Sustained motivation and health across the working lifespan

Date: 2020-01-23

Time: 13:00 - 17:00

Address: Frescativägen 40, Stockholm

Venue: Lilla hörsalen, Naturhistoriska riksmuseet

Organised by the Swedish National Committee for Psychological Sciences and the Swedish Psychological Association.

The symposium “Sustained motivation and health across the working lifespan” will provide attendees with a state-of-the-art review of research on motivation and health across the working lifespan.

A mix of national and international experts in psychology and other behavioral sciences will present up-to-date research on: (1) the transition from higher education to working life and the onboarding of new employees in the human services; (2) basic psychological needs, motivation, and health at work; (3) the transition to the future of work with a focus on future skills, performance, and motivation; and (4) motivation and health across the retirement transition.

A unique feature of the symposium is the coverage of research across the entire working lifespan from the transition from higher education to working life, throughout the working life to the transition to retirement. The lifespan perspective will highlight key individual and environmental factors that contribute to high quality motivation and health across the working lifespan as well as their impact across critical transition periods in and out of the working life.

Aside from providing an up-to-date review of theoretical and empirical advancements in research on sustained motivation and health across the working lifespan, the symposium will also highlight strategies that can be used by practitioners and organizations to optimize people’s motivation and health across the working lifespan and across these critical transition periods.

Programme

13.00
Welcome and introduction
Professor Anna-Stigsdotter Neely and Professor Magnus Lindwall

13.15
Onboarding of new employees in the human services: Organizational interventions and individual outcomes
Professor Petter Gustafsson, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet

14.00
Basic psychological needs as a fundament for employee motivation and health
Professor Anja Hagen Olafsen, Department of Business, Marketing and Law, University of South-Eastern Norway

14.45
Coffee break

15.15
Thriving in the future of work
Professor Marylène Gagné, Future of Work Institute, Curtin University

16.00
Motivation and health across the retirement transition
Senior Lecturer Andreas Stenling, Department of Psychology, Umeå University

16.45
Price ceremony for recipient of The Swedish National Committee for Psychological Sciences annual award to an outstanding young researcher in psychology.

 
17.00
End

Presentation of the speakers

Professor Petter Gustafsson, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
Petter Gustavsson’s research group Motivation, Competence, and Health (MCH) conducts research on college students’ mental health and study conditions and on the graduate college student’s establishment and development on the labor market. Projects currently undertaken by the group are focused on issues related to student health, early career stress related illness, mindsets, residency programs and organizational socialization in the health care sector, effects of work hours on health and job performance, and preventive stress interventions in educational and work settings.

Professor Anja Hagen Olafsen, Department of Business, Marketing and Law, University of South-Eastern Norway
Anja Hagen Olafsen is the leader of the Organizing and Leadership research group. This multidisciplinary research group has a broad research agenda focused on leadership and organizational issues from a variety of perspectives such as economics, human resources, leadership, strategic management, organizational behavior, and political science. Professor Olafsen’s research is centered around causes and consequences of work motivation.

Professor Marylène Gagné, Future of Work Institute, Curtin University
Marylène Gagné leads the research theme Work Capabilities and Motivation at the Future of Work Institute at Curtin University. The research group is focused on understanding the recruitment, motivation, compensation, and skills required in new and evolving work structures. Professor Gagné’s research interests broadly revolves around how organizations, through their structures, cultures, rewards, tasks, and management, affect people’s motivational orientations towards their work, including volunteer work, and how quality of motivation influences performance and well-being in the workplace.

Senior Lecturer Andreas Stenling, Department of Psychology, Umeå University
Andreas Stenling is the 2018 recipient of The Swedish National Committee for Psychological Sciences annual award to an outstanding young researcher in psychology. He is currently conducting research on physical activity and health across the life course, motivational processes related to health behaviors, and motivation and health across the retirement transition. Andreas is also a member of the research group Community for Leadership Research (CoLeadR) and is currently involved in projects related to causes and consequences of leadership behaviors. 

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