Tagged with wellbeing

Five minutes with….Rebecca Loudoun

Business and government
Published AuthorCentre Manager
The health of a workplace is considered through many a lens: its operations, procedures, infrastructure, equipment and people (to name a few). In the broader sense, Dr Rebecca Loudoun’s research looks at how these aspects are managed. We spent five minutes with Rebecca to learn a little more… In what area/s does your current research […]

Five minutes with…Zhou Jiang

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
Published AuthorCentre Manager
Dr Zhou Jiang joined the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing in early 2016. Although his interests are broad, and span continents(!), Zhou’s research primarily considers the areas of career development, organisational behaviour, and wellbeing. We spent five minutes with him to learn a little more… In what area/s does your current research interests lie? […]

Managing our ‘human resources’ at work: Where’s the wellbeing?

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
Published AuthorCentre Manager
The obsession of human resource management (HRM) research to link with performance over the last thirty years, is yet to prove that such an association makes a big influence. HRM strategies that ask what an organisation can get out of workers is also stalling, and is more likely to backfire in the contemporary (Western) employment […]

Australia’s future workforce: Young workers as industrial citizens

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
Published AuthorCentre Manager
The Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing will partner with the Griffith Business School’s Alumni portfolio next month (21 August), as an expert panel of industrial relations (IR) and human resource (HR) researchers and practitioners discuss over breakfast the make-up of Australia’s future workforce and its wellbeing. Contributing to the panel is WOW’s Associate Professor […]

Broadening the international base of workplace research

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
Published AuthorCentre Manager
TheCentre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW) has finalised an agreement with the University of Sheffield as both seek to advance research in the fields of employment relations and organisational behaviour. Facilitated by WOW Director, Professor Adrian Wilkinson, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will afford both institutions the opportunity to exchange students, academic members of […]