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Approximately 8 million Filipinos are considered overseas contractworkers, roughly 10% of the population.  Hailed as the country's bagong bayani, these OFWs are a tremendous boon to the economy.  However, working abroad  is tough for workers and their families.  In an effort to provide psychosocial support, the Ateneo Center for Organization Research and Development (Ateneo CORD and the Department of Psychology in partnership with the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science (DISCS) of the Ateneo De Manila University  put up a website that offers free online counseling to OFWs and their families.  OFWsand their family members who want to avail of their services can log onto http://OFWOnline.ateneo.edu

The Certificate Course in Organization Development is an eight-day course directed towards enabling HR professionals and individuals to understand the nature of organizations as developing systems and to hone skills to diagnose and identify appropriate interventions.

At the end of the program, participants are expected to:

• Develop an Organization Development Plan
• Develop a Change Plan

When: May 19-22, 25-28

Where:Ateneo CORD Training Center, 2/F Höffner Bldg., Social Development Complex, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Q.C.

Interested parties may call at 426 6065/426 6282 or email ateneocord@admu.edu.ph

The Ateneo Center for Organization Research and Development (Ateneo CORD), in fulfillment of its thrust to build knowledge in the Philippines, conducts researches to help HR practitioners, line managers, and organizations better manage Filipino workers and organizations. In line with this, Ateneo CORD is providing research grants to eligible individuals who will be involved in this collaboration.

The Ateneo CORD Research grants are open to graduate students, undergraduate students, researchers and faculty of any university. Financial support offered can be from Php 5,000 to  Php 30,000. Research must be completed in nine (9) months. The output can be a thesis, dissertation, journal or book article. It may even be featured in CORD’s Trendwatcher Series, Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Workplace Wisdom column or included in CORD’s upcoming books

Ateneo CORD has identified the following research topics and some possible researches as its priorities:


How to apply
To apply for a grant, the applicant should accomplish and submit a Project Proposal (maximum of 3,000 words) that includes the following:

Deadline for submission of research proposals is June 11, 2009.  A hard copy of the proposal must be submitted to Renee Ortega, Associate Director for Research, Ateneo CORD.

For inquiries and guidelines, please email ateneocord@admu.edu.ph.

The Ateneo de Manila Departmentof Psychology is pleased to announce that it’s latest offering  - an MA in IO psychology track in OrganizationDevelopment. The OD track is a non-thesis program aimed at developing thecompetencies required for the practice of organization development including:coaching, team development and designing and facilitating large scaleinterventions.  The OD track is thenewest addition to its current thesis and non-thesis track in Strategic HumanResource Management that is designed to develop strategic HR practitioners. Deadlinefor admission to the program is on May 8, 2009.

For more inquiries on admissionguidelines and procedures please visit the AdMU website www.admu.edu.ph or contact the GraduatePrograms office at 426-6001 loc. 5141-5142 or grad@admu.edu.ph. For inquirieson the program, email IO program director Dr. Regina Hechanova at rhechanova@ateneo.edu.

The Talent and Career Management Program is a four-day course designed for individuals who are responsible for the identification, assessment, and development of talents in their organization.

At the end of the program, participants will be able to:

• Craft their organization’s talent management philosophy & objectives
• Define competencies for a target function
• Identify a career path for a target function
• Develop an assessment matrix based on leadership competencies
• Construct a methodology matrix for technical and managerial development

When:April 21-24, 2009

Where:Ateneo CORD Training Center, 2/F Höffner Bldg., Social Development Complex, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Q.C.

Interested parties may call at 426 6065/426 6282 or email ateneocord@admu.edu.ph

The Training Assistant Development Program is a short course designed to equip the training assistant with skills in coordinating, preparing, and documenting workshops.

By the end of the program, you would be able to:

• Describe the training process and enumerate their roles/responsibilities as training assistants.
• Develop skills in creating marketing materials for workshops/programs.
• Demonstrate skills in process observation analysis.

When:March 30-31, 2009

Where:Ateneo CORD Training Center, 2/F Höffner Bldg., Social Development Complex, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Q.C.

Interested parties may call at 426 6065/426 6282 or email ateneocord@admu.edu.ph

This four day course is aimed at developing the practitioner's competencies in translating business strategies into organizational capabilities and ensuring these become sound HR practices

At the end of the program, participants will be able to:

1.     Assess the role of HR in your organization

2.     Identify areas in HR where they need to develop their competencies

 

When: February 17-20, 2009

Where: Ateneo CORD Training Center, 2/F Höffner Bldg., Social Development Complex, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Q.C.

Interested parties may call at 426 6065/426 6282 or email ateneocord@admu.edu.ph

Integrating Outdoor Experiential Learning in Leadership Development

What’s  in store for you?

Simulation of Outdoor Experience
Be part of how outdoor experiential learning can be incorporated into strategic programs and achieve significant results.

Adult Learning Methodologies
Review adult learning principle and have discussions on how these are applied to learning programs.

Learn from Best Practice
How Nestlé  Philippines maximizes the outdoor experiential learning and its impact on their leadership development program.

Additional reference: business.inquirer.net/money/features/view/20090201-186848/Lessons-for-employee-development

 

This four-day program is designed to develop the HR practitioner’s skills in identifying and defining competencies, and utilizing these as foundations for developing competency-based HR programs and systems.

At the end of the program, participants will be able to:

1.       Identify and define competencies

2.       Determine methods in assessing competencies

3.       Utilize competencies in selecting employees

4.       Explain the use of competencies in performance management

5.       Utilize competencies in developing employees

6.       Describe how competencies are used in compensation

7.   Identify your organization’s drivers and barriers to building a competency-based culture

 

When: February 9-12, 2009

Where: Ateneo CORD Training Center, 2/F Höffner Bldg., Social Development Complex, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Q.C.

Interested parties may call at 426 6065/426 6282 or email ateneocord@admu.edu.ph

Ateneo CORD in partnership with CCE (Center for Continuing Education) will offer a 2-day learning experience for dynamic people.  This program aims to equip people who are knee-deep in stress with the necessary tools to combat stress and even thrive under difficult situations.

 

The program will enable you to:

• Identify the sources of distress in one's  work  and  personal  lives
• Recognize the  ill-effects  of  distress  in  one's overall  well-being
• Demonstrate the use of mental, physical,  and emotional stress reduction  techniques 
• Formulate a personal stress reduction program for long-term peak performance under pressure

How do employees perceive retirement? What are the concerns and issues of retirees? How can organizations help employees prepare for retirement? Know the answers to these questions by attending Ateneo CORD's Trendwatcher Series entitled Preparing for Retirement. This learning session will be on December 5, 2008, 1:30-4:30pm at the Hampton Function Room, Astoria Plaza. For reservations and inquiries, please contact Ateneo CORD at 426-6001 local 5263 or ateneocord@admu.edu.ph. Limited slots available, reserve now!

Filipino women have steadily progressed upthe management hierarchy in recent years and have substantially advanced intomiddle management positions. Fifty eight percent of legislators, seniorofficials and managers in the country are women. Does this mean thatstereotyping and discrimination is not a problem for Filipino women in theworkplace? Unfortunately NOT. Intoday’s Philippine labor force, males continue to outnumber females 2:1 even ifthe population rates are almost the same for both genders. Income of females onthe average are only 60% of that of males. There are very few women CEOs and only 20% of Lower Houserepresentatives are women. With this facts, how can we then ensure a level playing field for men and women? To read more about this topic from the Philippine Daily Inquirer, click on this link: http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=20081026-168580

There are thousands of graduates every year looking for jobs, and yet a lot are rejected by companies not because there are no jobs available but because they don't come from a "prestigious university." Is there truth to the myth that graduates of Ateneo, UP and La Salle are preferred over other universities? To read more about discrimination based on alma mater from the Philippine Daily Inquirer, click on the link: http://business.inquirer.net/money/features/view/20081012-166060/Job-applicants-The-school-matters.

How does one become a transformational leader? The good news is that transformational leadership is less about personality and more about the behavior. To read the full article from the Philippine Daily Inquirer, click on the link: http://business.inquirer.net/money/features/view_article.php?article_id=163466

Accenture Philippines, a local arm of the global business process outsourcing (BPO) firm, has partnered with Ateneo CORD in the establishment of its newly launched HR Academy here in the Philippines.

The Accenture Philippines HR Academy aims to develop Filipino HR professionals that can compete with the global demands for human resource services.

Ateneo CORD, along with the People Management Assiciation of the Philippines (PMAP), designed and will deliver the courses to be taken by Accenture employees enrolled in the HR Academy. Courses under the Academy have been designed to fit the unique needs of the BPO industry and will combine classroom learning and practical application (on-the-job training).  

Links:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080930-163808/Accenture-makes-HR-training-school-in-RP
http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2008/10/06/INFO20081006137143.html
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/124065/Accenture-Ateneo-to-set-up-academy-on-human-resources

We often hear older people say “iba na ang mgakabataan ngayon” (the youth today are different). Whether that is said in admiration, awe, confusion or even disdain there is a perception that there isa growing cultural divide between young and old. To find out more about how to manage young Filipino workers, visit Ateneo CORD's column called Workplace Wisdom in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Click the link to access the article:  

http://business.inquirer.net/money/features/view/20080907-159237/Managing-young-Filipino-workers

Ateneo CORD is now located at 1/F Frank Lynch Hall. Social Development Complex, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City. It is in the same building as the Institute of Philippine Culture or IPC.

 

The old office at the 2/F Höffner Building, Social Development Complex now serves as its Training Center. It will be the venue of upcoming public programs unless otherwise announced.

 

CORD also has a new telefax number: 426-5931.

In the face of globalization, organization have increasingly harnessed technology as a tool to manage people. One manifestation of this is the emergence of virtual teams. To find out more about the experiences of virtual team managers in the Philippines and the strategies they employed in managing employees with little face-to-face instruction, visit Ateneo CORD's column called Workplace Wisdom in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Click the link to access the article:  http://business.inquirer.net/money/features/view/20080824-156589/Ways-to-manage-virtual-teams

The Ateneo CORD, in partnership with STORM Consulting, is conducting a cross-industry study aimed at analyzing key talent retention dimensions for one of the most in-demand employee groups today – IT professionals. This study aims to gather information to understand retention of key employee segments better. The study looks into the factors which makes these talents want to leave an organization and examine what will make them stay. Such information will be very vital to companies especially if they want to keep their talents as well as ensure that they are satisfied with their job and their organization. For more information regarding the study, please visit TRI’s website at http://talentretentionindex.com. You may also contact Ms. Minette Dotollo (mdotollo@ateneo.edu) or Ms. Renee Ortega (rortega@ateneo.edu) at 426-5931.

As part of the Ateneo CORD’s thrust to build knowledge inpeople and organization, Ateneo CORD re-established a partnership with the Philippine Daily Inquirer through a bi-monthly column in the Business Monday section called Workplace Wisdom. This column features new researches on peopleand organization management. The first article of the column, entitled Ways to Help Retain Employees by Rachel Carbonell, was launched on July 28, 2008. Visit www.inquirer.net to read the article.

Ateneo CORD and the Ateneo School of Government Youth Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship Program have enetered into a partnership to conduct research on successful social entrepreneurs.  By documenting their creation, evolution, challenges and successes, the project hopes to help other social entrepreneurs in their efforts at finding innovative solutions to social problems.

Ateneo CORD, in partnership with the Ateneo Java Wireless Competency Center (AJWCC), is proud to present the Ateneo CORD E-Learning Series (ACES)!

In line with our mission to provide learning and development opportunities closer to people and organizations, we offer ACES as an alternative venue for individuals who cannot afford to leave work to attend face-to-face trainings for a certain period of time.

ACES provides online courses that are accessible to anyone with Internet access. Adhering to the principles of adult learning, we have tailored our courses to cater to those who want to develop and enhance their competencies. The learning environment of the online classes allows participants to collaborate with experts and fellow participants from all over the country via online chat, forums and activities. In addition, our courses have exciting, dynamic features such as podcasts, simulations, animation, online exams and much more!

To know more about ACES and our programs, please log on to http://aces.ateneo.edu.

Can our government really transform? Ateneo CORD was recently tapped by the Philippine Australia Human Resource Development Fund to document experiences of successful transformation in local government units (LGU) and government organizations (GO). Through interviews with selected LGUs and GO's, the research hopes to higlight best practices, experiences and barriers they faced in their journey of change.

Ateneo CORD recently received a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada to tackle the issue of Internet Addiction. As part of the grant, CORD will be hosting researchers from various countries in Asia in a workshop to share their findings and identify future directions to address the issue of internet addiction.

The Ateneo Center for Organization Research and Development (Ateneo CORD), in fulfillment of its thrust to build knowledge in the Philippines, is providing research grants to eligible individuals who will be involved in this collaboration. All graduate students, senior undergraduate students, researchers, and faculty members of any university are eligible to apply for the Ateneo CORD Research Grants. Primary beneficiaries will be Psychology students completing their thesis or dissertations. Successful applicants will be given anywhere from P5,000 to P50,000 as support depending on the evaluation of the proposal. For more details please contact Associate Director for Research Ms. Renee Ortega at rortega@ateneo.edu.

Ateneo CORD welcomes a new Executive Director in the person of Ma. Regina Hechanova. Gina is a faculty member of the Ateneo Department of Psychology and has been with CORD for the past 7 years as its Training Director, Director for Consulting, Research Director and most recently, its Deputy Executuve Director. She replaces Dr. Edna "Bopeep" Franco who will serve as the Chair of the Psychology Department of Ateneo in June 2008.