WORKSHOP - 6^th April - 16h30/18h30

Qualitative Data Analysis with webQDA in Human Resource Management

    ANTÓNIO PEDRO COSTA

This workshop aims to allow the contact between researchers or interested in accessing sustained knowledge on data analysis in qualitative research. This will allow us to look, for example, at Human Resources Management, depending on how it interprets and perceives its challenges. The objectives of this workshop are:

- Assist researchers in dealing with non-numerical and unstructured data in qualitative analysis;

- Enable the use of qualitative analysis software webQDA (www.webqda.net);

- Discuss how this tool (webQDA) can be used in several research methodologies and in conjunction with other tools.

Short biography:

António Pedro Costa is the director of the company ludomedia (www.ludomedia.pt) that has as a priority the development of software. He is one of the researchers of the software to support the qualitative analysis webQDA (www.webqda.net), area in which he has published, in co-authorship, several articles in national and international congresses, articles in magazines and chapters of books. He is the Coordinator of the Ibero-American Congress on Qualitative Research and the International Symposium on Qualitative Research (www.ciaiq.org). He is a member of the working group 1: "Theory, analysis and models of peer review" of the COST action "New Frontiers of Peer Review" (http://www.peere.org/). At the same time, he is Assistant Professor at ISLA and ULP, where he teaches Curricular Units of Research Methodologies (1st, 2nd and 3rd Cycles). He is currently developing the Post-Doctorate "Implementation and Evaluation of Instruments for Qualitative Analysis in Education Research" at the University of Aveiro. He is a contributor to the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science (LIACC), Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto. His research areas include Qualitative Research and Mixed Methods, Human Machine Interaction and Educational Resource Development with emphasis on software.

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WORKSHOP - 6^th April  14h/16h

Emotional Intelligence in People Management

     ANA ISABEL LAGE FERREIRA

Using knowledge about how emotional intelligence can optimize people management is a requirement that is less and less dispensable for a Human Resource Manager.

In this workshop we will talk about how our emotional system works and how we can develop strategies that promote its better functioning; What happens to us when we experience negative emotions and what is the impact of a nonexistent or inadequate regulation of these negative emotions; How some emotional regulation strategies work and how we can use them in managing people.

"Emotions are like moles. If we plug one hole, they end up doing another one elsewhere. "

Short biography:

Ana Isabel Lage Ferreira as a psychologist has always been interested in how people develop and how communication can facilitate or prevent this process. He considers that the possibility of developing ourselves is at the same time a blessing and a curse. Blessing because it allows us to improve and curse because it forces us to improve.

Throughout nearly 20 years of her career, she has worked in community, clinical and educational contexts. She founded and coordinated the Student Support Office of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto between 2002 and 2010 and was a guest teacher at the School of Education in teacher training. She has developed numerous training projects in different educational, health and business contexts in the fields of communication, interpersonal relations, leadership and conflict management.

In addition to a degree in Psychology from U.Porto and a Masters in School Psychology from U.Minho, she completed most of her PhD in Psychology at ISCTE (Emotional Intelligence). She is a trainer certified by the IEFP, the Scientific-Pedagogical Council of Continuing Education and the Dale Carnegie International University for the field of ??interpersonal relations and leadership.

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WORKSHOPS WITH THE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

WORKSHOP I - 7th April - 17h/20h

Institute for Transformational Leadership Model for Organizational Transformation

    RUBEN LLOP

The general objective of the workshop is to understand in a practical way the IfTL model of organizational transformation.

More specifically, participants are expected to understand in a practical way:

1 - Individual commitment and leadership
2 - The relevance of high performance teams
3 - Management by processes and projects
4 - The impact of results on the organization
5 - The key role of Top Management

Short Bio

Holds 3 doctoral degrees (Chemistry, Management and Philosophy), lectured at the most prestigious business schools in the world (IESE, INSEAD, Harvard, EADA, Stanford), and has now set up his own company, Blue Onion.

He is an exceptional communicator and has a visionary reading of business reality.

Although he has an extraordinary academic background, in his 55 years of age he perceives himself more as a professional and an entrepreneur in the service of the development of people, teams, organizations and communities.

WORKSHOP II – 7^th April - 17h / 20h

Psychosocial Risk Assessment Criteria and Tools for Human Resource Managers

    Josep María Blanch

The general objective of the workshop is to know and master tools for evaluating psychosocial risks in organizations.

More specifically, participants are expected to understand in a practical way:

1- The criteria for selecting instruments

2- Different instruments of measurement of psychosocial risks

3- The interpretation of the results of the measuring instruments

Short bio

PhD in Psychology and Diploma in Social Sciences, he has been a professor at UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) since 1976 and has been Professor with Tenure of Applied Social Psychology since 1992.

Taught doctoral and postgraduate courses and seminars in 30 universities in Latin America and 12 European universities. Worked as a professor contracted at UB (University of Barcelona), at the Faculties of Social Sciences and Social Service, and at the School of Police of Catalonia. He was Co-Promoter (in 1985) and President (since 1991) of the NGO Font Picant Foundation. He has worked as a consultant for government agencies in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe and Latin America.

He leads the research groups PETRO (People who work in Organizations) and WONPUM (Working under New Public Management) and is part of the Brazilian research team GT ANPEPP Work and Health.

Has published several books, articles, chapters and technical reports on life quality at work, occupational health, psychosocial risks at work and new public management.