PWE Research Seminar
Seminar
Belonging, Voice and Leadership Influence in Sustainable HRM
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Event date
Thursday 19 March 2026, 1pm to 2pm
Location
In-person and online
Business Lounge, CL/A/002, Church Lane Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Business Lounge, CL/A/002, Church Lane Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Audience
Open to Staff, Postgraduate students and Final-year Undergraduates
Admission
Free admission, booking not required
Event details
We are delighted to welcome Dr Giovanni Oscar Serafini to the School for Business and Society for this PWE Research Seminar. Dr Serafini’s work in sustainable Human Resource Management explores leadership, workplace belonging and organisational trust, offering timely insights into how organisations build resilience and long-term legitimacy in complex environments. We are very grateful for the opportunity to host him and to share his research with our staff and students.
Session Outline
This session explores how Human Resource Management advances organisational sustainability through leadership influence, workplace belonging and trust-based relational systems. Drawing on evidence concerning managerial impact on engagement and emerging tensions associated with artificial intelligence, it shows how organisational dynamics shape performance, legitimacy and long-term resilience. The session will also present research in progress examining the breakdown of Common Good Human Resource Management under extreme institutional disruption. Based on an in-depth qualitative case of a multinational subsidiary operating in Ukraine during the first three months of the 2022 invasion, the study analyses how crisis unpreparedness, global–local leadership misalignment and competing stakeholder pressures redirected strategic priorities away from employee-centred commitments.
The seminar is open to all staff, postgraduate students and final-year undergraduates.
The seminar is open to all staff, postgraduate students and final-year undergraduates.
About the speaker
Dr Giovanni Oscar Serafini
Dr Giovanni Oscar Serafini is a senior academic at the York Europe Campus specialising in sustainable HRM, leadership and Common-Good Human Resource Management. His research examines how organisational systems shape trust, employee commitment and sustainability, including work on HRM under extreme institutional disruption during the early months of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. His scholarship connects ethical leadership, relational practice and organisational resilience.