Date: Wednesday 19th July 2023

Location: Royal Academy of Engineering, Prince Philip House, 3 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5DG

The Productivity & Futures of Work GRP supported the Supply Chain Innovation Forum event 'Building next generation of resilient and net-zero supply chains'. This event was also supported by Warwick Manufacturing Group, Warwick Business School and the Institute for Global Sustainable Development.

The main focus of the event was on industrial practices and innovation, and the forum’s purpose is to offer innovative insights, engaging and inspiring talks, sharing knowledge and best practices to address key supply chain challenges across industries, networking and collaboration to support supply chain, procurement, sustainability, and logistics leaders.

Speakers included:

Andrew New (CEO, NHS Supply Chain)
Ruth Todd CBE(CCO, HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd)
Cyril Pourrat (Founder and Chairman, BT Sourced)
Dr. Heiko Gierhardt (Director, JLR)
Martin Barrow, (Director, The Carbon Trust)
Lionnel Salaun (Head of Process Chain, JLR)
Chris Andrews (Digital Supply Chain Partner EY)
Christophe PHILIPPART (Vice President Resilinc)
Peter Robertshaw OBE (Partner Tata Consultancy Services)
Kerry Kirwan (Deputy Pro-VC, University of Warwick)
Alok Choudhary (Head of Supply Chain Group, University of Warwick)

Date: Thursday 29th June 2023

Location: Radcliffe Conference Centre

The event included presentations on key topics on AI in Healthcare, a Poster competition, a 'Pitch Your Concept' competition and stimulating discussions on ethical considerations of AI in healthcare.

The Productivity & the Futures of Work and Health GRP collaborated for a one-day workshop which brought together AI professionals, students and hobbyists from different disciplines to interact with clinicians and medical students from the Warwick Medical School in order to raise awareness and understanding of the issues at stake in the deployment of AI in healthcare and medicine.

Date: Friday 23rd June 2023

Time: 15:30 - 18:00

Location: MB0.08, Mathematical Science, University of Warwick

Speakers included Dr Sally Wright and Professor Neil Spencer.

This seminar was organised jointly by the Business & Industrial Section (BIS) & the West Midlands Local Group (WMLG) of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and was supported by the Productivity and the Futures of Work GRP.

Date and time: Thursday, 22 June 2023 10:00 - 17:30 BST

Location: A1.11, Applied linguistics, University of Warwick, University Road, Coventry CV4 7AL

When: Tuesday 20th June 2023

Where: Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

The seminar focused on the theme of new boundaries in entrepreneurship research. Researchers will came together to discuss current themes and challenges in the entrepreneurship research field and practice, and investigated new priorities and streams for research..

Date: Wednesday 24th May 2023

Location: 1.015 Warwick Business School

Dr Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos led a presentation at the monthly Productivity ECR Network meeting, supported by the Productivity and Futures of Work GRP.

Panagiotis presented a seminar on 'Foreign operation modes of emerging market micromultinationals (mMNEs) under uncertainty: A real-options approach'.

The Parent Carer Wellbeing conference took place on 10^th May 2023 in Kentish Town, London. It was held in a Disability Centre called the Greenwood Centre with useful links to public transport.

Family carers were invited from across the UK and people reported travelling from as far as Liverpool and Bristol to attend the event.

Feedback was positive with 100% of respondents reporting that they would recommend this conference to family carers in the future.

When: Thursday 8th December 17:00 – 19:00

Where: 1.005, Warwick Business School

Jonathan Duck from Amtico Flooring presented the awards for 2022 Essay & Video Competition.

The 2022 Essay & Video Competition Winners:

UG: Xaymaca Awoyungbo

Postgraduate: Krishna Shah

Dr Rupy Sawhney (University of Tennessee):

Becoming a Global Compassionate Servant Leader - Alignment Between Productivity and Retention Levels

Thursday 10th November 2022, University of Warwick

An operational excellence model in which the reduction of work-related stress and the enhancement of employee well-being are incorporated into the design of productive systems and organizations was developed by the Center for Advanced Systems Research and Education (CASRE) at the University of Tennessee. We believe it is necessary to change the mindset that either productivity wins or employee well-being wins. One of the essential steps in this process is to change the focus from the word "efficiency"—which is code for making people work faster or harder—to "reliability"—the design of systems that provide employees with all the resources to allow them to complete the assigned work. Our model—presented in four modules—transforms organizational productivity while simultaneously reducing employee effort and stress. The model is presented as the basis of global compassionate servant leadership since, besides all the technical components, it also includes factors that will increase the self-awareness of each individual and find a way to align the company's interests with individual personal aspirations.

Recording of the webinar linked here.