Conference Wellbeing at Work (WAW), Copenhagen, 26 – 28 May 2014, Track ‘social innovation and improved wellbeing’
Contact person: Frank Pot

Symposium “Theories on workplace innovation and wellbeing”
Chair: Frank Pot and Steven Dhondt
Scheduled: Monday 26 May, 14:00 – 15:30, large auditorium.

• Steven Dhondt, TNO, Catholic University Leuven Belgium, EUWIN, NL: Workplace Innovation: a connecting concept for organisational psychology and sociology
• Helge Søndergaard Hvid, Roskilde University, DK : Sociotechnical theory of the 21th century
• Frank Pot, Radboud University, TNO, EUWIN, NL: The Importance of Organisational Level Decision Latitude for Wellbeing and Organisational Commitment
• Pia Mulvad Reksten, Danish Confederation of Trade Unions, DK: Strengthening growth and job creation through employee driven innovation.

Session “Workplace innovation and wellbeing: empirical results”
Chair: Frank Pot and Steven Dhondt
Scheduled: Monday 26 May, 16:00 – 17.30

• Greet Vermeylen, EUROFOUND, IE: Measuring employee participation in European workers’ and employers’ surveys: An example of European Working Conditions Survey and European Company Survey
• Geert Van Hootegem, Catholic University Leuven Belgium, EUWIN, BE :Increasing the Quality of Working Life through Workplace Innovation, Results of a longitudinal research program in Flanders
• Peter Oeij, TNO, NL:Workplace innovation pays off for SMEs: the case of a Dutch region
• Ségolène Journoud, ANACT, EUWIN, FR:Analysing stress and resources factors to encourage social dialogue.
• Hervainé Szabó Gyöngyvér, Kodolányi János University of Applied Sciences, HU:Social innovation for wellbeing: PIQ and lead professionalization model in Social Work education

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