6th Performance and Reward Conference
Wednesday 6th April 2011, MMU Sandra Burslem Building

Managing Performance and Reward in Challenging Environments

 

Venue: Sandra Burslem Building, Oxford Road, Manchester

This one-day conference will provide a forum for academics, practitioners, consultants and doctoral students to debate current international issues and challenges in performance and reward. The conference will focus on the issue of challenging environments, from broader economic and organisational matters to specific individual issues in the workplace. The scope will be wide and varied encompassing a number of different topics related to this general theme.

Papers are invited that contribute to any aspect of performance and reward and may be conceptual, empirical or case based. The conference organisers would welcome contributions from a range of disciplinary domains and those that have an international dimension. Doctoral and practitioner papers are especially welcome. Discussions are currently underway with the Editor of a leading journal with the view to being able to publish selected papers in a special edition of the journal in 2012.

Key note speakers:

Lorraine Bater
Global Business Transformation Director, Syngenta,

"How leaders can inspire commitment in others to perform at their best".

Professor Marilyn Davidson
Professor of Work Psychology and Co-Director of the Centre for Equality and Diversity at Work,

"The gender pay gap and women in management - myths and realities".

 

Conference organisers:

Rosemary Lucas, Sarah Crozier and Anna Sutton (Manchester Metropolitan University Business School) and Carol Atkinson (University of Bradford School of Management).