Guest lecture „Organisational Mindfulness - A New Perspective on Organisational Change” by Dr. Guido Becke

About the guest lecture Due to economic globalisation, companies often intend to adapt to dynamic markets by more or less permanent reorganisation – however, often accompanied by unintended side effects, as a decline in employees‘ motivation and performance, an increase of psycho-social stress at work and enhanced job insecurity. The concept of organisational mindfulness facilitates a dynamic stability of organisations by focusing on organising principles which enable managers and employees to cope with the unexpected in permanent change and to build up resources sustainably. The concept of organisational mindfulness is introduced by the example of a German research project on organisational change. About the speaker Dr. Guido Becke graduated in Social Sciences (Diploma) at the Ruhr-University Bochum (1987). Afterwards he worked for more than a decade at the Social Research Centre, a federal research institute of the county Northrhine-Westphalia, based in Dortmund. At this institute, he co-ordinated a research area dealing with work and ecological modernisation. Moreover, his research involved the design of work in different sectors, e.g. Public Transport and Automobile Industry. In 2001, Guido Becke received his doctorate in Sociology. His dissertation dealt with the emergence of established-outsider-groups in organisational change processes. Since 2002, Dr. Becke has been conducting his research at the Bremen University. From 2002 to 2014, he was a member of artec|Centre for Sustainability Studies. Since then, he has been a research manager at the Institute Labour and Economy (Bremen University). Dr. Becke obtained his second doctoral degree (2007) in Labour Studies (habilitation) and lectures regularly in Public Health in the area of health promotion in the workplace. His research interests contain: Work and sustainability, health promotion in the workplace, interaction work, organisational change and organisational mindfulness. Working language: English Participation: free of charge We are looking forward to seeing you there! Your Baltic-German University Liaison Office