Keeping Up
Employee relations and motivation
Application of techniques to improve interpersonal relationships between
workers and enhance individual and organisational performance through
increased willingness to act in a certain manner.
Key Tasks
- Employee assistance programmes
- Conflict resolution
- Performance incentive systems, i.e. remuneration.
- Performance management programmes
- Fostering health and well-being among employees, including stress
and stress management.
Reading
- NZ Workplace Bullying Amongst Worst In The World
- Gender,
Work and Organization
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Industrial and Labor Relations Review
- Patterson, J M (1986). An assessment of the usefulness of Kanungo's
conceptualisation and measurement of job and work involvement. Masters
Thesis. University of Waikato
- Rundle-Gardiner, A. C. & Carr, S. C. (2005). Quitting a workplace
that discourages achievement motivation: Do individual differences matter?
New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 34, 3, 149-154.
Sabotage in the workplace
- Abbott, W. A. (2001). Negative nonverbal communication: Retaliation,
sabotage, theft, and violence in the workplace. Dissertation Abstracts
International Section A: Humanities & Social Sciences, 62(5-A),
1637
- Ambrose, M. L., Seabright, M. A. & Schminke, M. Sabotage in the
workplace: The role of organizational injustice (2002). Organizational
Behavior & Human Decision Processes, 89(1), 947-965.
- DiBattista, R. A. (1996). Forecasting sabotage events in the workplace.
Public Personnel Management, Vol 25(1), 41-52.
- Giesburg, J. (2001). The role of communication in preventing workplace
sabotage. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 31(12), 2439-2461.
- Giacalone, R. A.; Rosenfeld, P. (1987). Reasons for employee sabotage
in the workplace. Journal of Business & Psychology, 1(4), 367-378.
- Klein, R. L., Leong, G. B. & Silva, J. A. (1996). Employee sabotage
in the workplace: A biopsychosocial model. Journal of Forensic Sciences,
41(1),52-55.
Values
- Paton, D., Jackson, D. & Johnston, P. (2003). Work attitudes and
values. In M. O'Driscoll, P. Taylor, & T. Kalliath (Eds.). Organisational
Psychology in Australia and New Zealand (pp. 127-149). Melbourne: Oxford
University Press.
Happiness
- Fredriscksen,
B.L. and Losada, M.F. (2005). Positive Affect and the Complex Dynamics
of Human Flourishing. American Psychologist. October.
Networks
Other Activities
- Ask a peer to critically review your work
- Prepare or review a best practice guideline in the area
- Aim to read an article regularly and review it for the practical
implications for your work
- Canvas a post graduate University Course to refresh your approach
and be exposed to the latest literature