Conversations Of Change

You can find Paul Thoresen on Linkedin or Twitter as @surveyguy2 Industrial / Organisational Psychology is the same name as workplace psychology / organisational psychology siopchat on twitter is the chat referred to! Where does big data sit in IO Psych and Org Change Lot of talk about it, we need to get in front of it, potential for machine learning, and artificial intelligence in use in employee engagement. Big debates in the space • Annual performance reviews – continuous or once a year. • IQ / EQ and personality types – how important are they? • What’s the right combination of top down / bottom up engagement. Latest issues in the space: • Organisations need to bring in change managers early in the design, not after decisions are made • Even if decisions are made, there are still opportunities to provide employees’s ownership so change is done with them, not to them. • Are we trying to change the hearts and minds or just change behaviour. Latest on the scene is behavioural economic and nudges, see “Nudge”