In Human Factors AS we have extensive experience in working with academic institutions, researchers as well as students, in gathering data, writing papers and articles, in order to understand and develop the Diversity Icebreaker. More than 30 researchers in 20 countries have been involved. Books, papers and articles have come out.

 

Our extensive academic network is what we look upon as our R&D department. Most of the research is empirically oriented doing comparisons and analyses to other tools and assessments, like MBTI, personality, emotional intelligence, team-work, interpersonal interaction, conflict styles, cultural values, learning styles, decision styles etc. A type of research that is more difficult to execute, but very interesting, is on the classical seminar itself and the effect of the use of this and the language of Red, Blue and Green in the organizations. We search opportunities for such kind of research.

 

Any type of research that might be relevant for increased understanding and use, is welcomed. We normally support research material for free. Please contact bze@human-factors.no if you have any questions or ideas to discuss.

 

 

 

• 13th European Conference on Personality, Athens (Greece), July 2006. Eva Langvik: Personality traits and team roles: Introducing a Tricolor model of team roles and its relationship to the personality traits in the five factor model

• Academy of Management, Atlanta (USA), August 2006. Bjørn Z. Ekelund: The use of Diversity Icebreaker. Lecturing in international relations

• 8th Conference in Social Psychology, Trondheim (Norway), November 2006. Eva Langvik: Managing Diversity: How to heterogenize teams in order to create self- and team knowledge

• SIETAR: Society for International Education, Training and Research, London (UK), September 2006. Bjørn Z. Ekelund and Eva Langvik: Team Roles as Diversity Icebreaker

• Global Forum, IGB Consortium, Tokyo (Japan) February 2007: “Diversity Management in Multinational Companies”

• Academy of Management in Philadelphia (USA), August 2007. Bjørn Z. Ekelund, Miriam Nordgård and Eva Langvik: User experiences with Diversity Icebreaker

• Academy of International Business, Milan (Italy), July 2008. Bjørn Z. Ekelund, Rotem Shneor and Bettina Gehrke: Diversity Icebreaker in cross-cultural training

• Academy of Management, California (USA), August 2008. Bjørn Z. Ekelund and Martha L. Maznevski: Diversity Training: Are We on the Right Track?

• SIOP conference, New Orleans(USA), April, 2009. Teresa J. Rothausen-Vange and Bjørn Z. Ekelund: Comparison of Two Psychological Type Measures for Use in Management Education Settings (MBTI-DI)

• XI European Congress of Psychology, Oslo (Norway), July 2009: Symposium presentations by Eva Langvik, Linn Slettum Bjerke, Lene Rønning-Arnesen, Jan Viggo Iversen, Geir L. Auestad and Bjørn Z. Ekelund

• The Second York Associates – Dialogin, The international Academy, York (UK) September 2009: “Social Construction of Interpersonal Categories” by Bjørn Ekelund

• South-East European Regional Congress of Psychology, Sofia (Bulgaria), November 2009. Bjørn Z. Ekelund, Jan Viggo Iversen and Leah Davcheva. Diversity Icebreaker: Developing Shared Understanding of Cooperation

• 58th Annual conference of the Serbian Psychological Association, Zlator (Serbia), May 2010: ” The descriptive, functional and beautiful qualities of Diversity Icebreaker. Research challenges in three different perspectives” by Bjørn Ekelund