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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 30, 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 21, 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 13, 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...
Sep 6, 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 31, 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 30, 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 24, 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 19, 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...
Aug 1, 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...
Jul 13, 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 30, 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...
Jun 1, 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 31, 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...
May 1, 2016
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