Biannual Surrey symposium on organisational behaviour and Human Resource management

Biannual Surrey symposium on organisational behaviour and Human Resource management

The symposium, themed ëKnowledge-based Economies in a Networked Worldí, will be hosted at the University of Surreyís School of Management on 22 May 2003. Rapid changes in the composition and functioning of the industrial life warrant academic and professional attention. The late 1990s and the early 2000s have witnessed interesting macro and micro transformations at the levels of national policy, labour market trends, management approaches and workplace relations. Enthusiastic introduction of innovative management approaches in the 1990s have started yielding results, which were not always as expected. Often divergent expectations are placed on conceptual or professional innovation in the field of organisational behaviour and employment relations by diverse stakeholder groups in business and broader society.

These expectations range from management approaches which will foster productivity, diversity, creativity and sustainability. Faced with the challenge of ever-growing lists of performance objectives, professional managers are in need of innovative approaches that will aid them in accommodating these divergent pressures. Aiming to address this emergent need, the objective of this symposium is to chart out the current developments in organisational behaviour and human resource management with a view to allow academics and practitioners to share their insights into empirical, conceptual, and professional developments in these two fields with a view to promote better communication between academic and practitioner communities.

For more information on the symposium, please visit
http://www.som.surrey.ac.uk/SoM/Research/ResearchConferencesSymposium.asp.