Forum to explore workplace trust

Trust will be the topic of a Caltech Management Association leadership forum on Thursday, February 3, with Amy -Lyman, cofounder and president of the Great Place to Work Institute. The free event is open to Caltech and JPL community members and will take place from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Beckman Auditorium.

In “The Importance of Workplace Trust,” Lyman will describe her company’s Trust Index, which helps measure how employees feel about their organization’s credibility, fairness, and internal relationships, and will discuss the factors that create a workplace where employees “trust the people they work for, have pride in what they do, and enjoy the people they work with.” This event may be especially beneficial for supervisors and managers.

For more than 20 years, the Great Place to Work Institute has been learning what makes an excellent workplace, researching and consulting with both elite corporations and nonprofits such as Harvard and Stanford. The institute publishes an annual list in Fortune magazine of the 100 best employers.
Lyman received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where she began her consulting work as a research fellow at the Wharton Center fo r Applied Research. The author of numerous articles on business management issues, she speaks regularly at management development workshops and conferences.

For more information, e-mail cma.announce@jpl.nasa.gov or call Dlorah Gonzales, (626) 395-8661. Caltech Business and Finance and JPL Human Resources are cosponsors of the event.

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