The PrOPEL Hub – which includes partners from universities across the UK and the CIPD - has three events running during September and October. The first took place on September 22 and was entitled, “Workplace Bullying in the Cultural Industry”.
This webinar discussed how to prevent, mitigate, and/or solve bullying in the cultural industry and in all organisations in general. The speakers were Sam Farley, lecturer in organisational psychology at the University of Leeds Business School, who addressed strategies to prevent bullying, including work that shows how bullying can be mitigated by organisational climates that support conflict resolution, and Alex Woodall, Programme Director for Creative and Cultural Industries Management at Sheffield University Management School, who shared the first ever piece of research on bullying in the museums sector in the UK, which she initiated in 2019 in collaboration with the Museums Association. Her work, Sticks and Stones , is a project that emerged from personal experience, a recognition of the destructive impact of bullying in the sector, and a desire to make institutional change in a sector that should be about care (for objects, audiences and staff).
The second, entitled “People, Performance and Wellbeing in Manufacturing”, took place on September 28 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/people-performance-and-wellbeing-in-manufacturing-tickets-163204554215
In this online PrOPEL Hub Masterclass, hosted by Professor Fiona Lettice (Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation at the University of East Anglia), the invited academic and practitioner speakers offered insight into people, performance and wellbeing in manufacturing organisations.
There were three speakers, each bringing a fresh perspective on dealing with issues of people, performance and wellbeing – around problem-solving, people-focussed leadership and continuous improvement processes. Speakers included: Dr Rebecca Pieniazek, Lecturer in Organizational Psychology and Behaviour from the University of Leeds; Katy Davies, Managing Director of CamdenBoss; and Carl Haycock, UK Printer Operations Director for Domino Printing.
Coming up in October is Women in Fintech: an opportunity to enhance gender equality post-pandemic? which will take place on October 13 from 11-12pm.
The Scottish Centre for Employment Research (SCER), part of Strathclyde Business School, works with organisations from lots of different sectors, including FinTech, to better understand workplace and people management practices and how they impact upon issues such as innovation, engagement and wellbeing.
With many organisations having moved to a work-from-home model, SCER has been exploring how this shift might impact gender equality in the FinTech sector. In the webinar, insights that have come out of the work will be explored including key considerations organisations and policy makers in the FinTech sector need to take into account in aligning workplace and people management practices with EDI strategies. In particular focus will be home and flexible working practices that enable all employees, but particularly women, to engage in innovative work behaviours and service centric behaviours essential to the sector.
Speakers will include: researchers from the University of Strathclyde, a senior representative from the FinTech sector and a female business leader from a FinTech organisation based in the UK.