Organisational interventions

Speaker

• Karina Nielsen, University of Sheffield

Scientific Coordinator: Michela Vignoli

Abstract

Organizational interventions aim to improve employee health and wellbeing through changing the way work is organized, designed and managed. Such changes require significant behavioural changes and changes to organizational policies, practices and procedures, which are not easy to achieve. In this workshop, we focus on the “how to” organizational interventions and in an interactive way learn about how we can design and implement organizational interventions.

Short Bio

Professor Karina Nielsen is Chair of Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield, a research affiliate at Karolinska Institute Sweden, Professor II at NTNU, Norway and adjunct professor at Griffith University, Australia. Karina's research interests fall in the category of changing organisations. Her main strand of research is that of participatory, organisational interventions. She has developed and tested models for how organisations can design, implement and evaluate organisational intervention that aim to promote employee well-being through changing the way work is organised, designed and managed.

She has published more than 100 papers and book chapters in peer-reviewed journals. She is an associate editor of Work & Stress and serves on the editorial boards of The Leadership Quarterly, Human Relations, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, of the Journal of Business and Psychology. She has won multiple awards for the research.