Surviving or Thriving: Designing contemporary workplaces for sustainable work engagement
- Work and occupational
Join the DOPNI Committee and Professor Yseult Freeney at The Europa Hotel, Belfast from 3-5pm on 02 May to network over coffee and hear about Yseult's research.
Work engagement, or thriving at work, relies on a sustainable balance between challenges and resources.
Drawing on research conducted in Ireland and published in international journals, this talk will present three contextual phenomena where workers can be challenged in protecting their well-being and enjoyment of work.
These distinct contexts help us to better understand what is most important for experiencing meaningfulness, engagement, well-being and sustainable careers.
Examining research on new ways of working, including hybrid and remote work; large scale studies of work engagement; and in-depth analyses of women's more punctuated careers, this talk will emphasise the importance of autonomy - in all its forms; competence; and relationships as a fundamental toolkit for all those working to improve people's working lives.
Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss how best to apply self-determination frameworks to shape future workplaces where employees can thrive.
This event will be held at:
- The Piano Restaurant
Europa Hotel,
Great Victoria Street
Belfast
BT2 7AP
This event is open to all members of the BPS.
About our speaker
Yseult Freeney is a Full Professor of Organisational Psychology in Dublin City University Business School and Research Director of the Irish Institute for Digital Business.
Her research agenda is driven by a passionate interest in the well-being of employees and in helping them to thrive at work.
More specifically, her research contributes to understanding how organisations can foster sustainable work engagement and work-life enrichment for employees against a backdrop of increasing work intensification, as well as particular interest in the important role of positive workplace relationships, especially during workplace transitions.
Yseult has extensive experience of working with multiple organisations in both a research and training capacity in assisting them with leadership and engagement challenges.
She co-designed the Civil Service Employee Engagement Survey with Prof. Edel Conway and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and co-authored the 'Shaping the Future of the Civil Service in Ireland' report in 2019.
Further evidence of her work in this space, as well as validation of her expertise in the area of people at work, can be found in her numerous publications to date including Organization Science, Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, Human Resource Management Journal, and Public Management Review.