Anthony Nyberg

Anthony Nyberg

Professor Academic Director, Master of Human Resources

Keynote Speaker

Description

Anthony Nyberg is a professor and academic director of the Management, Center for Executive Succession, Master of Human Resources at Darla Moore School of Business. Nyberg’s research focuses on how organizations compete through people, specifically the strategic role of pay in their attraction, emergence, retention and motivation, including those in the C-suite.He serves as an associate editor for the Academy of Management Journal and on the editorial boards of other prestigious management journals.

Denise Rousseau

Denise Rousseau

H.J. Heinz II University Professor Of Organizational Behaviour And Public Policy

Keynote Speaker

Description

Denise M. Rousseau is professor H.J Heinz II University Professor of organisational behaviour and public policy. Rousseau’s research focuses upon the impact workers have on the employment relationship and the firms that employ them. It advances research and practice regarding worker well-being and career development, organizational effectiveness, the management of change, firm ownership and governance, and industrial relations. Recognized for developing the theory of the psychological contract, (Great Minds in Management, Oxford, Smith and Hitt, editors), Rousseau’s work addresses the powerful reach that the individual worker’s understanding of the employment relationship has on work groups, firms, and society.

Jaap Paauwe

Jaap Paauwe

Prof. dr. Jaap Paauwe Tilburg University Department of Human Resource Studies

Keynote Speaker

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Jaap Paauwe is a full professor of Organization and Human Resource Management. His research focuses on the relationship between HRM, performance and well-being, HR functional excellence, HRM and the institutional context, HR analytics and Talent Management. He is the founder and board member of the People Management Center, a Center for Work, Well-being and Performance, which focuses on building bridges between academia and practitioners.

Kgomotso Mopalami

Kgomotso Mopalami

The SA Board for People Practices (SABPP)

Keynote Speaker

Description

Kgomotso is an experienced HR executive with knowledge across various human resource subject matters and a former lecturer at the University of Johannesburg and North-West University (School of Industrial Psychology and Human Resource Management). She is currently involved in the development and roll-out of the Workplace Ethics Programme, run by the SA Board for People Practices, and focus on building bridges between HR theory and practice.