Fields of Research

Organisational behaviour
Human resources management
Mental health services
Industrial and organisational psychology (incl. human factors)
Health psychology
Organisation and management theory
Health promotion
Occupational and workplace health and safety
Health services and systems
Occupational epidemiology
Higher education
Clinical psychology
Testing, assessment and psychometrics
Business information management (incl. records, knowledge and intelligence)
Health economics
Small business organisation and management
Forensic epidemiology
Aged health care
Social determinants of health
Applied ethics
Education policy
Workplace wellbeing and quality of working life
Other education
Organisational planning and management
Innovation management
Social policy
Educational psychology
Community child health
Commercial services
Injury prevention
Psychology of ageing
Social psychology
Preventative health care
Gender studies
Health and community services
Business and labour history
Implementation science and evaluation
Behavioural neuroscience
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander public health and wellbeing
Public health
Maritime transportation and freight services
Public administration
Corporate governance
Child and adolescent development
Health informatics and information systems
Primary health care
Human information interaction and retrieval
Epidemiology
Digital health
Public policy
Social change
Business systems in context

Research Objectives

Management
Mental health
Occupational health
Expanding knowledge in commerce, management, tourism and services
Expanding knowledge in psychology
Behaviour and health
Work and labour market
Employment patterns and change
Evaluation of health and support services
Public health (excl. specific population health)
Expanding knowledge in human society
Mental health services
Provision of health and support services
Workplace and organisational ethics (excl. business ethics)
Business ethics
Pedagogy
Pacific Peoples community services
Injury prevention and control
Health status (incl. wellbeing)
Evaluation of health outcomes
Productivity (excl. public sector)
Gender aspects in education
Health policy evaluation
Management, resources and leadership
Nursing
Clinical health
Expanding knowledge in the health sciences
Diagnosis of human diseases and conditions
Expanding knowledge in built environment and design
Other health
Workplace safety
Health related to ageing
Health education and promotion
Management and productivity
Social structure and health
Coastal sea freight transport
Rural and remote area health
Prevention of human diseases and conditions
Public sector productivity
Public services policy advice and analysis
Disease distribution and transmission (incl. surveillance and response)
Adolescent health
Work and family responsibilities
Specific population health (excl. Indigenous health)

Career Best Publications

Advancing conceptualization and measurement of Psychological Capital as a collective construct; Human Relations
Building on the positives: a psychometric review and critical analysis of the construct of Psychological Capital; Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
Individual and contextual correlates of managers' attitudes towards depressed employees; Human Resource Management
Managing employees with mental health issues: Identification of conceptual and procedural knowledge for development within management education curricula; Academy of Management Learning and Education
Meta-analysis of the effects of health promotion intervention in the workplace on depression and anxiety symptoms; Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health
Psychological ownership: a review and research agenda; Journal of Organizational Behavior: The IRIOP Annual Review Issue
The role of psychological climate in facilitating employee adjustment during organizational change; European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
The work-family interface: a retrospective look at 20 years of research in JOHP; Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
What matters for working fathers? Job characteristics, work-family conflict and enrichment, and fathers' postpartum mental health in an Australian cohort; Social Science & Medicine
Workplace mental health: developing an integrated intervention approach; BMC psychiatry

Research Publications

Journal of Management Education Special Issue: “Mental Health and Psychological Well-Being Among Management Students and Educators”; Journal of Management Education
A cluster RCT to improve workplace mental health in a policing context: Findings of a mixed methods implementation evaluation; American Journal of Industrial Medicine
A cross-level model of team-level psychological capital (PsyCap) and individual- and team-level outcomes; Journal of Management & Organization
A Measure of Occupational Communion to Inform the Design and Evaluation of Dementia Care Workforce Development Interventions; 2015 IPA International Congress – Berlin
A multilevel intervention model for promoting work-family enrichment during early parenting; Flourishing in life, work, and careers
A randomized controlled trial of the effects of mindfulness practice on doctoral candidate psychological status; Journal of American College Health
A systematic review and meta-analysis of workplace mindfulness training randomized controlled trials; Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
A taxonomy of occupational and organisational stressors and protectors of mental health reported by veterinary professionals in Australasia; Australian Veterinary Journal
Academic parenting: work-family conflict and strategies across child age, disciplines and career level; Studies in Higher Education
Academic Service Climate as a Source of Competitive Advantage: Leverage for University Administrators; Education Research and Perspectives
Advancing conceptualization and measurement of Psychological Capital as a collective construct; Human Relations
Aged care nurses’ job control influence satisfaction and mental health; Journal of Nursing Management
An eye on your work: how empowerment affects the relationship between electronic surveillance and counterproductive work behaviours; International Journal of Human Resource Management
An integrated approach to workplace mental health
An integrated approach to workplace mental health: A scoping review of instruments that can assist organizations with implementation; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
An integrated model of justice and ethical climates and the influence of cultural diversity; Management and Organization Review
An integrated workplace mental health Intervention in a policing context: protocol for a cluster randomised control trial; BMC Psychiatry
An investigation into factors associated with managers' attitudes to mental health promotion in the workplace; 1st Asia pacific Congress on Workplace and Organisational Psychology
Applying a work design model to employee outcomes for aged care nurses; ANZAM: Managing for Volatility and Instability
Applying an integrated approach to workplace mental health in SMEs: a case of the “too hard basket” or picking some easy wins?; Organizational Interventions for Health and Well-being: A Handbook for Evidence-Based Practice
Barriers to mental health help-seeking in veterinary professionals working in Australia and New Zealand: A preliminary cross-sectional analysis; Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Building capacity and resilience in the dementia care workforce: a systematic review of interventions targeting worker and organizational outcomes; International Psychogeriatrics
Building on the positives: a psychometric review and critical analysis of the construct of Psychological Capital; Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
Business in Mind: Resource Kit and DVD [60 minute]; Epix Productions
Challenges in doctoral research and psychological distress of candidates
Communication for Business; Oxford University Press
Comparing interactive videodisc with traditional methods of social skills training; Education Training Technology International
Conceptualising authentic followers and developing a future research agenda; Authentic leadership and followership: International perspectives
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of a questionnaire measure of managerial stigma toward employee depression; Stress and Health
Coproduction for sustainability: Seeking the perspectives of informal dementia carers’ on capacity building for community services; Journal of Community Psychology
Counting on U training to enhance trusting relationships and mental health literacy among business advisors: protocol for a randomised controlled trial; BMC Psychiatry
Daily mindfulness practice increases psychological capital and reduces depression in doctoral students; 39th Annual Conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)
Delivering mental health first aid training in Australian workplaces: exploring instructors’ experiences; The International Journal of Mental Health Promotion
Demonstrating impact: data mapping and evidence-based wellbeing metrics
Depression in working adults: comparing the costs and health outcomes of working when ill; PLoS ONE
Depression literacy and help-seeking in Australian police; Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
Developing an Integrated Approach to Workplace Mental Health; Total Worker Health: Integrative Approaches to Safety, Health & Wellbeing
Developing an integrated approach to workplace mental health: a hypothetical conversation with a small business owner; Annals of Work Exposures and Health
Developing frameworks for managing workplace mental health in Australia: Opportunities and challenges; European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology Congress 2020
Developing Resilience in the Aged and Dementia Care Workforce; Resilience in Aging: Concepts, Research, and Outcomes
Developing the Occupational Communion Scale: Belonging-based social connections are vital for work engagement, self-efficacy, and positive affect in aged care workforces; The Gerontologist
Development of guidelines for workplace prevention of mental health problems: a Delphi consensus study with Australian professionals and employees; Mental Health and Prevention
Disseminating information during organisational change: Employee preferences for communication channels as a function of organisational level; 4th Annual Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference
Doctoral student distress and progress - can mindfulness help?; Teaching Matters 2015: Tasmanian Blends
Does workplace health promotion contribute to job stress reduction? Three-year findings from Partnering Healthy@Work; BMC Public Health
Effectiveness and application of an online leadership intervention to promote mental health and reduce depression-related stigma in organizations; Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
Effects of a mindfulness app on employee stress in an Australian public sector workforce: randomized controlled trial; JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Employee adjustment during organisational change: Differences between occupational groups in a hospital environment; Transcending Boundaries: Integrating People, Processes and Systems
Employee adjustment during organisational change: The role of climate, social support, negative affect and situational appraisals; Academy of Management Annual Meeting
Employee opinion survey: Experiences of bullying, intimidation and harassment.
Enhancing employee wellbeing & work-family outcomes by understanding optimal levels of Psychological Ownership; The Future of Ownership Conference
Enhancing individual and collective performance: Development of a multilevel psychological capital intervention model; Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Annual Conference
Enhancing the psychological capital of teams: Adapting an individual-level intervention for multilevel delivery and evaluation; Corporate wellness programs: Linking employee and organizational health
Evaluating The Virtues Project as a leadership development programme; Leadership
Evaluating the impact of a team-level psychological capital intervention; Human Resources International Conference (HRIC)
Evaluating the impact of a team-level psychological capital intervention for enhanced performance and wellbeing; Wellbeing at work
Evaluation of the Tasmanian suicide register final report
Exploring the role of mental health first aid officers in workplaces: A qualitative study using case study methodology; International Journal of Workplace Health Management
Factors associated with presenteeism among employed Australian adults reporting lifetime major depression with 12-month symptoms ; Journal of Affective Disorders
Fathers at Work: Work-Family Conflict, Work-Family Enrichment and Parenting in an Australian Cohort; Journal of Family Issues
Good Leadership: A Case for Virtue-based Leadership Development; 27th Annual Kravis-De Roulet Conference
How discretionary behaviors promote customer engagement: the role of psychosocial safety climate and psychological capital; Journal of Management & Organization
How managers experience situations involving employee mental ill-health; International Journal of Workplace Health Management
Illuminating the work-life interface: A grounded theory of organisational identification among MNC subsidiary employees; ANZAM
Improving workplace mental health: a training needs analysis to inform beyondblue's online resource for leaders; Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources
Increasing the positives, reducing the negatives: Organizational factors that promote positive spill-over and reduce work-family conflict; Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work: Macro to Micro Perspectives on Healthy Vital Work in the Asia Pacific
Indicators of a climate for gender equity and perceptions of procedural justice in promotion decisions: The moderating role of gender schematic beliefs; Australian Centre for Research in Employment and Work (ACREW) Conference
Individual and contextual correlates of managers' attitudes towards depressed employees; Human Resource Management
Is it all positive? A critical analysis of the current state of psychological capital research; ANZAM
Is mindfulness a noticeable quality? Development and validation of the observed mindfulness measure; Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
Is self-employment a good option? Gender, parents and the work-family interface; Sex Roles
Leaders juggle competing demands
Managerial understanding of presenteeism and its economic impact; International Journal of Workplace Health Management
Managing employees with mental health issues: Identification of conceptual and procedural knowledge for development within management education curricula; Academy of Management Learning and Education
Maternal work-family conflict and psychological distress: Reciprocal relationships over 8 years; Journal of Marriage and Family
Maximizing the positives: An investigation of psychological capital in relation to the satisfaction and wellbeing of SME owner-managers; Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Mental health and psychological well-being among management students and educators; Journal of Management Education
Mental illness, social suffering and structural antagonism in the labour process; Work, Employment and Society
Meta-analysis of the effects of health promotion intervention in the workplace on depression and anxiety symptoms; Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health
Mothers' work–family conflict and enrichment: associations with parenting quality and couple relationship; Child: Care, Health and Development
Nurses' responses to workplace verbal abuse: A scenario study of the impact of situational and individual factors; Research and Practice in Human Resource Management
Observed Mindfulness Measure (OMM); Handbook of Assessment in Mindfulness Research
Organisational Behaviour; McGraw-Hill Education
Organisations Looking Ahead: Challenges and Directions; The School of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management and The School of Management
Organizational Support for Mental Health, Stigmatization of Employees with Depression and Performance Appraisal: A Management Simulation Study; Psychosocial Factors at Work in the Asia Pacific: From Theory to Practice
Perks cut employers' pain
Perspectives of the community-based dementia care workforce: 'occupational communion' a key finding from the Work 4 Dementia Project; International Psychogeriatrics
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Policing; Organisational Behaviour: Emerging Knowledge, Global Insights
Practical strategies for workfamily resources management in the return-to-work experiences of new parents; Navigating the Return-to-Work Experience for New Parents: Maintaining Work-Family Well-Being
Predicting nurses' well-being from job demands and resources: a cross-sectional study of emotional labour; Journal of Nursing Management
Predictors of individual and organisational effectiveness during organisational change; 5th Annual Meeting of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists
Prevalence and correlates of psychological distress in a large and diverse public sector workforce: Baseline results from Partnering Healthy@Work; BMC Public Health
Promoting mental health in small-medium enterprises: An evaluation of the 'Business in Mind' program; BMC Public Health
Promoting workplace mental wellbeing: a rapid review of recent intervention research; Handbook of Disability, Work and Health
Protecting the mental health of small-to-medium enterprise owners: a randomized control trial evaluating a self-administered versus telephone supported intervention; Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Providing mental health first aid in the workplace: a Delphi consensus study; BMC Psychology
Psychological capital at the individual and team level: Implications for job satisfaction and turnover intentions of emergency services volunteers; ANZAM
Psychological distress and related work attendance among small-to-medium enterprise owner/managers: literature review and research agenda; International Journal of Mental Health Promotion
Psychological distress, related work attendance, and productivity loss in small-to-medium enterprise owner/managers; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Psychological health of doctoral candidates, study-related challenges and perceived performance; Higher Education Research and Development
Psychological ownership: a review and research agenda; Journal of Organizational Behavior: The IRIOP Annual Review Issue
Psychosocial safety climate and psychological capital for positive customer behavioral intentions in service organizations; American Journal of Business
Psychosocial safety climate and supportive leadership as vital enhancers of personal hope and resilience during the COVID‐19 pandemic; Stress and Health
Putting the leader back into authentic leadership: reconceptualising and rethinking leaders; Australian Journal of Management
Re-thinking and re-operationalizing product innovation capability: A review, critique and extension of dynamic capability view using theoretical triangulation; European Business Review
Reasons for Engagement: SME owner-manager motivations for engaging in a workplace mental health and wellbeing intervention; 77th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Reasons for engagement: SME owner-manager motivations for engaging in a workplace mental health and wellbeing intervention; Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Recruitment and retention challenges of a mental health promotion intervention targeting small and medium enterprises; Derailed Organizational Stress and Wellbeing Interventions: Confessions of failure and solutions for success
Responses to workplace verbal abuse: The influence of the gender and role of the perpetrator, the situation, and recipient assertiveness; ANZAM
Service climate and employee well-being in higher education; Journal of Management and Organization
Sources of stress and strategies for intervention during organisational change in a hospital environment; Transcending Boundaries: Integrating People, Processes and Systems
Status Differences in Employee Adjustment During Organisational Change; Journal of Managerial Psychology
Stress and coping of Australian community-based aged and dementia care employees; 4th International Wellbeing at Work Conference
Stress and coping with organisational change: Recent findings and implications; 6th Annual Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference
Supporting student psychological well-being in the I-O classroom; Industrial and Organizational Psychology
The impact of electronic surveillance and workplace empowerment on work attitudes and behaviour; Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference
The importance of the supervisor for the mental health and work attitudes of Australian aged care nurses; International Psychogeriatrics
The Psychosocial Work Environment, Employee Mental Health and Organizational Interventions: Improving Research and Practice by taking a Multilevel Approach; Stress and Health
The role of psychological climate in facilitating employee adjustment during organizational change; European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
The Student is the Customer: Service Climate and Employee Wellbeing in the Higher Education Sector; Australian Centre for Research in Employment and Work (ACREW) Conference
The Virtues Project: an approach to developing good leaders; Journal of Business Ethics
The work-family interface: a retrospective look at 20 years of research in JOHP; Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
Towards research co-production: Worksafe Victoria’s wellbeing strategy; Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work: Macro to Micro Perspectives on Healthy Vital Work in the Asia Pacific
Trends, costs and correlates of stress-related workers' compensation claims in a public sector workforce; Journal of Health, Safety and Environment
Understanding and improving managers' responses to employee depression; Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice
Understanding individual responses to failure by the organisation to fulfil its obligations: examining the influence of psychological capital and psychological contract type; Human Resource Management Journal
Understanding the organizational climate of unethical leadership in the Australian Football League; Journal of Leadership Studies
Using cognitive interviewing techniques in workplace settings; Advances in Organisational Research Methods and Analysis
Virtues at work: A leadership development study; 7th Annual Australasian Business Ethics Network (ABEN) Conference
We are not all coping: a cross-sectional investigation of resilience in the dementia care workforce; Health Expectations
We don't need more leaders – we need more good leaders. Advancing a virtues-based approach to leader(ship) development; The Leadership Quarterly
What is virtue? Advancing the conceptualization of virtue to inform positive organizational inquiry; The Academy of Management Perspectives
What matters for working fathers? Job characteristics, work-family conflict and enrichment, and fathers' postpartum mental health in an Australian cohort; Social Science & Medicine
What's work doing to us? ; AHRI 2007
Workplace bullying: Incidence and impacts; ANZAM: Managing for Volatility and Instability
Workplace Conflict Pre-Training Report for Newport & Wildman: June 2018
Workplace health promotion and mental health: three-year findings from partnering Healthy@Work; PLoS ONE
Workplace mental health promotion research: A literature review; 1st Asia Pacific Congress on Workplace and Organisational Psychology
Workplace mental health: an international review of guidelines; Preventive Medicine
Workplace mental health: Co-production of an action plan for Australia; Work, Stress, and Health Conference: Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities
Workplace mental health: developing an integrated intervention approach; BMC psychiatry
Workplace mental health: development of an integrated intervention strategy for an Australian policing organisation; Stress in Policing
Workplace stress: What is the role of positive mental health?; Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Research Projects

An Evaluation of the 2007 Tasmania Fire Service (TFS) 2007 Bullying Survey Data and the Impact of Preventive Initiatives; WorkCover Tasmania (WCT)
Development of an integrated mental health literacy and job stress intervention; Institute for Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research (ISCRR)
Integrated Workplace Mental Health Promotion for the Prevention and Management of Mental Illness in the Workplace; National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Leadership for Mental Health and Wellbeing of Volunteer Workforces; Department of Health (Tasmania) (DoH TAS)
Promoting Employee Mental Health through the Development of Managers' Psychological Capital: A Controlled Field Experiment; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Service Climate in Universities: A Predictive Model of Staff and Student Satisfaction; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Tasmanian Fire Service - Bullying Research Project; Tasmania Fire Service (TFS)
Advisory services to the Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Unit of the Australian Public Service Commission
Co-Design workshops for check-in website enhancement/additions
CommuniCorp Group Advisory Panel
Evaluation of the Tasmanian Suicide Register
Mentally Healthy Workplaces Multi-site Pilot Program Evaluation: Expert advisory services.
Mentally Healthy Workplaces: A Brief Consultation
The ageing workforce and organisational health
Worksafe Tasmania - Workplace Mental Health Expert Advisory Services

Research Candidate Supervision

Capacity Building and Resilience for the Community-Based Dementia Care Workforce
Depression-related Presenteeism- Identifying the Correlates, Estimating the Consequences, and Valuing Associated Lost Productive Time
Investigating Dynamic Capabilities' Impact on Firm Performance- A Meta-analysis of Empirical Research
Leadership, Collaboration and the Possibilities of Transformation
New Directions in Psychological Capital Research- A Critical Analysis and Theoretical and Empirical Extensions to Individual and Team Level Measurement.
New Leaders for New Times- An Investigation into the Effectiveness of Mental Health Training for Organisational Leaders
People, perceptions and policies- public sector workforce alignment
Prioritising Identity- A Grounded Theory of Employees' Evaluation of the Work-Life Interface in Multinational Corporations
Research in Workplace Health in the Partnering Healthy@Work Project
The Effects of Job Demands and Resources on Emotional Labour and Employees' Psychological Well-Being
The Role of Humour in Leadership and Organisational Culture
Understanding the shapers of uncivil workplace behaviours and equipping the workforce to proactively prevent them adversely impacting individual, workgroup, workforce performance and productivity.
Wellbeing Processes in Communities and Organizations- What Works?
Workplace Mental Health Promotion