Associate Professor Ian Glendon

B Arts (Honours), M Business Administration, PhD

Associate Professor, School of Psychology

Contact details for A/Prof Ian Glendon

Research expertise

• Organisational Psychology – primary area
• Traffic/Transportation Psychology – primary area
• Personality and Cognition – secondary areas
• Specific research areas – safety and risk management, particularly safety and risk culture/climate in high hazard sector organisations (e.g., rail transport, aviation, healthcare) to enhance understanding and assist organisations to better manage risk
• I have a long-standing interest in risk cognition – including risk perception and risk-taking behaviour, as well as human error and reliability; my research in this area has been directed at better understanding human factors aspects of error and organisational failures that can lead to undesired outcomes
• My research into driving behaviour includes studying individual differences and driving violations; this research has indicated a high prevalence of driving violations on Australian motorways and has received considerable media coverage
• With colleagues in other universities, I study effects of cognitive biases on investment behaviour by professional, retail and naïve investors, which improves understanding of how psychological biases can affect decision-making
• With colleagues from other Griffith schools, I study the relationship between consumer emotions and company crises; this research will help organisations to determine how to best to manage crises
• A member of the Behavioural Basis of Health Program within the Griffith Institute of Health and Medical Research, I am affiliated to the applied social/organisational research unit
• I am also a member of Griffith’s Work and Organisational Wellbeing Research Centre and Griffith University Climate Response Program – a multidisciplinary research team seeking novel solutions to address critical issues associated with adaptation to climate change

Current teaching areas

• Convened the Master of Organisational Psychology program since its inception in 1997 at the Gold Coast Campus; while all organisational masters courses have been taught at the Mount Gravatt Campus since 2004, I can advise and help students who are seeking masters projects or placements in the Gold Coast region.
• At undergraduate level I teach psychology in organisations, personality and individual differences, and qualitative research methods; at honours level I teach advanced organisational psychology and aspects of professional practice.
• Supervise honours students in a variety of projects in my research areas.

Publications

• Glendon, A. I., Thompson, B. M., and Myors, B. (Eds.) (2007). Advances in organisational psychology. Brisbane: Australian Academic Press.
• Glendon, A. I. (2007). Driving violations observed: An Australian study. Ergonomics, 50, 1159-1182.
• Glendon, A. I., Clarke, S. G., and McKenna, E. F. (2006). Human safety and risk management (2nd edn.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press/Taylor and Francis.
• Glendon, A. I. (2006). Brain development during adolescence: Some implications for risk-taking and injury liability. Journal of Occupational Health and Safety – Australia and New Zealand, 22, 137-150.
• Glendon, A. I. (2006). Safety culture. In W. Karwoski (Ed.), International encyclopedia of ergonomics and human factors (2nd edn., pp. 2293-2300). London: CRC Press/Taylor and Francis.