Focusing on issues affecting the psychological and physical wellbeing of employees at work
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.
Our research tackles these issues and leads the way in assessing employee voice, emotions at work, health and safety, psychosocial issues, and wellbeing at work.
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Areas of research
Health and safety
- 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
Emotion at work
- Toxic emotions at work
- Emotions and workplace deviance
- Leadership and emotions
- Emotions and performance
- Emotional intelligence
- Emotional labour
- Resilience at work
- Role of emotions in organisations
- Workplace emotions
- Emotional regulation at multi-levels
- Emotions in teams
- Emotions and relationships
- Emotions and conflict resolution
- Stress and emotion
Employee Voice
- Employee involvement and participation
- Employee representation and voice
- Enterprise bargaining
- Management of union relations and partnerships
- Whistleblowing at work
Members undertaking research in this area
Wellbeing at Work
Professor Paula Brough explains how employee wellbeing benefits the employment relationship.
Emotion at Work
Professor Peter Jordan explains how understanding Emotion in the workplace helps organisations reach their goals.
Voice at Work
Professor Adrian Wilkinson explains what Employee Voice is and it's important role in the employment relationship.
Recent projects
- Research to Support Workers' Psychological Responses to Injury and Successful Return to Work
- A Report on the Triggers, Facilitators, and Barriers to Implementing Mental Health Initiatives in Australian BusinessesAI Group
- The Australian Building and Construction Industry Blueprint for better Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
- Supporting student-mothers: a work-life program
Contact details
- Phone
- (07) 3735 3714
- wow@griffith.edu.au
- Address
- Room 1.17, Business 3 Building (N63)
- Griffith University
- 170 Kessels Road
- Nathan QLD 4111
- Office hours
- 9.00 am – 5.00 pm
- Monday – Friday