The future of management – how managers are managed?

Adrian Wilkinson
Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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Little research exists about how managers themselves are managed despite significant and ongoing changein the context of their work in recent years. Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing members, Adrian Wilkinson and Keith Townsend (with Gabriele Suder, University of Melbourne) have sought to fill this gap with their newly edited book —Handbook of Research on […]

Vietnamese workers have their say: linking job autonomy, motivation and performance

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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How does a worker’s autonomy — that is, the degree to which they can schedule their tasks and the processes they employ to carry them out — link with their performance on the job? Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW) Higher Degree Research (HDR) student member, Thao Nguyen has spent the past three years […]

Workplace leaders: lose gender, target behaviour

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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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 […]

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

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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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 […]

Five minutes with…Arthur Poropat

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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Dr Arthur Poropat conducts research on personality, the prediction of academic performance, organisational citizenship behaviour, and the management practices that improve staff performance. We spent five minutes with Arthur to learn a little more about his work… In what area/s does your current research interests lie? Recently, I have published several articles on the value […]