Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources

Overview

The Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources (OBHR) research group develops scientific knowledge to address social problems related to wellbeing and quality of working life, innovation, and performance at work, while identifying potential intervention strategies for policy makers and organisational agents. It focuses on different levels of analysis: individual, team and organisational.

Wellbeing, ageing, and performance: studies person-organisation fit and wellbeing, focusing on how organisations can be more productive and innovative while promoting employee wellbeing through different life stages. Attention is being given to organisational identification, support, wellbeing, job satisfaction, work-non work interface, presentism, creativity and performance.
Leadership, teamwork, and networks: studies group processes and teams over time and contexts, analysing which team compositions variables and processes become critical to team ongoing performance and when. Team work performance, leadership, diversity, cognitions, affective-motivational processes, conflicts, negotiation and decision-making are relevant research topics. The dynamics of processes and states to explain team adaptation and performance trajectories are also studied.
HR management and organisational dynamics: studies how employees and human resource practices promote sustainable organization leadership, health and safety, social responsibility, training, and entrepreneurship are among the main research topics.

Group Coordinator

Ana Patrícia Duarte

patricia.duarte@iscte-iul.pt

Facts and Numbers

ABS4*/ABS4/ABS3 in 2018-2023

JCR Q1/SJR Q1 in 2018-2023

Integrated Researchers

Associate Researchers

Research Assistants

Active projects in 2018-2023

Main Areas of Research

Organisational Behaviour
Human Resources
Wellbeing
Innovation

Main Achievements

Research leading to the improvement of the quality of care and patient safety in European hospitals, to the prevention of psychosocial risks and to helping enterprises learn from accidents. This was the result of 3 European projects (ORCAB; QUASER; and RISKSINSMES), involving 10 universities and hospitals from 9 European countries; partners from 5 countries; and stakeholders from several organisations in 4 European Countries.
Computerised batteries and selection instruments with important implications in different fields of intervention were developed, namely the Computerised Multifactorial Memory Battery, and the Neuropsychological Battery for Multiple Sclerosis Assessment was adapted for the Portuguese population.
Identification of practices that promote sustainable organisational development and performance, providing recommendations for job design and HRM practices that take into account age-related differences at work and help reduce presentism.