Employee happiness and wellbeing is gaining popularity as a measurement of success for business. But how far are we from happiness replacing accounting and economic profit as the next big business metric? In his talk, Professor Georgellis will reflect critically on some of the issues surrounding this debate, including whether happy employees are indeed more productive and whether the HR function could harness employee happiness and wellbeing in order to improve engagement, motivation, and organizational performance. In a more controversial way, Prof Georgellis will also explore whether there is a ‘dark side’ of happiness at work.

Kent Business School and Maidstone Borough Council host Yannis Georgellis, Professor of Management at Kent Business School & Jane Burgess, Main Board Director for the John Lewis Partnership as they explain why happiness and wellbeing is so important.

Including lunch and a chance to network afterwards.