Eminent Lecture Series 2020: Wellbeing at Work

Date and time:                                                       Location: 3^rd Floor
Monday, 17 Feb 2020                                              Conference hall
3:00-4:00 PM                                                          Zhichenkhar, Langjophakha

 Speaker:                                                                For registration contact:
Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve                           drukjimms@gmail.com
Saïd Business School                                                 pdem@bhutanstudies.org.bt
University of Oxford, UK                                           tzangmo@bhutanstudies.org.bt

Summary

In this lecture, Professor De Neve will present the latest research findings that empirically address key questions in the relationship between work and wellbeing. Leveraging global data sources, he will provide empirical answers to the following questions: How important is work for our wellbeing? Are we engaged while at work? Does employee wellbeing matter for performance? What drives employee wellbeing and how to improve employee wellbeing? The results of this empirical research provide a robust foundation for business and policy-makers to better understand employee wellbeing and aim to improve happiness and wellbeing across organizations and societies.

About the speaker:

Professor De Neve’s research interests are in behavioural economics, public policy and human wellbeing. He is the Director of the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford in the UK. His research has been published in academic outlets such as Science, Nature, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Psychological Science, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The underlying theme throughout his research is the study of human wellbeing. This ongoing research agenda has led to new insights in the relationship between happiness and income, productivity, economic growth, and inequality. His research was selected among ‘The Management Ideas that Mattered Most’ by the Harvard Business Review and he was awarded the inaugural Ruut Veenhoven Award for his contributions to the scientific study of happiness.

Professor De Neve has joined John Helliwell, Richard Layard, and Jeffrey Sachs as an associate editor of the World Happiness Report. He is a member of the Global Happiness Council and chairs its Workplace Wellbeing committee. He is a frequent advisor to governments and businesses, including the Gallup Organization and start-ups such as Psychological Technologies, Aula, and Butterfly AI. Jan obtained his PhD from the London School of Economics and was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University. His research and commentary regularly feature in the media, including in The Economist, the Financial Times, the Harvard Business Review, and on the BBC. He is a frequent speaker at academic and non-academic conferences, including at PopTech and TED. Alongside his role at Saïd Business School, Jan is the KSI Fellow and Vice-Principal of Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford.