Tuesday, March 03, 2015, 2:30 PM – 3:15 PM (PST)

IGNITE SESSIONS

Moderated By:
Ashok Sarathy, Innovations in Testing Program Chair
Rachel Schoenig, Innovations in Testing Program Vice Chair

IGNITE 5 - The Dark Side of Employee Engagement

Practice Area Division(s): Industrial/Organizational
Topic: Testing, Measurement, and Psychometrics

This session provides a fresh perspective on employee engagement, focused on three key points. First, it will examine an important but largely neglected aspect of engagement, which is its dispositional nature. In particular, it will discuss the degree to which variability in engagement can be attributed to bright and dark side personality characteristics. Second, the session will examine the idea of curvilinear links between engagement and performance – can you be too engaged to perform well? Third, the session addresses whether engagement truly drives productivity more than vice versa. Practical implications, especially regarding strategic innovations concerning the assessment of employee engagement, will be considered.

PRESENTER:
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, University of College London