Five minutes with…Peter Jordan

Professor Peter Jordan
Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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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 […]

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 […]

The state of work-life balance across Australasia

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
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Work-life balance (WLB) research employs multiple definitions and means of measurement. Essentially though it is the interaction of demands that arise from work and non-work environments, and the variation of these demands between countries and cultures is the focus of a recently co-authored book chapter by Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing (WOW) and Menzie’s […]