To launch and coordinate interdisciplinary research, education and dissemination in coaching, coaching psychology and related fields
Coaching for employee engagement: The role of basic psychological need support and satisfaction
Coaching lecture series "Coaching - Research and Practice"
Dr Gordon Spence
Dr Gordon Spence who is Program Director of the Master of Business Coaching at Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong. He is a lecturer and coaching psychologist who is currently researching the impact of workplace coaching on basic psychological need satisfaction and employee engagement.
Coaching is fundamentally concerned with assisting people to generate motivation for purposive action. Yet, surprisingly, theories of motivation have not been prominent in coaching research to date. In this talk, Dr Gordon Spence will provide an overview of self-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 1985) and discuss its relevance to both coaching practice and research. He will also outline the details of a coaching research project currently being conducted within a large Australian organisation, using quasi-experimental methods (n=100). Preliminary findings from this study will be discussed, with particular emphasis given to three hypothesised antecedents of employee engagement (psychological need support, psychological need satisfaction, autonomous motivation) and the impact of coaching on these core SDT variables.
Please note: The lecture starts at 4:30 pm.
Venue
Store Auditorium, Institut for Idræt og Ernæring, Nørre Allé 53, 2200 København N
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Participation is free of charge, but we kindly ask you to sign up here (danish).
Further information
Reinhard Stelter
Coaching Psychology Unit, University of Copenhagen
The lecture is part of a series of lectures titled "Coaching - research and
practice", which is sponsored by the EMCC. The lecture series aims to build a bridge between research and praxis in coaching and at the same time embed coaching practices in the research discourse. The intention is to hear from researchers, who explore coaching from a business, health or sports related angle. The Coaching Psychology Unit at the University of Copenhagen was established in order to launch and coordinate interdisciplinary research, education and dissemination in coaching.
Coaching lecture series
The series of lectures "Coaching - research and practice" aims to build a bridge between research and praxis in coaching and related fields and at the same time embed coaching practices in the research discourse.
The intention is to hear from researchers and reflective practitioners, who explore coaching and related topics from a business, health or sports related angle.
The Danish branch of EMCC – The European Mentoring and Coaching Council, sponsors the series of lectures and webinars.
Sponsor
The lecture series is sponsored by EMCC Denmark.
