Announcement of A New ARC Centre of Excellence, Centre for Population Ageing Research (CEPAR)
CEPAR, the Centre for Population Ageing Research, has been awarded $27.25 million dollars in national competitive research funding to...
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- Oct 9, 2016
Centre PhD Student Runner-Up in 3 Minute Thesis Competition
Georgia Hay, a PhD student in the Centre for Transformative Work Design supervised by Sharon Parker and Patrick Dunlop, wowed audiences...
- Sep 30, 2016
SIA Presentation: Those With Relevant Expertise Design More Enriched Work
Who designs enriched work? At the recent Safety Institute of Australia Convention in Sydney, Sharon Parker presented her and her...
- Sep 21, 2016
Where Does Work Design Come From?
Sharon Parker, Anja Van den Broeck, and David Holman are excited to announce that our new paper on the multi-level factors that can shape...
- Sep 13, 2016
Dr Jessie Koen: Flexible Contracts and Other Labor Market Vulnerabilities - What Can Employees Do?
Dr Jessie Koen, who has been visiting the Centre from the University of Amsterdam, presented her research on unemployment, insecurity,...
- Sep 6, 2016
Dr Stacey Parker: Getting through the Daily Grind
Dr Stacey Parker from the University of Queensland visited UWA Business School recently to present her research on strategies for...
- Aug 31, 2016
Dr Roy Sijbom: How Leaders Respond to Proactivity From Their Employees
Dr Sijbom (University of Amsterdam) presented his research on how leaders respond to proactivity. Using a novel simulation, Roy's...
- Aug 30, 2016
Does Being Proactive at Work Enhance or Impair Worker Well-Being?
Being proactive at work is mostly positive for well-being. In a symposium on proactivity in the workplace at the AOM conference,...
- Aug 24, 2016
The Future of Proactivity in Organisations: Academy of Management Conference
At AOM, one of the events involving our staff was a Professional Development Workshop on "The Future of Proactivity in Organizations",...
- Aug 19, 2016
Dr Anya Johnson: Work Redesign in a Hospital
The theme of this year's AOM Conference was 'making organisations meaningful'; a theme highly relevant to the Transformative Work Design...
- Aug 1, 2016
Breakfast by the Bay: Introducing the Centre for Transformative Work Design
Professor Sharon Parker, the Director of the Centre for Transformative Work Design, presented to an audience of over 150 guests at UWA's...
- Jul 13, 2016
Effects of Proactivity at Work: Conference in Hong Kong
On July 7, 8th, a small conference "The Consequences of Proactive Behaviors at Work: New Directions” was held at Hong Kong Polytechnic...
- Jun 30, 2016
Introducing the Work Design Growth Model
Most work design research has focused on how well-designed jobs promote health, performance, and motivation. But as argued in Parker...
- Jun 30, 2016
Work Design in Preventing Mental Ill-Health Amongst FIFO Workers
Last year, triggered by a spate of suicides, an inquiry was commissioned to understand the effect of FIFO work on mental health in the...
- Jun 1, 2016
Connecting With Young Workers
As part of our study on work design amongst young Western Australians, the Raine Work Design study, we offered participants a...
- May 31, 2016
Looking Back and Looking Forward
A paper entitled "Work design theory and research: Looking back over 100 years and looking forward to the future" is soon appearing in...
- May 1, 2016
Improving Surgical Team Effectiveness
As part of a training workshop for nurses, anethsitists, and surgeons on "non-technical skills" (such as communication), Joseph and...
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