CHAIRPERSON
Conny Herbert ANTONI
University of Trier, Germany
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Xavier BAETEN
Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Belgium
Niilo HAKONEN
Confederation of Finnish Industries EK, Finland
Rosemary LUCAS
Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, U.K.
Stephen PERKINS
London Metropolitan University Business Schook, U.K.
Matti VARTIAINEN
Work Psychology and Leadership – Department of Industrial Engineering and Management –
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
WHAT CONFERENCE?
Reward systems actually develop in both global and local contexts. This gives rise to a lot of challenges. In addition to the various instruments of total rewards, i.e. financial and non-financial means of rewarding, a reward system also consists of principles regarding its design, implementation and development in a sustainable manner.
As a part of an organization’s strategy implementation, it sends a strong message that should support the business context, and its meaning should be rightly interpreted and accepted by the personnel in order to lead to high performance, commitment and satisfaction of the employees. As a consequence, there are huge challenges to further develop and improve reward systems for executives, managers, clerical as well as blue collar workers. Reward management needs to be located as one side of an indeterminate effort-reward equation; ideas for managing reward come and go, but this ‘bargain’ requires continuous negotiation between manager and employee, as well as legitimation among wider stakeholders.
This conference will discuss current pay and reward issues, e.g. regarding the causes and consequences of the economic crises, and look for good practices to develop reward systems based on (applied) academic research and practical experiences.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
The conference brings together both researchers and practitioners in the field of reward systems: researchers from universities, business schools and other research institutions, human resources professionals from companies, consulting firms, and general managers responsible for developing reward strategies, systems and their implementation in companies, and reward system experts from employers’ and employees’ associations.
TOPICS OF THE CONFERENCE
The papers presented in this conference are expected to fit broadly – but not exclusively – into one of the following categories:
- Reward systems within the context of organizational strategies,
- Developing reward strategies,
- Strategic power of different reward instruments,
- Implementing reward systems,
- Aligning rewarding with the other HR instruments,
- Roles, perspectives and interests of the different stakeholders,
- Executive remuneration,
- Total rewards in the public sector,
- Rewarding in the third sector
- Challenges for small and medium-sized workplaces,
- Rewarding knowledge creation and innovation,
- Organizational innovations and rewarding,
- Rewarding in global contexts and in distributed work,
- Gainsharing systems,
- Collective rewarding,
- Rewarding upper management, professionals and knowledge workers,
- Rewarding groups, teams and projects,
- Individual interpretation mechanisms of rewarding,
- Challenges of work-based and person-based pay,
- Pay for performance and without performance,
- Role of board in reward management,
- Roles of middle- and upper management,
- Roles of employees in reward system design and implementation,
- Measuring and evaluating reward systems,
- Managing total reward and contemporary European employment relationships,
- Non-monetary and psychological rewards,
- Evolving compensation models in unionised settings,
- What makes a reward management work effective,
- Communication on reward systems.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts for research papers, case studies and round table discussion are called to cover all the forms of rewarding based on work, performance and outcomes on different levels of an organization and a society.
Abstracts will be peer-reviewed.
Those who are interested in presenting a paper should submit a 500 words abstract
by June 15, 2009
(end of the first call for papers) to be notified of acceptance in mid July 2009
or by
August 15, 2009
(end of the second call for papers) to be notified of acceptance in mid September 2009
All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors.