3 mistakes managers make when designing jobs
A key role of management is to design jobs that not only meet the organisation’s goals, but also support the well-being of employees....
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- Jun 20
Work Design for Success: Innovative Research and Leading-Edge Practice
The 2024 Centre for Transformative Work Design Conference Perth, Western Australia | 12-14 February 2024 The 3-day inaugural Centre for...
- Jun 16
SMART Design for Care State of Affairs Breakfast 2
Learn what’s driving the high rates of burnout and mental ill-health in the Healthcare & Social Assistance Industry Do you know the top...
- Mar 1
A PhD with a difference: Dr Cheryl Yam's journey from research to making real world impact
Upon completing her Masters degree in Industrial and Organisational (IO) Pyschology, Cheryl found herself at crossroads: plunge deeper...
- Nov 1, 2022
Meet our visitor from Italy, Michela Carraro
Our Centre had the pleasure of hosting Michela Carraro, a PhD candidate in organizational behavior from the University of Padova in...
- Aug 8, 2022
Meet Lesley Brown, our placement student
In March this year, we welcomed our Masters placement student Lesley to the centre. From left to right: Associate Professor Patrick...
- Jun 17, 2022
Meet our collaborator from CEPAR's UNSW team, Dr Sophie Yan
Meet Dr Sophie Yan! Visiting us from Sydney, Sophie is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing...
- May 18, 2022
New PhD scholarship on future work design in rare and undiagnosed diseases
Are you interested in researching transformative work design as a way to address challenges facing the child health care system? We are...
- May 10, 2022
Q&A with Visiting Scholarship recipient Lioba Gierke
Meet Lioba, our most recent international visitor at the centre. Lioba is a PhD student at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management...
- May 6, 2022
New landmark study for stronger action to improve work in WA mining
The Centre for Transformative Work Design has been awarded funding for a landmark study into mental health and workplace culture across...
- Feb 28, 2022
Reducing demands or optimising demands? Effects of cognitive appraisal and autonomy on job crafting
Are you facing increasing job demands at work? You can engage in two job crafting strategies to make changes in your job demands:...
- Feb 16, 2022
CEPAR 'Mature Workers in Organisations' Small Grant Award Scheme
The ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) at Curtin University is pleased to announce the launch of our CEPAR...
- Jan 21, 2022
Funding boost to tackle work-related psychological hazards for aged care workers
We are thrilled to announce that the Centre for Transformative Work Design (CTWD) has been awarded $373,762 in funding from the Safe Work...
- Oct 29, 2021
Preventing psychological injury in the care sector - SMART Design for Care virtual launch
How can we leverage work design as an intervention to reduce/prevent psychological injury in the NSW Healthcare & Social Assistance...
- Oct 21, 2021
Changes in work during COVID-19 (and beyond) - Talk by Sharon Parker
Sharon Parker gave a talk on how work changed when people worked at home during COVID and how it might change in the future.
- Mar 30, 2021
Our first visitors for 2021! Meet Associate Professors Helena Nguyen and Anya Johnson
We were delighted to have visitors again, for the first time since the pandemic! Joining us from the University of Sydney are A/Prof...
- Mar 15, 2021
How to capture team behaviours ‘in action’ - Part 5
By Cecilia Runneboom IIs there anything more fascinating than human behaviour? When you look into people’s (non-) verbal communication,...
- Mar 8, 2021
Improving your team meetings with a CAT - Part 4
By Dr Georgia Hay It’s 9:01am and the team meeting has officially started – but a number of people are still talking about what they did...
- Feb 22, 2021
Designing SMART teamwork: How work design can boost performance in virtual teams
Are you still stuck in lockdown, working from home or coordinating most of your work "virtually" with other team members and wondered...
- Jan 7, 2021
When do job crafting interventions work?
New CTWD research on job crafting found job crafting interventions were effective in promoting job crafting behaviours. Job crafting...
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