Overview
Globalisation of organisations and increasing pressures for greater worker productivity have led to more casual, part-time and contingent work arrangements, reduced job quality and job insecurity; which can result in decreased productivity, stress and burnout. Within such a context, organisations are increasingly focusing on policies and practices to improve workplace wellbeing. Such initiatives focus on a range of issues affecting workers and their psychological and physical health and wellbeing at work.
Research areas
- Adolescents and work health and safety
- Chronic health diseases of workers
- Employee participation and shift roster scheduling
- Employee wellbeing
- Identity at work
- Interpersonal communication
- Learning and training processes
- Organisational psychology
- Occupational stress, bullying and coping
- Occupational values
- Organisational behaviour
- Personality
- Psychological health of high-risk workers (such as emergency service workers, correctional workers)
- Resilience at work
- Risk cognition
- Safety and risk management
- Work intensification and working time
- Working time/ work-life balance
- Work intensification and labour adjustment
Wellbeing at Work
Professor Paula Brough explains how employee wellbeing benefits the employment relationship.
Members undertaking research in this area
- Professor David Peetz
- Dr Mary Rogers
- Professor Keith Townsend
- Professor Ashlea Troth
- Professor Adrian Wilkinson
- Dr Darren Wishart
- Dr Matt Xerri
- Professor Catherine Cassell (Adjunct)
RECENT PROJECTS
- Advancing Occupational Stress Research: A Comprehensive Trial of the Health Workplaces Program
- A Report on the Triggers, Facilitators, and Barriers to Implementing Mental Health Initiatives in Australian Businesses with AI Group
- Behavioural Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in the Queensland Construction Industry
- Corporate Ownership and Global Wellbeing: Some Implications for Sustainability
- Employee–Employer Relations and Workplace Challenges in the US, Australia and UK
- Employee Voice in Australia: the Impact of Employee Participation Arrangements and Organisational Performance and Employee Wellbeing
- Engaging Teachers Across the Career Span: Improving the Retention and Engagement of Teachers through Mentoring in Schools
- Improving People Management Systems in Emergency Services
- SmartMinds: Safety issues in recruitment
- The Relationship Between Working Arrangements and Wellbeing in Regional Coal–Mining Communities
- ‘Who Wants to be a Teacher?’ Supporting the Transition, Wellbeing and Retention of New Teachers
Recent research outputs
- Brough, P., & Boase, A. 2019, 'Occupational stress management in the legal profession: Development, validation, and assessment of a stress-management instrument', Australian Journal of Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/ajpy.12244.
- Chu, M. L., Creed, P. A., & Conlon, E. G. 2019, 'Work–study boundary congruence, contextual supports, and proactivity in university students who work: A moderated-mediation model', Journal of Career Development, DOI: 10.1177/0894845319830253.
- Gifkins, J., Johnston, A., & Loudoun, R. 2018,'The impact of shift work on eating patterns and self-care strategies utilised by experienced and inexperienced nurses', The Journal of Biological and Medical Rythm Research, 35(6), pp. 811-820.
- Kellner, A., Townsend, K., Loudoun, R. and Wilkinson, A. 2019, 'Barriers to frontline manager support for high-trauma workers', Personnel Review, 48(6), pp. 1394-1409.
- Raper, M., Brough, P., & Biggs, A. 2019, 'Evidence for the impact of organisational resources versus job characteristics in assessments of occupational stress over time', Applied Psychology, Accepted Author Manuscript, DOI:10.1111/apps.12201.
- Rogers, M., & Glendon A.I. 2018, ‘Development and initial validation of the five-factor model adolescent personality questionnaire (FFM-APQ)’, Journal of Personality Assessment, 100(3), pp. 292-304.
- Sheppard, S., Hood, M., & Creed, P. A. 2019, 'An identity control theory approach to managing career identity in emerging adults', Emerging Adulthood, DOI: 10.1177/2167696819830484.
- Somoray, K., Newton, C., Lewis., & Wishart, D. 2019, 'Development of proactive safety behaviour scale within the work driving context', DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-94589-7_46.
- Thurston, E., & Glendon, A. I. 2018, Association of risk exposure, organizational identification, and empowerment, with safety participation, intention to quit, and absenteeism', Safety Science, 105, pp. 212-221.
- Troth, A., & Guest, D. 2019, 'The case for psychology in human resource management research', Human Resource Management Journal, DOI: 10.1111/1748‐8583.12237.
- Wedagama, P., & Wishart, D. 2018, 'The relationship between self-reported traffic crashes and driver behavior in the road transportation of goods and freight in Bali', International Journal of Technology, 9, DOI: 10.14716/ijtech.v9i3.960.
- Werth S., Peetz D., & Broadbent K. 2018, 'Issues of power and disclosure for women with chronic illness in their places of work,' in: Werth S., & Brownlow C. (eds) Work and Identity, Palgrave Explorations in Workplace Stigma, Palgrave Macmillan.
- Wilkinson, A., Barry, M., Gomez, R., & Kaufman, B. 2018, 'Taking the pulse at work: An employment relations scorecard for Australia', Journal of Industrual Relations, 60(2), pp.145-175.
- Xerri, M., Brunetto, Y., & Farr‐Wharton, B. 2019, 'Support for aged care workers and quality care in Australia: A case of contract failure?', Australian Journal of Public Admininstration, 78, pp. 546-561.
A comprehensive list of outputs can be found at our member’s Griffith Experts links above.