Saturday 25 July 09:30
- 11:00
Hall: O-Arsenale
Chair:
Reichman Walter
Discussant:
Di Fabio Annamaria
Division: Division 1: Work and Organizational Psychology
Trust is the cement that holds people, organizations, communities, countries and the nations of the world together. Multilateralism was the name given to the cement created after World War II which gave rise to the United Nations and regional organizations to maintain peace and improve our social and economic lives. Multilateralism is now being supplanted by a return to nationalism ,individuality, competition for resources and threats of conflict. This symposium is designed to describe the intricacies of establishing trust, its fragility and the difficulty of resurrecting it when it ends. There will be four presenters and a discussant who are recognized experts in their area of research and advocacy.
Jeffrey Saltzman is CEO of a leading management consulting firm who has consulted with organizations around the world in methods of building trust and engagement within their organizations.
Richard Plenty and Terri Morrissey have worked for over 20 years on assignments that support international collaboration. They received the Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association for their activities.
Raymond Saner has been a researcher and consultant to the United Nations for several decades and has fostered the acceptance and implementation of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Europe, Asia and Africa.
The first presentation by Raymond Saner will examine the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), only17%of them having been achieved. He will point to the necessity of collaboration among governments, private sector and civil society if the goals are to be achieved.
The second presentation by Richard Plenty will describe ways of dealing with complex global challenges using his four-step model of Reflect, Strategize, Explore, and Act to develop trust and transformational relationships.
The third presentation by Jeff Saltzman will focus on how to build trust within organizations using businesses as an example. He will describe how trust promotes organizational success and participant satisfaction, and how it can be resurrected when eroded.
The fourth presentation by Her Excellency Bint Hamad Hessa from Qatar will focus on research and clinical applications of a culturally-rooted measure of wellbeing: the Al-hayat Al-tayiba Wellbeing instrument. Well-being could be a crucial and promising ingredient in building trust.
The discussant is Annamaria Di Fabio, Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology as well as Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development (PS&SD) at the University of Florence. She founded the PS&SD research and intervention area officially in 2016 as Section editor in the Journal Sustainability Science (Editor in chief Kazuhiko Takeuchi).
