The purpose of the OB-HRM SIG is to develop an ongoing and constructive dialogue among organisational behaviour scholars and practitioners to conduct research that is relevant for management theory and practice in the contemporary world. The OB-HRM SIG aims at promoting research and networking interests in individual and group behaviour in the organisational context by providing a wide-ranging, engaged and internationally-focused forum to discuss and develop research and practice in the field. In addition to well-established topics the OB-HRM SIG is open to and wants to encourage submissions to different new streams of research in private, public and non-profit organisations.
SIG OFFICERS (2023-2024):
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management (OB & HRM) SIG Chair: Alessia Sammarra, University of L’Aquila, Italy (alessia.sammarra@univaq.it)
OB & HRM General Track Co-chairs: Dinuka Herath, University of Huddersfield, UK (D.Herath@hud.ac.uk), Andres Salas Vallina, University of Valencia, Spain (andres.salas@uv.es) and Rosa Lutete Geremias, University of Lisbon, Portugal (lutetegeremias@hotmail.com)
HRM Track Co-chairs: Silvia Profili, Università Europea di Roma, Italy (silvia.profili@unier.it) and Silvia Dello Russo, LUISS, Italy (sdellorusso@luiss.it)
Team Performance Track Co-chairs: Antonio Abrantes, Toulouse Business School, France (a.abrantes@tbs-education.fr), Monika Maslikowska, University of Lugano, Switzerland (monika.maslikowska@usi.ch)
Leadership track Co-chairs: Ceyda Maden, Ozyegin Unversity, Turkiye (ceyda.maden@ozyegin.edu.tr), Monica Zaharie, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania (monica.zaharie@econ.ubbcluj.ro), Meltem Ceri Booms KU Leuven (meltem.ceribooms@kuleuven.be), Tânia de Matos Gomes Marques, School of Technology and Management CARME, Portugal (tania.marques@ipleiria.pt) and Julianna Grabianowski, Doane University, USA (j.grabianowski@doane.edu)
OB & HRM SIG Communication Officer: Gayanga Bandara Herath, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark (gayanga@sdu.dk) and Irene Zografou, Athens University of Economics and Business, (irinizografou@aueb.gr)
EURAM 2024 Conference SIG 09 AWARD winners
Best Paper Award – OB General Track
When Stars Lose Their Shine: A Qualitative Study of the Role of Workplace Envy
Elizabeth Ogbodo, Audrey Rouzies, Delvis Tochukwu Emeka
Best Paper Award – HRM Track
Beyond the Individual Access: Organizational Telework Dispersion and Performance
Marvin Neu, Leon Barton, Amanda Shantz, Heike Bruch
Best Paper Award – Leadership & Team Performance Management Tracks
Giver or Taker: Cultivating Benevolence in High Performers to Enhance Team Performance through Social Comparison
Chia-Chen Tu, Man-Ling Chang, Yu-Ching Chiao
Best Topic Paper Award
Investigating the Effects of Reactive and Proactive Workplace Flexibility on Perceived Overall Justice for Employees With and Without Disabilities
Nicola Vivienne Glumann, Magdalena Vivienne Schertler, Stephan Alexander Böhm
Best Reviewer Award
The ex-aequo winners of the Best Reviewer Award were:
Xinyu Liu – University of Hong Kong
Katarzyna Tworek – Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR & HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SIG STANDING TRACKS
GT09_00 – Organisational Behaviour General Track
The OB General Track is open to all papers that broadly fall into the domain of Organizational Behaviour but are not covered by the various other tracks of the OB SIG. The OB General Track is open to a variety of themes on both well-established topics and new streams of research in public, private and non-profit organizations. The submitted papers might be dealing with the attributes, processes, mechanisms, behaviours, and outcomes within and between individual, interpersonal, group, and organizational levels of analysis.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty; Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 10: Reducing inequalities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
Primary Contact:
Dinuka Herath, University of Huddersfield – d.herath@hud.ac.uk
ST09_01 – Human Resource Management
The standing track covers the complete field of HRM research, promoting theory and research development on important substantive and methodological topics in the field. Papers’ proposals falling within the broad domain of HRM will be considered, spanning from micro HRM to strategic HRM and international HRM subfields. Empirical studies, theoretical contributions, and interdisciplinary research are welcome. The track aims at providing opportunities to reflect on the latest research in the field and strengthen international collaborations.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 10: Reducing inequalities
Primary Contact:
Laura Innocenti, University of L’Aquila – laura.innocenti@univaq.it
ST09_02 – Team Performance Management
The standing track welcomes papers that study individuals in teams (e.g., how multiple-team membership impacts on individual learning and adaptation, how individual performance is influenced by team dynamics), teams as units (dynamic views on team processes, antecedents and consequences of team performance, team emergent states, team training, empirically supported team interventions, virtual teams) as well as the inter-team dynamics in larger social systems (e.g., multi-team systems dynamics and effectiveness, multiparty systems). The research topic is inclusive and we expect papers that use or combine theoretical insights from a variety of disciplines.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
Primary Contact:
António Abrantes, TBS Education – a.abrantes@tbs-education.fr
ST09_03 – Leadership
Leadership is a popular topic and core construct of interest within the field of organizational behavior, as it is a crucial factor influencing a range of organizational outcomes as well as employee well-being and health (among others). In light of its relevance and prevalence, we have created a specific track within EURAM to collect and curate leadership related research. This leadership track is purposefully broad to appeal to multiple paradigms and approaches spanning numerous EURAM topics. However, given our primary affiliation with the Organisational Behaviour SIG, we especially encourage micro- and multi-level theoretical and empirical papers.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty; Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 10: Reducing inequalities; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Meltem Ceri-Booms, University of Leuven – cerimel@hotmail.com
ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR & HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SIG TRACKS
T09_04 – Sustainable HRM and New Ways of Working
Sustainable Human Resource Management has gained traction, particularly amidst evolving workplace trends and the post-COVID-19 era. This research track explores the impact of sustainable HRM and workplace innovation on employee attitudes, behaviours, and organization-level effects. It aims to uncover the multifaceted outcomes and interplay with corporate sustainability initiatives and the influence of current workplace trends like remote work and digitalisation. Understanding employees’, work teams’, and managers’ responses to sustainable HRM practices is crucial for achieving organisational goals. This research contributes to fostering innovation for addressing grand organisational challenges by investigating the link between sustainable HRM, workplace innovation, and organisational performance.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,Goal 5: Gender equality,Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,Goal 10: Reducing inequalities
Primary Contact:
Simon Jebsen, University of Southern Denmark – simonf@sam.sdu.dk
T09_05 – Delving into the interplay of organizational design, structures, and behaviors: aligning the stars
Many attempts have been accomplished to investigate the interplay of organizational structures and behaviors. This topic solicits scholars to reflect critically on the intertwinement of structural and behavioral dynamics in modern organizations. It aims at collecting evidence of the drivers at the interface of organizational structures and behaviors that enable public sector entities, nonprofit institutions, and firms to address grand societal challenges and achieve resilience. For this purpose, we invite contributions that examine the role of organizational structure and design in shaping behaviors, and the other way around – i.e., how behaviors contribute to constructing formal and informal organizational structures.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
Primary Contact:
Rocco Palumbo, University Rome “Tor Vergata” – rocco.palumbo@uniroma2.it
T09_06 – Beyond good and evil: unravelling the bright and the dark sides of organizational power
Organizations, as social entities, are not exempt from the exercise of power. Alongside formal power, which is based on hierarchy and authority, informal power is centered on soft determinants of influence contaminates organizational dynamics and behaviours. The track distinguishes the positive and negative aspects of formal and informal power and aims at investigating the way they interact to shape management decisions and influence organizational behaviour. Power is investigated at various levels, including interpersonal exchanges, group processes, and inter-organizational relationships. The track goes beyond the good and evil of organizational power, contextualizing it to the day-to-day operations of contemporary organizations.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Roberta Troisi, Università degli studi di Salerno – rtroisi@unisa.it
T09_07 – Big Data, Analytics, and Emerging Tech in Organisational Behaviour and HRM
Fast-paced changes in technology, computing, and communication facilitate changes in the work environment. Many firms have introduced analytics based on big data and emerging technologies to create efficiencies and enhance their agility; they have also adopted hybrid working to provide flexibility to their employees’ working locations. While many of these technologies and the new way of working are performance-enhancing at the firm level, the impacts on employees have not been well explored yet. As a result, work practices have unknown consequences on the health and well-being of employees, their willingness to embrace change, and other work-relevant employee and organizational-level outcomes.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
Primary Contact:
Yumei Yang, Bournemouth University – yangy@bournemouth.ac.uk
T09_08 – Advancing Inclusivity: Empowering People with Disabilities in the workplace
The track invites research endeavors that contribute to a complete comprehension of organizational tools, practices, and mechanisms to improve the well-being, performance, and satisfaction of individuals with disabilities. These perspectives encompass the design and implementation of inclusivity and disability tools, practices, and policies developed through synergistic development between organizations and policymakers. By integrating Organizational Theory, Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management foci, the track offers an opportunity to explore the multifaceted nature of disability management to advance our understanding of inclusivity in the workplace.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty,Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
Primary Contact:
Giulia Flamini, Rome Tor Vergata University – giulia.flamini@uniroma2.it
