Conférence Relations between wellbeing and performance

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Beyond the ‘Happy-Productive Worker’ Model

Le Groupe de recherche en gestion des ressources humaines et en développement durable vous invite à une conférence donnée par M. José M. Peiró, professeur de psychologie du travail et de l’organisation, qui abordera les relations entre le bien-être et la performance.

Cette conférence sera présentée en anglais.

Résumé

The ‘happy-productive model’ in organizational Psychology has aimed to establish the relationships between wellbeing and productivity as a way of advocating that quality of working life induces workers’ higher performance and pays-off for organizations enhancing their results. However, results are rather inconclusive and the relationships between these two variables, when significant, are moderated. The important changes mentioned in the socioeconomic context, markets, organizations and work as well as the ones related to workers pose new challenges to the analyses of the interaction and mutual determination of performance and wellbeing. It requires for instance further elaboration of the constructs of both performance and well-being as well as the interaction between them.

In the lecture the results of a systematic review of the relationships between these constructs since more that half a century and the underlying assumptions of the happy-productive worker model will be highlighted. Moreover, the antagonistic profiles (unhappy-productive and happy-unproductive ones) will be analyzed and a heuristic model to analyze the dynamics of the relationship between the two constructs will be presented. Finally, the implications of the research findings for management and to support individuals and teals to prevent risks and identify the toxic and threatening environment from the challenging one will be discussed.

Conférencier

José M. Peiró is Professor of Work and Organizational (W&O) Psychology at the University of Valencia and Director of the Research Institute of Human Resources Psychology, Organizational Development and Quality of Working life (IDOCAL). He is senior researcher of the Economics Research Institute of Valencia (IVIE). His research focuses mainly on occupational stress and wellbeing at the individual and collective levels.

M. Peiró has published about 200 articles and book chapters and several books and monographs. He has been awarded the Aristotle Prize by the European Federation of Psychology Associations (2015), the Advanced International Research and Service Award by the International Council of Psychologists (2013), the Life time award of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (2013) and the ‘José L. Pinillos’ award to the excellence and Innovation in Psychology (2016) by the Psicofundación (Spain).