Dear Colleagues,
Please see below the announcement about the Healthier Societies Fostering Healthy Organizations conference, and also the summer school on the same topic. This should include live links that will tell you more about the conference and summer school and about how to register.
Take care,
Ron
Ronald H. Humphrey, PhD
Associate Editor, STFIMT, Academy of Management Review
Associate Editor, Organizational Psychology
Distinguished Professor of Leadership
Department of Leadership and Management
Director, Centre for Leadership Studies and Practice
Lancaster University Management School,
Lancaster, LA1 4YX,
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1524 595065
r.humphrey@lancaster.ac.uk
Humphrey, Ronald H. (2013). Effective Leadership: Theories, Cases, and Applications. SAGE Publications. Los Angeles. ISBN: 978-1-4129-6355-8.
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Second International Conference "Healthier societies fostering healthy organizations: A cross-cultural perspective" August 30-31 and September 1, 2018 Florence, Italy and First International Summer School in "Healthy organizations: From research to application", Department of Education and Psychology, University of Florence, August 27-30, 2018
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Dear colleague,
I am very pleased to announce and invite you to the Second international conference on "Healthier societies fostering healthy organizations: Cross-cultural perspectives" to be held in Florence, Italy, August 30-31 and September 1, 2018.
This conference is organized by the University of Florence. The event will include many outstanding keynote speakers from various parts of the world including Maureen E. Kenny – Boston College (USA); Jose-Maria Peiró, University of Valencia (Spain); Donald H. Saklofske – University of Western Ontario (Canada); Akira Tsuda – Kurume University (Japan); Fons Van de Vijver – Tilburg University (The Netherlands); Saths Cooper – University of Pretoria (South Africa) and will feature workshops and symposia focusing on the theme of promoting the welfare of individuals in organizations and societies from a cross-cultural psychological perspective https://www.scifopsi.unifi.it/vp-358-seminari-e-workshop-scifopsi-2018.html
Please, share as much as possible. To celebrate this second international cross-cultural conference, registration is free of charge. Our main purpose is to support and maintain the international group of interested researchers and practitioners who are dedicated to promoting a healthier world by continuing this collaboration through further conferences, summer school and workshops in subsequent years in Florence.
Attached are the invitation and call for papers, the registration form, and the program. Papers presented by attendees at the conference as well as other invited and submitted papers will be reviewed and may be selected for submission for the Special Issue "Personality, individual differences, and healthy organizations" to be published in the Journal "Personality and Individual Differences". The call for papers is found in the following link:
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/personality-and-individual-differences/call-for-papers/call-for-paper-for-special-issue-on-personality-individual-d
The attendance at this second International Cross-cultural Conference only requires the submission of the attached registration form. Please, disseminate this information to interested colleagues and organizations within your networks as much as possible. I hope you could present an invited symposium as Chair (4 contributions). I'll be really glad of it. Please, let me know.
Furthermore I would like to inform you that before the Conference there will be the 1st Edition of the International Summer School in "Healthy organizations: From research to application" that will be held in Florence, August 27-30, 2018.
The Department of Education and Psychology (Psychology Section) of the University of Florence is organizing this first International Summer School in Healthy organizations. The event will include many keynote speakers from various parts of the world including in alphabetic order Ronald H. Humphrey (UK), Maureen E. Kenny (USA), Claire Leitch (UK), Peter McIlveen (Australia), Jose-Maria Peiró (Spain), Vijay Pereira (United Arab Emirates), René Proyer (German), Donald H. Saklofske (Canada), Fons Van de Vijver (The Netherlands), Greg Yan (China).
There will be seminars focused on Healthy organizations within a cross-cultural perspective (work and organizational psychology, management, individual differences, prevention, cross-cultural psychology...), as well as applied activities for conducting research and interventions for fostering healthy human organizations and contributing to healthier societies.
Attached you can find the invitation with the program and the information for the submission for the Summer School too. Please, disseminate this information to interested and young colleagues (including PhD students) within your networks as much as possible.
Kindest regards
Annamaria Di Fabio
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Annamaria Di Fabio, PhD
Full Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology
Rector's Delegate for Psychological counseling in guidance and job placement
President of the second-level Master's Degree Psychology of the life cycle and contexts
Director of the International Laboratory for Research and Intervention
Psychology for Vocational Guidance, Career Counseling and Talents (LabOProCCareer&T)
Director of the International Laboratory for Research and Intervention
Cross-Cultural Positive Psychology, Prevention, and Sustainability (CroCPosPsychP&S)
Associate Editor
Personality and Individual Differences (PAID)
Frontiers in Organizational Psychology
Department of Education and Psychology
University of Florence, Italy
via di San Salvi, 12
Complesso di San Salvi, Padiglione 26
50135 Firenze
tel. +39(0)55 2055850
fax +39(0)55 2756134
e-mail: adifabio@psico.unifi.it