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Free Business Breakfast - Job crafting – How to improve the quality of work by engaging employees

About This Event

ConsultIWP, base at the University of Sheffield, regularly hosts free breakfast and evening business sessions, designed to help local businesses survive the economic downturn by providing them with valuable industry-leading insight and best practices.  

The sessions, which are open to companies and organisations in all sectors and of all sizes, cover topical HR issues relevant in today’s challenging market conditions.  Each session features top-class speakers and associates from the world-renowned Institute of Work Psychology, who are at the cutting edge of developments in organizational and work psychology.

Why you should come along?

"From reflection will come even more effective action" - Peter Drucker

These business sessions provide an excellent forum for stimulating discussion and sharing ideas and views as business leaders from across Yorkshire come together to share their own experiences.  

You will walk away with a better understanding of ‘hot’ HR issues, and practical tools and ideas that you can use within your company.  Excellent food and a chance to network and promote your own business with other local companies in a relaxed and informal environment help make these sessions the most talked-about networking events in Yorkshire.

About this session:

How do you make sure that the employees in your organisation have high quality jobs that foster high well-being and performance?   The aim of this session will be to show how organisations can craft better quality jobs through the use a participative job redesign tool called ‘scenarios planning’.  The tool allows organisations to respond positively to events that can have an adverse effect on the structure and content of jobs - such as downsizing, departments merging or splitting and the introduction of new products or services – by envisioning a range of different job scenarios and helping organisations select the job design that maximizes both employee well-being and performance.  We will illustrate the use of this tool by drawing on a successful job redesign project conducted at a Driving Standards Agency call centre that improved employee well-being, employee performance and led to a reduction in the sick rate of employees.

Who Should Attend?
The session will appeal to managers, HR managers, union representatives, employees and consultants who have an interest in improving the quality of work.