Tagged with workplace context

How does a job become gendered? And what are the fundamental differences created by workers, organisations, governments and various other stakeholders when that happens? The Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing’s Adjunct Associate Professor Yvonne Due Billing (University of Copenhagen) posed these questions, and others, on gendered expectations in the workplace, and in particular, for […]

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 […]

Drawn from a series of studies conducted in organisations as diverse as military institutions, amateur and professional baseball clubs, universities, banks and groceries stores in the US, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW) guest, Professor Cheri Ostroff (University of South Australia) highlighted the important role of context in designing and understanding workplace research in […]