Work Psychology and Leadership
Work Psychology and Leadership
The Work Psychology and Leadership group investigates leadership and human activities in operative organizations, their development and change management. Studies concern leadership and middle management, knowledge in industrial operative organizations, reward strategies and practices, evaluation based pay systems as well as well-being at work.
The research of our group focuses on three different but dependent areas:
1) Evaluation based pay systems
» Developing pay system models
» Promoting pay justice and equality
» Improving pay system’s functionality
2) Middle management practices
» Improving leadership processes in goal setting
» Analyzing performance management systems
» Developing tools for performance management
3) Leadership practice » Researching how varying contexts affect leadership practice
» Studying the effects of leadership development programmes
» Improving leadership practice
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Research Program of Rewarding since 1996
The Research on Reward Practices Program at the Aalto University, BIT Research Centre has cooperated with over 150 companies and organizations in Finland from year 1996 in order to develop and evaluate their reward practices.
For more information in Finnish, please visit www.rewardresearch.aalto.fi
Affiliated professor: Matti Vartiainen