GROPCA: Organization, Person and Change Research Group
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Cross-cutting programs are developed aimed at improving and developing organizations, and the work and people management in organizations. The group conducts research on the quality of life and well-being of people in organizations, the promotion of health in work environments and the improvement and transformations of organizations in present and future scenarios, addressing VUCA settings.
It pursues four lines of research: ethics and people management, teambuilding, teamwork and coaching), occupational health and healthy organizations, organizational development (leadership of complexity in organizations and development of collective intelligence in organizations).
Carlos Antonio Cendrós Cámara
Oriol Giménez Gómez
Oriol Jiménez Rovira
Oriol Lugo Real
Ignacio Maria Pintado Lopera
Luca Rozzi
Francesc Salvador Beltran
Gerard Segarra Gutiérrez
Group work areas
- Ethics and People Management. Investigates the extent to which ethics are applied in organizations, as well as the ethics of managing organizations and companies.
- Teambuilding: Teambuilding and Teamwork, Coaching and Teams.
- Occupational Health, Healthy Organizations. Promotes the health and well-being of persons in relation to employment and organizational contexts. Promotes projects related to the care and promotion of occupational health, work-related stress management, engagement, full engagement and the prevention of occupational diseases, such as burnout, violence in organizations, etc.
- Organizational development: Leadership of complexity in organizations and development of collective intelligence in organizations. Aims to design new leadership styles in organizations, ones that are better suited to complex and uncertain environments, both in terms of systems and methods, and the mental models and beliefs associated with these. Methods for promoting collective intelligence as a decision-making system are considered to be of special interest, and especially useful in complex environments.
Research projects
- Collaboration, innovation and creativity - means to RETAIN teachers in schools (2013-2015). Funding entity: European Union.
- Online social networks in work and recreational contexts: self-presentation, gender and selection (RedSel) (2017-2019). Funding entity: Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (MICO). IP: Ursula Oberst, Xavier Carbonell.
Group publications
Amaya, N., Rovira, M.D., Del Cerro, S., Grillo, M., Nomen, R. i Sempere, J. (2019). Distributed Safety Management as a tool for creating a safety culture in university students and future professionals. Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 57 (January), 114-119. ISSN: 0950-4230.
Del Cerro, S., Rodríguez, C., Vidal, S., Escabrós, M. and Oberst, U. (2017). Interpersonal perception of LinkedIn profiles and employability. Aloma. Revista de Psicologia i Ciències de l’Educació, 35, 13-22.
Ramírez, I., Del Cerro, S. i Fornells, A. (2017). The role of work motivation based on values in employee’s retention in the 21st century. Management studies, 35, 13-22. ISNN 1138-3194.
Chaves, A., Del Cerro, S. and Moreno Pérez, C.M. (2017). Humanistic organizations and leadership. Revista de Análisis Transsaccional, 3, 15-29. ISSN: 2255-0623.
Del Cerro, S., Chaves, A., Ros, E., Martí, M., Soler, G., Moreno, C.M., Cifre, I., Noguera, M., Lugo, O., Isanta, C., Pintado, I. and Monzonis, R. (2016). La inteligencia colectiva en la productividad grupal: Una prueba piloto. Aloma. Revista de Psicologia i Ciències de l’Educació, 34(2), 67-75.
Moreno, C.M. (2014). Bajando de las nubes. Educaweb. Monographic. Digital ID: 1578-5793.
Services offered by the group
- Consultancy
- Training courses
- PhD thesis supervision
