Collaborative Interactive Action Research

For the first time in Greece, Kleemann Hellas implements the methodology “Collaborative Interactive Action Research” (CIAR), which refers to labour relations.

CIAR aims at promoting changes at working places, dealing with matters of sex equality and the reconciliation between working and family life. This method has the characteristic of the substantial co-operation between researchers, employees and the management for the benefit of employees and the companies-organizations.

Within this framework, the experience from the implementation of this methodology will be presented in a scientific symposium with the theme: «Working and Family Life: Friends or Foes: Research to Practice». The symposium is co-organized by the Economics Department and the Interdepartmental Undergraduate Program of Gender and Equality Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. This event aims at presenting the CIAR methodology and cases of its implementation at corporations abroad. A further aim will be to develop a corresponding consideration and prolific dialogue, since these issues, are important for modern societies, enterprises and organizations.

Distinguished scientists from abroad who have developed the CIAR methodology and will participate in the event, will be the following:

• Lotte Bailyn, Professor of Management, Co-Director of MIT Workplace Centre, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, USA.
• Rhona Rapoport, PhD, Former Director of the Institute of Family and Environmental Research, Consultant, London, UK
• Susan Lewis, Professor of Organisational and Work-Life Psychology, Middlesex University, London, UK.

Furthermore, representatives of the research community CIAR will participate in. Mrs Eleonora Karassavidou, Professor of A.U.TH will be the co-ordinator.

The event will be held on Thursday 10 of May, 2007 at 9:30, at the Ceremony Hall of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Entry is free for the public.