Overview of the Workshop
The “Work Climate in Organizations Workshop” was hosted by Dr. Alicia Grandey at Penn State on May 12-13th, 2016, with the goal of increasing cross-disciplinary collaboration among scholars in psychology, management, and engineering. This workshop seeks to foster communication among leaders in the fields of engineering design, business, and organizational psychology, to advance the science of organizations through interactions between these disciplines. You can read more about the event on Penn State News.
Many scholars want to optimize organizational innovation and effectiveness but each discipline tends to have a different approaches and metrics. Engineers tend to focus on optimizing the process (e.g., the resources, procedures and decision-making), psychologists tend to focus on optimizing the people (e.g., the team composition and motivation levels), and business scholars tend to focus on optimizing the organizational context (e.g., leadership, strategy, culture). Although scholars are becoming more aware that process-, people- and context-oriented approaches all matter to organizational effectiveness, this does not mean that they understand how these should be integrated.
Agenda and Presentations
Wednesday, May 11
Time | Event |
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1:15-5pm | Mini-workshop on Emotions at Work (co-sponsored by PSU's Emotions Research Network) |
6:30-8pm | Workshop Organizational Reception |
Thursday, May 12
FOCUS ON PROCESS: PEOPLE AND TEAMS
Location: 127 Moore Building (Psych)
Time | Event |
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9:00-9:30am | Breakfast | Welcome and Introduction (Grandey) |
9:30-10:45am | Keynote Speaker: Sigal Barsade |
10:45-11am | Coffee Break |
11-12:15pm “What are the problems, and how can we better assess emotional | Panel Discussion: Assessing Emotional Abilities Stéphane Côté (Behavioral Measure) Hillary Anger Elfenbein (Implicit Measure) Conrad Tucker (Computerized Measure) Sigal Barsade (Summary and New Developments) |
12:15-1:15pm | Lunch Break | Creamery Ice Cream |
1:15-2:30pm “What are key factors that optimize the way teams | Presentations: Optimizing Team Dynamics in Orgs Andrew Knight (Team Affect) Tom Sy (Team Leaders and Followers) Susan Mohammed (Team Cognition) Aparna Joshi (Team Diversity) |
2:30-3pm | Coffee Break with Four Breakout Group Discussions Emotion/Interpersonal Competence Team Cognition and Affect Leadership Diversity |
3:00-4:00pm “How can multidisciplinary research teams work well together?” | PANEL: Benefits and Challenges of Cross-disciplinary Work Sam Hunter and Scarlett Miller Seda Yilmaz and Shanna Daly Gul Kremer (Engineering Design Professor and NSF Program Director) |
4:00-5:00pm | Wrap-Up Comments (Grandey) |
5:00-6:00pm | Break |
6:00pm-8pm | Gather at NLI Lobby at 6 for Dinner (Allen Street Grill) |
Friday, May 13
FOCUS ON OUTCOMES: CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
Location: Learning Factory
Time | Event |
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8:30am (leaving at 8:45!) | Meet in NLI Lobby to walk over to the ENGR building |
9:00-9:30am | Breakfast and Introduction to Day 2 (Simpson) |
9:30-10:45am “What are ways to foster creativity and innovation in organizational teams?” | Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives: Fostering Innovation & Creativity Scarlett Miller (Fostering Engineering Innovation) Kathryn Jablokow (Selecting for Engineering Design) Sam Hunter (Climate for Innovation and Leadership) Rikki Nouri (Cultural Diversity and Creativity) |
10:45-11:15am | Coffee Break and Group Discussion |
11:15am-12:15pm “What are tools to improve creativity developed by cross-disciplinary scholars?” | Experiential Workshop: Innovation and Creativity in Teams (led by Seda Yilmaz and Shanna Daly) |
12:15-1:30 pm | Closing Comments (Grandey) |
The final workshop report includes more detailed summaries of the presentations, as well as a complete schedule of the workshop.