8TH REWARD MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE (RMC 2021) Rewards in Turbulent Times in BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, DECEMBER 2-3, 2021

8TH REWARD MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE (RMC 2021)
Rewards in Turbulent Times in BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, DECEMBER 2-3, 2021

Conference link: https://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=1516

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Conny Herbert ANTONI - University of Trier, Germany
Xavier BAETEN - Vlerick Business School, Belgium
David B. BALKIN Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A.
Stephen PERKINS - Global Policy Institute and London Metropolitan University, UK
Jason D. SHAW - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Matti VARTIAINEN - Work Psychology and Leadership - Department of Industrial Engineering and Management - Aalto University School of Science, Finland

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor Marylene Gagne
Marylene Gagne is the John Curtin Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Business and Law (Curtin University). Her research examines how organisations affect people’s motivational orientation, and how the quality of motivation influences well-being and performance in the workplace. She has done great work in the field of Self-Determination Theory.

Professor Marion Festing
Marion Festing is professor of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership at ESCP Business School in Berlin. Her main areas of expertise include international human resource management, global leadership, intercultural management and globalization processes.

CONFERENCE THEME

More than ever, we are living in a transforming world, implying challenges but also opportunities. In this respect and without having the ambition of being complete, let us highlight four societal trends. Firstly, we are in the midst of a climate crisis, implying a huge need for ambition, innovation and specific competencies. Secondly, digital transformation is reaching its full speed, together with the mainstreaming of Artificial Intelligence. In its turn, this provides challenges regarding the human-machine interaction. Thirdly, we see strong equality movements, bringing the topic of diversity, equity and inclusion high on the agenda of organisations. Fourthly, in order to tackle the menioned societal challenges, organisations need to reinvent their relations with and approach towards stakeholders. Stakeholder engagement, stakeholder participation (beginning with own employees) and (re)considering the organisation’s purpose, have become a key topic. On top of all this, the global pandemic has provided a huge experiment in homeworking, and has further stressed the importance of employee wellbeing and care.