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Invited Talks

Phang, R. (Oct, 2023).

 

Behavioral Science as a Competitive Advantage in a 120-year-old Philippine Family Conglomerate

Behavioural Science Network (BSN), Singapore

Discover the ways a Singapore-based internal behavioral science team supports a Philippine conglomerate in its transformation into a techglomerate. The paths and solutions it takes across industries (e.g., power, manufacturing, and banking) and workarounds to balance stakeholders interests.

Phang, R. (2018).

 

How to use Evidence-based HRM?

 

JIA, Kyrgzstan

Personnel Management in Kyrgyzstan is in a state of change towards a more strategic HRM. But what is beyond strategic HRM? What can be done to strengthen and accentuate the efforts towards long-term thinking in HRM? This 3 hour workshop shows you the future-thinking of HRM, the philosophy that underlies people analytics, and the principles to implement Evidence-based HRM in your organization.

Phang, R. (2017).

 

Pay for Performance Dilemma. (绩效奖励的悖论)

 

School of Public Policy, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China. – Presentation in Mandarin Chinese.

绩效奖励研究领域存在着一个实证性的悖论。如今是否有更好的研究方法去理解及形容绩效奖励的效应。该讲座对一个常被误解的理论(Adams Equity Theory, 1965) 进行梳理,接着展示如何运用代理人虚拟模型对该理论进行计算实验。以此实验勾画运用代理人虚拟模型时的关键点。

Phang, R. (2015).

 

Agent-based Modeling in OBHR Research.

 

Complexity Institute. Nanyang Technological University.

Computer simulation is opined to be a methodological outpost in organizational behavior and human resource (OBHR) research by various domain leaders such as James G. March. I argue this is not entirely true. In this talk, I will outline unique characteristics of OBHR, and use the context of performance pay and workplace motivation to illustrate how agent-based modelling (ABM) can push theoretical boundaries and reconcile paradoxes.

Here, we use ABM to understand a basic but important question for OBHR: how performance pay interacts with violations of fairness, for instance unequal pay, to affect aggregate output. At its base, the model shows fairness restoration as a sufficient mechanism for performance pay to work, and experimentations with individual-level differences reveal phase transitions and synchronies pointing to new lines of research. Amongst other findings, the model shows the lens afforded by ABM allows a theory to be contemplated at various levels, time scales, and often in non-linear and complex ways.

Phang, R. (2012).

 

Spread of Unhappiness and Riots. Insights from Agent-based Modeling

 

SMRT, Singapore

Riots is a social phenomenon, while happiness is often seen as an individual's emotional state. The bus driver riots in 2012 has not just racial and nationality undertone, it shows that echo chambers of opinions, shapes attitudes, and may even lead to inoculation of alternative views. This presentation used advances in 2-dimensional network to illustrate and show how unhappiness may spread and how by ensuring fair and just treatment of worker is only part of the picture towards controlling future riots.

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