Symposium on the Dark and Bright Sides of the Workplace

Jacques Forest, Professor at the Department of Organization and Human Resources at the ESG UQAM, psychologist and Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP). He is an expert on psychological needs at work, optimal human functioning, motivation at work using Self-Determination Theory, positive psychology, and mental health at work.

Sarah-Geneviève Trépanier, Professor at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Social Climate and Workplace Health. Her research focuses on the determinants of bullying in the workplace, its consequences in both the short and long term and to identify the contextual and individual factors that can mitigate these consequences.

Tomas Jungert (Lund University)
Tomas Jungert is associate professor of Psychology and works as a university lecturer at the Department of Psychology at Lund University. Tomas’ research interests are found in psychology and include work psychology, educational psychology, and social psychology and concern, for example, studies on motivation and school bullying.

If you are interested in participating in this symposium, please feel free to reply directly to this email: tomas [dot] jungert [at] psy [dot] lu [dot] se (tomas[dot]jungert[at]psy[dot]lu[dot]se)
We look forward to welcoming you to the Department of Psychology in Lund!

Programme
Brief Introduction (9:00-9:15)

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Sarah-Geneviève Trépanier (UQTR) Workplace bullying (9.15-10.15)

Workplace bullying is a particularly harmful social stressor at work, with detrimental individual and organizational effects. In this seminar, Sarah-Geneviève Trépanier will provide an overview of her team’s research investigating individual consequences of workplace bullying and the psychological mechanisms involved and present conditions that facilitate, or prevent, the presence of negative behaviors at work.

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Break (10 :15-10:45)

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Jacques Forest (ESG UQAM) Positive psychology, strengths use and technology (10:45-12:00)

Strengths management is an innovative and effective way to simultaneously promote performance and well-being at work and in life, as research evidence suggests. In this workshop Jacques Forest will show how this management technique is a complementary approach to current approaches to optimize the performance and how it contributes to the development of workers

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Break (12:00-13:15)

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Questions and answers session (13:15-15)

In this session, all attendees will have the opportunity to ask Sarah-Geneviève and Jacques questions about their presentations and research, provide feedback, and discuss shared interests and potential future collaborations in research and teaching.