Tagged with Peter Jordan

WOW’s Deputy Director, Professor Peter Jordan, researches how emotions impact on people’s behaviour at work. Why? He just finds it interesting to understand why people behave and react as they do because in his opinion, emotions will be behind most of it! Paying him to do this is a bonus, Peter adds, because it certainly […]

When we talk to human resource (HR) managers about what constitutes a job, most point to the many different tasks their organisation expects employees to fulfill as a part of their role. Managers are told to make jobs interesting and the focus of managers and academics has been on allocating tasks that are interesting and […]

The wellbeing of the next generation of employers and employees needs attention now

The end of the calendar year invariably brings thoughts of new starts, new challenges and new hope. A change in employment is often top of the wish list, especially when someone has had a less than pleasant 12 months at work. A new study by researchers at Griffith University’s Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing […]

The research of a cohort of Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW) members was recognised recently by constituents and the Organising Committee of the annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management conference, held in Perth in early December (2012). Griffith Business School’s Dean (Academic), and WOW member, Professor Marie Wilsonwas admitted as a […]