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SUSTAINABLE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE - an International Perspective is a unique event that will focus on sustainable human resource management in an international context. This issue, due to its dynamic development – in conceptual terms and the need for implementation into business practice – will be subject to in-depth and interdisciplinary analysis. During the conference, we will discuss the latest trends and challenges in sustainable workforce management, sharing the best solutions. 

This extraordinary event will create a space for the exchange of opinions, experiences and good practices in the area of sustainable HRM both between researchers and representatives of companies and organizations, executives, HR managers and employee development specialists.

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• Sustainable human resources management across cultures
• Latest trends and practices of sustainable human resources management in organizations, sustainable organizational behavior
• Socially responsible HRM, green HRM, Triple bottom line HRM, Common good HRM
• Equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace, pay equity
• Worker participation and social dialogue: various forms of employee voice and worker participation
• Human resources development: training, talent, competencies of the future, sustainable careers
• Health, psychological safety and well-being of employees, organizational support
• Flexible work arrangements, work-life balance, work stress
• Challenges and risks of human resources management in connection with national culture and digital transformation
• Engaging employees and creating a supportive work culture
• Digital and Green Transformation, digital leadership, new work models, the impact of digitization on the organization’s people management processes

SGH Warsaw School of Economics  

Founded in 1906, SGH Warsaw School of Economics (Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie, SGH) is the leading public university of economics and business in Poland. SGH Warsaw School of Economics offers many opportunities to study economics and business. Besides Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD degree programmes, SGH also offers postgraduate and executive studies for people interested in lifelong learning. Our educational system complies with the Bologna Declaration, which assumes:  

• higher education based on two main cycles: undergraduate studies (Bachelor) geared to the employment market and lasting at least three years and graduate studies (Master), which may be followed by third-cycle doctoral studies,  
• adoption of the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS), I introduction of the European diploma supplement,  
• mobility of students, teachers and researchers,  
• cooperation with regard to quality assurance,  
• European dimension of higher education.  

SGH has always been open to exchanging knowledge, and sharing educational and research experience with other academic centres. SGH cooperates with over 300 universities all over the world, and takes part in research activities conducted in collaboration with centres abroad. Each year academics from various countries visit SGH to attend seminars and conferences, give lectures and participate in joint research projects. SGH is involved in several international programmes for staff and students alike, including double degree programmes offered in cooperation with 16 partner universities. Every year, nearly 500 SGH students complete parts of their curricula abroad.  

As the only Polish academic member of CEMS, SGH also offers the prestigious CEMS Master’s in International Management programme. We are accredited by: EQUIS, AMBA, BSIS, IQA (CEEMAN), ACCA. 
SGH in 2022 joined CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences. Such membership is a new level of international academic cooperation. It brings innovative educational and civic engagement opportunities to our students. They will have a chance to complete additional international exchanges as well as special teaching projects conducted jointly with CIVICA universities: Sciences Po, Bocconi, LSE, CEU, EUI, Hertie School, SSE, SNSPA and IE University. 

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Institute of Human Capital  

It is a leading scientific and didactic unit in Poland, offering curricula in the area of human resources management in undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programmes at SGH Warsaw School of Economics. The Institute’s activities strengthen cooperation between academia and the business and government communities. Research conducted at the Institute is focused around the overarching goal of shaping the quality of human capital, which serves to increase the competitiveness of the Polish economy. There are two units within the department: The Organizational Behavior Unit and the Human Capital Management Unit.

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University of Gdańsk

The University of Gdańsk is the largest university in the Pomeranian region. It offers education in nearly all fields of academic knowledge, in sought-after professions on the job market and in state-of-the-art facilities in its Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia campuses. We have eleven faculties with over 25 thousand students, doctoral students and post-graduates, who are taught by more than one thousand seven hundred academic staff. In such fields of study as Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Oceanography, Quantum Physics, Psychology, Law and Economic Sciences, the University of Gdańsk is well recognized in Europe. 

The University remains faithful to its motto – In mari via tua (The sea is your way). The University’s core values are: the rational pursuance of truth through original scientific research, a respect for the best models in world scholarship, modern education in the service of the development of civilization and society, mutual respect and trust, tolerance for diversity of views, and solidarity within the entire academic community. 

The research activity of the University of Gdańsk scientists is conducted in twenty-one scientific disciplines, which translates into significant numbers. Owing to its academic character, the University of Gdańsk implements a host of diverse scientific research, representing the Humanities, Economic Sciences as well as the Social, Exact and Natural Sciences. The University of Gdańsk ranks high in the field of innovation, has received funds to implement hundreds of projects, among others as part of the EU Framework Programmes. 

The University of Gdańsk provides education in 87 fields of study, comprising 205 specializations, full-time and part-time studies, at the level of first or second cycle studies, or within comprehensive (long cycle) five-year master’s programmes. A wide range of postgraduate courses and the possibility of further studies at doctoral schools help students to continue their pursuit of academic interests and develop their existing qualifications.

The University of Gdansk’s investment in development is concentrated in the expansion of the University on three campus sites: in Gdansk Oliwa, in Sopot, and in Gdynia. New faculty buildings, and work units, and laboratories, provided with state-of-the-art equipment, open up new possibilities for scientific and scholarly research, and for cooperation with the economy and with business.

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Institute of Psychology

The Institute of Psychology was founded in 1970. Since 1990 it has been a part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Gdansk. The Institute awards higher education degrees in Psychology to those who complete long-cycle studies. The Institute staff is composed of prominent scholars who conduct their research studies in different corners of the globe. They publish and are cited in prestigious journals in such subdisciplines as: work and organization psychology, cross-cultural psychology, neuro-bio-psychology, developmental psychology, clinical and health psychology, psychology of individual differences, applied social psychology. The Institute of Psychology is located in the building of the Department of Social Sciences, one of Poland’s most modern facilities. It hosts: state-of-the-art auditoria, well-equipped classrooms, and specialist offices and laboratories (e.g., Laboratory of Psychological Assessment).

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• Prof. Fiona Edgar, University of Otago, New Zealand
• Prof. Nicolas Gillet, University of Tours, France
• Prof. Maria Järlström, University of Vaasa, Finland
• Prof. Magdalena Kozera-Kowalska, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland
• Prof. Barbara Kożusznik, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
• Prof. Barbara Kryk, University of Szczecin, Poland
• Prof. Martin Lauzier, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
• Prof. Anna Lupina-Wegener, ZHAW School of Management and Law, Switzerland  
• Prof. Claudia Manzi, Catholic University of Milan, Italy
• Prof. Belgin Okay-Somerville, University of Glasgow, Scotland
• Prof. Katarzyna Piwowar-Sulej, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland
• Prof. Aleksy Pocztowski, Krakow University of Economics, Poland
• Prof. Anna Rakowska, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland
• Prof. Sabine Raeder, University of Oslo, Norway
• Prof. Sylwiusz Retowski, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland
• Prof. Mercedes Sánchez-Apellániz, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
• Prof. Akihito Shimazu, Keio University, Japan
• Prof. Tetiana Shkoda, Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, Ukraine 
• Prof. Živilė Stankevičiūtė, School of Economics and Business, Lithuania
• Prof. Piotr Wachowiak, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

Chairperson of the Program Committee

Prof. Agnieszka Wojtczuk-Turek, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

Vice Chair of the Program Committee

Prof. Paweł Jurek, University of Gdańsk, Poland

Contact

The organizing committee includes representatives of the Warsaw School of Economics and the University of Gdańsk. 

SGH Warsaw School of Economics:

• Dariusz Danilewicz, Ph.D., Conference Manager
• Prof. Agata Lulewicz-Sas 
• Prof. Tomasz Rostkowski 
• Hanna Kinowska, Ph. D.
• Rafał Łabędzki, Ph. D. 
• Katarzyna Mikołajczyk, Ph. D. 
• Grzegorz Myśliwiec, Ph. D. 
• Michał Zubek, Ph. D. 
• Anna Biłyk

University of Gdańsk:

• Klaudia Bochniarz
• Aleksandra Buźniak
• Jadwiga Cichoń
• Dominik Cirocki

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