Workshop 1 Oct 2018: Improving the employment of highly educated women with foreign backgrounds in Finland

International research seminar: Gender in Male-Dominated Organizations, WeAll as a co-organizer

Invisibilities of Business Violence Seminar 23.9.2019

Associate professor Marjut Jyrkinen from WeAll is a keynote speaker in the seminar. Her latest book, with Elina Penttinen and Elisabeth Wide, is Emotional Workplace Abuse. A new Reseach Approach,  published in 2019 by Palgrave MacMillan.

Within business schools, violence is rarely mentioned as an outcome of business activities. Yet in contemporary studies from various fields, a number of connections between business and violence have been made increasingly explicit, from the expulsions caused by global market dynamics (cf. Sassen 2014), to violence associated with gendered globalization (Hearn et al. 2017), to the violent outcomes of firm activities in various developing contexts (e.g. Chowdhury in press; Varman and al Amoudi 2016), to intra-organizational emotional abuse (Penttinen et al. 2019). While violence in these contexts takes different shapes, a seemingly common feature is the role of invisibilities: of violence itself, of those people (and sometimes non-human animals) on whom violence is perpetrated, and of the role that business directly or indirectly plays in this.

In this seminar, we invite four expert scholars on the question of business and violence to present and discuss insights from some of their recent and ongoing work:

o             Dr. Rashedur Chowdhury: (PhD, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge) Associate Professor at Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, and a Batten Fellow at Darden Business School, University of Virginia. His most recent works focus on the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh and the Rohingya and Syrian refugee crises.

o             Prof. Jeff Hearn: Professor Emeritus, Management and Organisation; Research Director, GODESS Institute (Gender, Organisation, Diversity, Equality, Social Sustainability), Hanken. He has been involved long-term in international research and policy development around both (anti-)violence, and gender and diversity in organisations and management, e.g. the books, Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Organizations 2001, and Unsustainable Institutions of Men 2019.

o             Dr. Marjut Jyrkinen: Associate Professor in Working Life Equality and Gender Studies, University of Helsinki, and director of research consortium on sustainable working life (weallfinland.fi), funded by the Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland. Her research on gendered violence and violations in and outside organizations, leadership, and gendered ageism has been published in Gender, Work and Organization, Journal of Business Ethics, Gender in Management, and Work, Employment and Society. Her latest book, with Elina Penttinen and Elisabeth Wide, is Emotional Workplace Abuse. A new Reseach Approach,  published in 2019 by Palgrave MacMillan.

o             Prof. Rohit Varman: Professor of Marketing and Consumption at University of Birmingham. He uses interpretive methodologies and his current inter-disciplinary research focuses on structures of subalternity, market violence, and modern slavery. He has published in leading journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Retailing, Organization Science, and Human Relations.

Visit the webpage of the event here. The seminar is free of charge but registration is mandatory, please register here.

Workshop: Developing employment and entrepreneurship services

TIME: 24 September 2019 1 pm – 4 pm

PLACE: Think Corner, University of Helsinki, Yliopistonkatu 4 (Think Lounge, 2^nd floor)

In this workshop we will develop services aimed at enhancing the employment and entrepreneurship of people with foreign backgrounds living in Finland. We will tackle the fragmented nature of the often project-based services. We will take a hands-on attitude in order to improve the services, aiming to enhance their accessibility and impact.

To kick off the event we will hear short presentations by service providers and users. After the presentations we will work in groups to tackle specified problems and find paths to solutions.

We will work in Finnish and in English. The discussion groups are going to be arranged according to the preferred language and interests of the participant.

More info on the programme: www.facebook.com/events/1365590430262397/

A warm welcome to the providers, users, and funders of the services! 

Organizers: EntreFox Project (55+ entrepreneurs and working life, http://www.turkuamk.fi/fi/tutkimus-kehitys-ja-innovaatiot/hae-projekteja/entrefox/)

Centre of Expertise in Immigrant Integration at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment (kotouttaminen.fi/en/frontpage)

WeAll Research Consortium (Social and Economic Sustainability of Future Working Life, www.weallfinland.fi)

Women to Work Project (Helsingin kaupungin TYP, www.hel.fi/helsinki/en/administration/enterprises/employment/adult-services/)

In collaboration with:  Suomen Yrittäjät

Invitation as a PDF-file

Gender in Male-Dominated Organizations – seminar at JSBE (6 November 2019)

Gender Studies 2019 conference – Call for Pa­pers

CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN  21st of March 2019 – 30th of April  

WeAllFinland is a co-organizer in the Gender Studies 2019 Conference: On Violence
24th of October – 26th of October 2019
University of Helsinki, Finland

WeAll organizes a workshop in the conference on working life themes:

Mira Karjalainen and Marjut Jyrkinen: Organizational Violence and Violations, Gender and Blurring Boundaries of Work   

We warmly welcome paper proposals on this topic.

Please read more: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/gender-studies-2019-conference/call-for-papers

The conference welcomes paper proposals for the Gender Studies 2019 Conference: On Violence. The Call is open until the 30th of April, 2019. We warmly invite scholars from a variety of locations in the Global North and South to participate in the discussions on violence. We welcome paper proposals for the wide range of workshops featured on the program. We have 40 workshops that approach multiple aspects of violence and widely represent the multidisciplinary field of gender, sexuality, queer, trans, disability, postcolonial, and critical race studies.

Sustainable working life and changing boundaries – seminar March 27th 2019

Akava, the WeAll project , and the GODESS Institute are organising a joint seminar ”Sustainable working life and changing boundaries”. The seminar is organised at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki (Arkadiankatu 22) March 27th 2019 at 13.30-17.00.

The seminar focuses on ongoing changes in working life and their impact, especially on young adults’ wellbeing and coping at work. The seminar includes latest research results from WeAll on burnout at work, mindfulness programmes in companies, and women knowledge professionals’ talk about work and family. The seminar language is English.

Program and registration.

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Workshop 1 Oct 2018: Improving the employment of highly educated women with foreign backgrounds in Finland

Ratkaisuriihi: Ulkomaalaistaustaisten korkeasti koulutettujen naisten työllistyminen

Workshop: Improving the employment of highly educated women with foreign backgrounds in Finland

1.10.2018 klo 13.00-16.00

Helsingin yliopisto, Tiedekulma (Yliopistonkatu 4), Think Lounge (2. krs.)

You are warmly welcome to this workshop with the aim of improving the employment of highly educated women with foreign background in Finland. The programme consists of short presentations and lots of discussions between jobseekers, employers, officials, NGOs and researchers. We will be working in Finnish and in English.

Olet lämpimästi tervetullut WeAll-tutkimuskonsortion järjestämään ratkaisuriiheen, jonka aiheena on korkeasti koulutettujen ulkomaalaistaustaisten naisten työllistymisen edistäminen.

Ohjelmassa on asiantuntijapuheenvuoroja sekä runsaasti aikaa ryhmäkeskusteluille. Tilaisuudessa kohtaavat yhteiskehittämisen hengessä työnhakijat, työnantajat, viranomaiset, kolmannen sektorin toimijat sekä tutkijat. Tilaisuuden kielet ovat suomi ja englanti.

Organizers: WeAll Research Consortium, Monika – Multicultural Women’s Association and the Centre of Expertise in Immigrant Integration at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. In collaboration with The Finnish National Agency for Education (recognition of qualifications) and University of Helsinki Career Services.

WeAll-hankkeen kanssa yhteistyössä Monika-Naiset Liitto sekä työ- ja elinkeinoministeriön kotouttamisen osaamiskeskus. Mukana myös mm. Helsingin yliopiston Urapalvelut sekä Opetushallitus (tutkintojen tunnustaminen).

Registration / Ilmoittautuminen

https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/91365/lomake.html

Programme / Ohjelma

13.00 Short presentations / Puheenvuorot

Bahar Mozaffari (Espoon seudun koulutuskuntayhtymä Omnia sekä Monika-Naiset liitto ry)

Tytti Steel (WeAll-tutkimuskonsortio, Helsingin yliopisto)

Sari Haavisto (Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö)

Riikka Laitinen ja Marisel Soto Godoy (Monika-Naiset Liitto)

Aino Ezeonodo (Sote-silta -hanke, Metropolia ammattikorkeakoulu)

Sara Salmani (Miltton Oy)

14.00 Group discussions / Keskustelut

Preliminary list of themes for discussions / Alustava lista keskusteltavista teemoista

Recognition of qualifications/ Tutkintojen tunnustaminen

Work-life balance / Työn ja muun elämän yhdistäminen

Official services for jobseekers / Viranomaisten ohjaus- ja neuvontapalvelut

Networking / Työelämäyhteydet

Recognising and communicating one’s strengths / Osaamisen tunnistaminen ja osaamisesta viestiminen

16.00 End of the workshop / Tilaisuus päättyy

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Father Managers at Work and Home – New WeAll-video captures research in two minutes

As a part of WeAllFinland Consortium,  a research group in the Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics carried out a study on male managers’ attitudes to the integration of work and family life. Managers are an important group in this respect because they serve as role models in the workplace and influence the kind of values and practices that shape the work-family relationship. The men in our study both relied on the traditional idea of the relationship between fatherhood and work, and constructed new possibilities.

Watch the video.

European Business Ethics Network EBEN Annual Conference 14-16 June, 2017

The 2017 EBEN Annual Conference will take place June 14-16, at the University of Jyväskylä School of Business and Economics, JSBE (Finland), and it will be preceded by a one-day workshop for doctoral students on June 13.

Gender + sex = gex?

It is important to discuss scientific concept in a deeper level. In his presentation, on 16th March 2017 professor emeritus Jeff Hearn analysed concepts, such as, gender, organisation and diversity and demonstrated the complexity of these concepts. One example of this is the concept gender. There has been increased criticism towards the concept of gender, while simultaneously its use in and outside academia has been widely established. As one solution Hearn offered the concept gex that is an umbrella term than includes refers to different ways in which gender and sex may be related to each other, or not.

Jeff Hearn gave a presentation at Hanken in GODESS-institute’s seminar about the Institute’s history and its focus. GODESS Institute combines research on gender, organisations, diversity, intersectionality, equality, social sustainability and transnationalisation. In his presentation Hearn discussed different ways of approaching these concepts and the relations between them.

Call for Papers and Special Tracks for the European Business Ethics Network EBEN Annual Conference 2017 – co-organized by WeAllFinland

The organizers would like to welcome contributions for the European Business Ethics Network EBEN Annual Conference 2017 ‘Searching for Sustainability in Future Working Life’

June 14 –16, 2017

University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Web site

Much of the discussion around sustainability has focused only on the environmental aspect. In this conference we aim to extend the discussion to include other aspects of sustainability, especially in the context of future working life, its organizing, managing and leadership. Working life is facing significant social, technological, cultural, economic and environmental changes. We want to explore the meaning of these changes and their challenges to private and other organizations, their management and leadership.

We invite contributions from academics, policymakers and practitioners. We are interested in contributions on topics which are on the rise in changing working life. The range of possible topics includes, but is not limited to, the following themes from the perspective of working life:

Workforce diversity, intersectionality, inclusion and equality

24/7 demands, work-life/family integration, work wellbeing and quality of life

Development of human and social capital

Organizational change, renewal and culture

Labor and human rights concerns

Responsibility/ethics in leadership and HRM

Good governance

Human and social aspects of accounting

Social/organizational innovation and social enterprise

Ethical challenges of digitalization/social media

Stakeholder engagement and value creation

(E-)learning/teaching and business ethics

Climate change and other environmental challenges

Submissions:

The language of the conference is English.

Special track proposals, due to December 30^st, 2016

Special track proposals should be about 1000 words long and should be submitted in a doc-format to pasi.sajasalo@jyu.fi and tommi.p.auvinen@jyu.fi

Abstracts or full papers for presentations, due on March 1^st, 2017

Internet abstract and paper submission system is soon open. Please, follow the conference website.

Decisions on acceptance will be sent at latest by April 1^st, 2017.

Pre-conference doctoral seminar

PhD candidates are invited to attend a one-day pre-conference doctoral seminar on Tuesday June 13, 2017. The aim of the workshop is to provide guidance and support for advancing the student’s doctoral dissertation and the presentation of her/his ideas. The workshop will consist of a joint programme for all the participants and individual mentoring discussions.

The conference is organized by

The WeAll Research Consortium ‘Social and Economic Sustainability of Future Working Life: Policies, Equalities and Intersectionalities in Finland’ (funded by the programme Equality in Society, Strategic Funding of the Academy of Finland, n:o 292883),

The University of Jyväskylä School of Business and Economics,

The University of Tampere School of Management, and

The Finnish Chapter of the European Business Ethics Network EBEN

Sincerely

Anna-Maija Lämsä

Professor

Conference chair

Johanna Kujala

Associate professor

Programme chair

For further information and electronic abstract system, please visit:

Website

Professor Ann Phoenix to deliver closing remarks at WeAll seminar this Thursday

Professor Ann Phoenix from the University of Helsinki will be delivering the closing words at the WeAll “Pressure as a Catalyst for Change?” seminar this Thursday at Hanken. The seminar will be held at the Hanken Festsalen from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm and is open to the public. Leading up the seminar, we wanted to ask Professor Phoenix about her current research focus.

What is your current research focus in and how does it relate to the themes of the WeAll project?

My current research is on family lives, environment, transnational migration and masculinities in Finnish boys. All of these themes fit with the themes of WeAll in that all are concerned with equality and diversity as well as wellbeing. The Project on Family Lives and Environment that I am currently writing up is about getting more complex understandings of what environment means to members of families, with a view to developing really sustainable practices. It considered rural-urban commonalities and differences for affluent and economically poor families in India and the UK. The small-scale study of boys and masculinities aims to understand boys’ masculinities in a changing Finland where ethnic diversity is more foregrounded than previously.

In your opinion, why are the themes researched in the WeAll Project especially crucial in the context of the Finnish society today?

Issues of intersectional equalities and social justice are increasingly central to global agenda, where, in a post-Brexit world with Donald Trump as president elect of the US, parochialism, racism and sexism are being taken-for-granted By some as ordinary and acceptable. The serious attention paid By the WeAll Project to multiple, multilayered inequalities and their intersections is both admirable and crucial for ensuring that Finnish society addresses its increasing plurality in ways that enable all its citizens to thrive.

To see the full seminar program please visit here. We look forward to an engaging afternoon!

Professor Ann Phoenix

Njoki Githieya: “The injustice of stereotypes” this Thursday at the WeAll “Pressure as a Catalyst for Change?” seminar

Njoki Githieya, representing Monika – Multicultural Women’s Association,  will be speaking at the WeAll “Pressure as a Catalyst for Change?” seminar this Thursday at Hanken. The seminar will be held at the
Hanken Festsalen from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm and is open to the public. Leading up the seminar, we wanted to ask Njoki Githieya about her current research focus.

What is your current research focus in and how does it relate to the themes of the WeAll project?

My current research is focused on “the perception of vulnerable and minority groups” specifically the refugee crisis and how positive or negative perception influences and affects the spaces in which they exist and interact.

I am interested in creating spaces in which marginalized groups receive equal opportunity to compete and exist in a diverse society with access to equality and non-discrimination, my aim is to speak up for the “other” dispel stereotypes and propose a new approach for interaction. Building trusting relationships therefore increasing the success of integration and diversity in my community. Exposing and challenging the cultural, economic and political underbelly will advance further the themes of the WeAll project.

In your opinion, why are the themes researched in the WeAll project especially crucial in the context of the Finnish society today?

It is critical that these discussions are encouraged and protected in an increasingly polarized world. Debate creates dialogue and an opportunity to change an opinion or influence policy. Which is simply another step closer to equality and diversity. There is a staggeringly low absorption rate of minority groups into professional emloyment sectors in Finland, is this not impetus for us to identify why and propose solutions that encourage positive change?

We look forward to Njoki Githieya’s presentation “The Injustice of Stereotypes”. To see the full seminar program please visit here. We look forward to an engaging afternoon!

“Unpacking the problem of research access(es)” (Mira Karjalainen, Charlotta Niemistö and Jeff Hearn, WeAll) now as a sample article of Emerald Publishing

“Unpacking the problem of research access(es)” written by WeAll  researchers Mira Karjalainen, Charlotta Niemistö and Jeff Hearn is now available on line for free, as a sample article of Emerald Publishing:

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/QROM-12-2013-1189

http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=QROM

Seminar November 24th: Pressure as a catalyst for change? Employment, diversity and immigration in the 2010s

WeAll organise an open seminar
Pressure as a catalyst for change? Employment, diversity and immigration in the 2010s

Time: Thursday, November 24 at 1 pm – 4 pm
Location: Hanken | Svenska handelshögskolan, Arkadiagatan 22, 00101 Helsinki

In the past few years, war and poverty have forced millions of people in Africa and the Middle East to leave their homes. In 2015, in particular, many asylum seekers sought refuge in Europe, including in Finland. This, coinciding with the economic recession and high unemployment, has been argued by some to cause tensions in receiving countries.

Can such pressures act as a catalyst for increasing and deepening equality and anti-discrimination in working life? Can these processes be a catalyst for more critical understandings of whiteness, (anti-)racism and diversity? Finnish society has thus far failed to recognize and harness fully the skills and education of immigrants. This makes it difficult for people who have recently arrived in Finland to secure a position in the labour market. Who are “the immigrants”, and in what kind of position are they in in the labour force? How can the term “immigrants” even be deployed, when the people grouped under that term are so diverse?

Program

13.00 Welcome, Chair and Adjunct Professor Mira Karjalainen, University of Helsinki and Hanken School of Economics

*Welcome to Hanken and WeAll Project, Principal Investigator Charlotta Niemistö, Hanken School of Economics

*Thinking about how differences connect with each other: on diversity, multiculturalism and intersectionality, Professor Jeff Hearn, Hanken and Örebro University

*Thinking about how differences connect with each other: on diversity, multiculturalism and intersectionality, Professor Jeff Hearn, Hanken and Örebro University

*Historical perspective on migration and immigration in Finland, Adjunct Professor Markku Mattila, Institute of Migration

*The injustice of stereotypes, Njoki Githieya, Monika – Multicultural Women’s Association

14.05 Short break

Potpourri of ongoing WeAll-Research:

*Business Lead 2016 – integration program delivered by Hanken & SSE and Hanken, CEO and Adjunct Professor Sari Salojärvi

*Immigrant Women in the Labour Market in Finland – Hurdles, Options and Empowerments, Post-doctoral researcher Researcher Tytti Steel, University of Helsinki

*Immigrant labour in rural businesses, Senior Researcher Merja Lähdesmäki and Postgraduate student Timo Suutari, Ruralia Institute, University of Helsinki

*Gendered Discourses on Care and Work in Refugee Centres in Finland, Research Director and Associate Professor, Marjut Jyrkinen, University of Helsinki

Closing remarks, Professor Ann Phoenix, University of Helsinki

15.30 Mingling with refreshments, wine service

16.00 Seminar ends

Live stream at: https://hanken.kurssi.tv/lives/weall/

Weall Project presents at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships in Edinburgh

Weall researcher Professor Marjut Jyrkinen and Weall scientific advisory board member Professor Linda McKie on (Re)searching for equality in working life at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships.

Wednesday 5 October 2016 • 12.30 to 1.30
CRFR meeting room, 23 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh

http://www.crfr.ac.uk/crfr-seminar-researching-for-equality-in-working-life-the-weall-project/

Professor Linda McKie (WeAll Scientific Advisory Board) on Unpaid Care and Paid Work

Professor Linda McKie from Durham University (WeAll Scientific Advisory Board) gives a talk on Unpaid Care and Paid Work:

http://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/2016/09/14/fhss-seminar-by-prof-linda-mckie/

Adjunct Professor Mira Karjalainen (Weall) speaks at Holey Money? Symposium on September 16th in Helsinki

Adjunct Professor Mira Karjalainen from Weall Project speaks at Holey Money? Symposium on September 16th  in Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24).

More information: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/copassion/holy-money-symposium/

European Business Ethics Network EBEN 2017-konferenssi: Searching for Sustainability in Future Working Life

The 2017 EBEN Annual Conference will take place June 14-16, at the University of Jyväskylä School of Business and Economics, JSBE (Finland).

The theme of the conference is “Searching for Sustainability in Future Working Life“.

The conference is organized in cooperation between the WeAll Research Consortium ‘Social and Economic Sustainability of Future Working Life: Policies, Equalities and Intersectionalities in Finland’ (funded by the programme Equality in Society, Strategic Funding of the Academy of Finland, n:o 292883), the University of Jyväskylä School of Business and Economics, the University of Tampere School of Management, and the Finnish Chapter of the European Business Ethics Network EBEN.

More information: https://www.jyu.fi/jsbe/ebenac2017

Jeff Hearn becomes Honorary Doctor

WeAll researcher professor Jeff Hearn becomes Honorary Doctor at Lund University. Professor Hearn is the second from the left.