Supporting Organizations
Il Nodo Group Association
IL NODO group is a not-for-profit scientific-cultural
organisation that historically originated from a multiprofessional team established in Turin in the Nineties. Since
over a decade it carries out research, training and consultancy
in the areas of human relations and group and organisations
dynamics, in collaboration with the Tavistock Clinic and
Institute, London, and other scientific national and international
institutions. IL NODO is currently doing some studies and
research and offers training and consultancy services in the
health and social fields, in the industry, in the field of education,
in social cooperation and in the civil service. It is also in charge
of the organisation of the Italian Group Relations Conferences
“Authority, Leadership and Innovation” that have been in place
since 1998 once a year in collaboration with the Tavistock
& Portman NHS Trust, London UK, and the CESMA, Milan.
FACOLTA
ECONOMIA
TORINO
Envy at work: emotional and financial
costs of organizational envy
International Symposium
Turin, Italy, September 22nd -24th, 2011
University of Turin, Faculty of Business and Economics
Corso Unione Sovietica 218bis
ECM Credits
Requested for all professional figures.
Associazione
“Envy at work”
IL NODO GROUP
Viale XXV Aprile, 159/18 - 10133 TORINO
Sede ammin.: c/o Coop. Soc. Chronos Via Rombò, 35 - 10098 Rivoli (TO)
tel. +39 011 9553401 - fax +39 011 9553410
e-mail: [email protected]
IL NODOGROUP
FORMAZIONE CONSULENZA RICERCA
Keynote speakers:
Yochi Cohen-Charash – Professor, Department of Psychology,
Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New
York, USA
Michelle Duffy – Professor, Carlson School of Management,
Department of Human Resources and Industrial Relations, University
of Minnesota, USA
Robert D. Hinshelwood – Professor, Centre for Psychoanalytic
Studies, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Mark Stein – Professor, School of Management, University of
Leicester, UK
Bénédicte Vidaillet – Professor of Organizational Behaviour, IAE –
Institut d’Administration des Enterprises, University of Lille 1, France
Daniel Zizzo – Professor of Economics, Head of School, East Anglia
University, Norwich, UK
IL NODOGROUP
FORMAZIONE CONSULENZA RICERCA
Aims of the Symposium
Program
We aim to explore how envy develops
and manifests itself in organisational
and work contexts.
We believe that, although in these contexts envy is mostly
unsaid if not denied, the costs it imposes on people and
organisations cannot be overlooked.
Starting from an understanding of the economic contributions
that have focused on envy, through an integration with what
other disciplines – philosophy, social psychology, psychoanalysis,
sociology, political economy – have to offer in this respect,
we want to highlight and possibly measure the human and
economic costs that envy in the workplace imposes on
individuals and teams, and how it affects the atmosphere and
the destiny of the organisation itself.
As some recent researches seem to prove, powerful and
scarcely controllable emotions, such as envy, hold hostage
of the supposed rationality of economic and organisational
behaviours.
We wish to contribute:
• To draw the attention to the destructive sides of envy and
the severe damages they can cause to the organisation
and its members;
• To explore the attitudes of denial or the lack of recognition of envy that obstruct the perception of this feeling;
• To reconsider critically the positive aspects of envy, those
concerning emulation and competition, all too often overvalued if compared to the negative ones.
• To find envy indicators and tools to detect it, in view
• To search for methods and strategies which may help to
reduce or contain envy.
Scientific Committee
Giorgio Blandino – University of Turin
Salvo Capodieci – International School of
Educational Sciences, Venice Mestre
Ugo Merlone – University of Turin
Anton Obholzer – British Psychoanalytical Society
Mario Perini – Il Nodo Group
Maria Grazia Riva – University Bicocca, Milan
September 22,Thursday
13,00 – 14,00 Registration of participants
14,00 – 14,30 14,30 – 15,00
15,00 – 15,45 15,45 – 16,15 Opening Session and greeting of the authorities
G. Blandino – Introduction to the subject
B.Vidaillet – Envy, Schadenfreude and
Evaluation: Understanding the strange
desire to evaluate and to be evaluated
Discussion and Debate
16,15 – 16,45 Break
16,45 – 17,30 17,30 – 18,00 18,05 – 19,30 Y. Cohen-Charash – Workplace Envy: Past, Present and Future
Discussion and Debate
Parallel Sessions:
- The cultures of Envy
- Envy in the laboratory
- Envy between clinic and organization
September 23, Friday
9,00 – 9,45 9,45 – 10,15 M. Stein - The Othello Conundrum:
The contagion of leadership by envy
and jealousy
Discussion and Debate
10,15 – 10,45 Break
10,45 – 12,45 Parallel Sessions:
- Envy: a multi-perspective look
- The politics of Envy
- Envious organizations
Septembre 24, Saturday
9,00 – 9,45 9,45 – 10,15 10,15 – 11,00 11,00 – 11,30 R.H. Hinshelwood e K.Stamenova - Envy in Education: Reflections on Disturbances to Learning in Groups due to Envy and other Emotional States
Discussion and Debate
M. Duffy - The Enviers and the Envied
Discussion and Debate
11,30 – 12,00 Coffee Break
12,00 – 13,00
Synthesis & Concluding Plenary
Titles and sessions’ composition can be changed, on website is available
interventions’ update list.
Registration fees
Application by July 15th, 2011
€ 180,00 + VAT 20%
€ 90,00 + VAT 20% for students and trainees.
Application after July 15th, 2011
€ 210,00 + VAT 20%
€ 120,00 + VAT 20% for students and trainees.
€ 35,00 VAT included: social dinner
Ecm credits € 30,00 incl. Vat
The symposium is bilingual (italian and english)
with simultaneous translation
Registration can be made on website www.envy2011.org
12,45 – 14,30 Lunch break
Information
14,30 – 15,15 D. Zizzo – Social Envy
15,15 – 15,45 Discussion and Debate
15,45 – 16,30 E. Pulcini: presenting her book “Invidia”
Discussion and Debate
For more information please refer to the Symposium official website
www.envy2011.org or contact the Symposium Secretariat.
16,30 – 17,00 Coffee Break
17,00 – 19,00 Parallel sessions:
- Envy and Istitutional Groups
- Socioanalysis of Envy
- Envy and Learning
- Envy unveiled
20,00 Social dinner
Contacts
Scientific Committee: Information: [email protected]
[email protected]
Symposium Secretariat
Agenzia Mosaico s.r.l.
Via San Secondo, 31 – 10128 Turin
Tel. +39 011 5681238 +39 011 5684423
Fax + 39 011 505421 – www.agenziamosaico.com