Organisational psychology

Organisational & Occupational Health Improvement (OOHI)

Our research focuses on how employees can utilize resources to enhance their health, well-being, safety, and work performance. We investigate how organizations and managers can effectively support employees and improve their well-being and safety. Our group aims to identify individual, team, and organizational factors that can prevent and mitigate the negative consequences of workplace stressors, such as job insecurity.

Additionally, we examine organizational interventions and demonstrate how evidence-based interventions can effectively improve both employee and organizational outcomes.

Dynamics of Performance Management (DPM)

Our research investigates the dynamics of performance management in the workplace, focusing on how leaders and employees can collaborate effectively to achieve better performance and well-being outcomes. Our group aims to identify practices that enhance long-term effectiveness and explore the critical interpersonal processes in performance management. Key topics include performance feedback and leadership mindsets and behaviours.

When doing so, we integrate contemporary elements to understand performance management in the evolving workplace. This includes exploring how emerging work design features (e.g., Generative AI technologies, telecommuting) shape performance management practices and influence their effectiveness.

Within these two broad research areas, our doctoral students explore a range of topics, including:
• how employees develop and maintain friendships with their workmates;
• how flexible work arrangements interface with employee family life;
• how employees survive and thrive in the gig economy;
• how supervisor-employee interactions impact feedback effectiveness; and
• how people seek meaningfulness in work in the age of AI.