Investigating the implicit dimensions of building and destroying trust in business relationships

When?

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 5pm to 6pm

Where?

75MS02, Management Building

Open to:

Public, Staff, Students

Speaker:

Professor Christoph Clases

Admission information:

If you would like to attend please RSVP to Natalie Berge at fbelevents@surrey.ac.uk.

This presentation starts with a reflection on three different notions of “the implicit”. Drawing on Personal Construct Theory, ‘Repertory Grids‘ will then be discussed as a powerful methodological approach to analysing the implicit dimensions of human reality construction. Following on from there, the analytical potential of this methodology will be exemplified in the context of building and destroying trust in business relationships. Empirical research will be presented to illustrate the argument of this paper.

Biography

Professor Christoph Clases is an organizational psychologist at the University of Applied Sciences in Olten (Switzerland). He received his PhD from the Free University Berlin and has taught at various Swiss, German and Spanish universities. Christoph has also been a partner of AOC consultancy (Zurich) since 2009.