inclusive & diverse workplace – part one
12:00–12:55 Establishing a positive workplace relations
12:55–13:55 Lunch
14:00-16:00 Surgery – using the research for your challenges
The afternoon session is an opportunity to have a deep dive into the research and explore with the researchers how to use the evidence for your workplace.
Important: On the ticket order form, you will be asked to indicate which of the researchers you would like to speak to about your challenges - their topics include:
1. Boosting the work environment and operational performance in warehouses
2. Improving the working lives of young women
3. Contemporary understanding of the role of ethnicity in careers of professional doctors – barriers and enablers
4. Amplifying employee voice and hearing the unheard
5. Getting the best out of young employees transitioning into the workplace
6. Parental leave in SMEs
Researchers:
Bianca Stumbitz is a Senior Research Fellow at Middlesex University Business School. Her research explores workplace support for expectant and new parents with a particular focus on small and medium-sized workplaces. Bianca is Principal Investigator on a three-year ESRC-funded study on the Transition to Parenthood in UK SMEs, in collaboration with Working Families and the Fatherhood Institute. She is passionate about achieving change in policy and practice and, as part of her work, she has been advising employers, trade unions, government departments, international organisations and NGOs.
Bastien Chabe-Ferret is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Middlesex University. His research leverages survey and census data along with economic experiments to explore how social norms interact with public policies to shape behaviour. Bastien has so far inquired about fertility, breastfeeding, parental leave, migration, education and suicide. He is leading the quantitative work stream of the Transition to Parenthood in UK SMEs project.
Stewart Johnstone is Professor HRM and Employment Relations, University of Strathclyde. He is a well-established interest in employee voice and participation, as well as employment restructuring, and HRM in SMEs. He is Principal Investigator of the Strathclyde ESRC funded Amplifying Employee Voice project.
Etlyn Kenny (BSc, MSc, PhD) is a Professor of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. Etlyn is a leading researcher in the field of inclusion in organisations, and her work increases understanding of workplace inclusion for employees facing barriers due to their ethnicity, gender, and social class. Etlyn has held grants from a range of funders including the ESRC, Wellcome and the British Academy and is currently leading on projects to increase understanding of how ethnicity is experienced in medicine, and how to create more race inclusive research cultures within the higher education sector. Etlyn has published her work in leading journals including Human Relations, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology and the Academy of Management Learning and Education. Prior to joining Birmingham Business School in 2014, Etlyn was a lecturer in the Organizational Psychology department of Birkbeck, University of London.
Dulini Fernando (BSc Lancaster, BSc LSE, MSc LSE and PhD Loughborough) is Professor of Work and Organisation at Aston Business School. She researches on highly skilled careers, diversity and inclusion, workplace mistreatment and work in multinational organizations. Dulini’s research has been published in an array of prestigious business and management journals (including the Academy of Management Learning and Education, Academy of Management Discoveries, Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of Vocational Behaviour, Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology and the Journal of World Business) and funded by UKERC, UKRI ESRC, British Academy, Midland Innovation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada and GCRF. In 2021, Dulini was chosen as a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow to examine intersectionality in the careers of skilled refugees. Dulini's research has influenced government policy and organizational practice and is cited in international media. Dulini worked at Warwick Business School from 2013 to 2021 as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Reader and at Manchester Metropolitan University UK from 2021-2022 as Chair of Decent Work and Productivity. She was external examiner for the Honour School of Economics and Management, University of Oxford from 2018-2021. Dulini serves as a member of the ESRC assessor college.
Professor Jason Heyes is the Director of the Centre for Decent Work at the Sheffield University Management School. He is currently leading an ESRC-funded research project on Young Workers' Transitions in the UK Labour Market. His research has focused on topics such as employer support for working carers, underemployment and minimum wages. In his research and consultancy activities he regularly engages with practitioner and policy organisations, including the CIPD, Acas, DWP and the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
Dr Emma Hughes is a Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies at Alliance Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester. Prior to joining Alliance Manchester Business School she worked at Leeds University Business School and the University of Liverpool Management School. At Alliance Manchester Business School she is a member of the Work and Equalities Institute. Her research interests broadly include stakeholder engagement and voice, diversity and inclusion, digitalization, working time, workplace conflict and cooperation. She is currently a co-investigator on a ESRC funded project about contemporary warehouse work.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Broadway House, Tothill Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
