Five minutes with…Ashlea Troth

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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Associate Professor Ashlea Troth has always been interested in people. She likes to know what makes them tick!! We spend a lot of time in the workplace, she says, and how one thinks and feels at, and about work, has a huge impact. So we spent five minutes with Ashlea to learn a little more […]

Five minutes with…Keith Townsend

Business and government
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An undergraduate degree focusing on industrial relations (IR), public policy and politics, coupled with previous management and [IR] practitioner experience combined to reveal for Associate Professor Keith Townsend, just how complicated working life can be. Spending his life talking to others about their workplace complications has set him on a path; and the destination is […]

‘Wanna play on my team?’: Interdisciplinary research success recognised

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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Front line managers (FLMs). They’re the first tier of person in a workplace with supervisory responsibilities (and the ones who usually show up when you want to “…speak to the manager please”!). A team of researchers from the Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources and the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW), were […]

The role of leadership in building innovation and productivity

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing(WOW) and Griffith Business School (GBS) researchers have been awarded funding by the Centre for Workplace Leadership(CWL)–a Federal government initiative based at the University of Melbourne–dedicated to increasing workplace productivity by assessing and building the capacity of small and medium enterprise through frontline leadership, performance and job quality. Associate Professors […]

Researchers go to work on anger management

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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The end of the calendar year invariably brings thoughts of new starts, new challenges and new hope. A change in employment is often top of the wish list, especially when someone has had a less than pleasant 12 months at work. A new study by researchers at Griffith University’s Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing […]