By Melissa Goodman We all want a workforce in Aotearoa that is thriving, booming, engaged and resilient, right? Words and phrases such as...

By Veerick Patel A large proportion of work in the world requires us to be able to manage our emotions when interacting with others, be...

By Zane Sheeran There’s no doubt that work can be very stressful, but is stress always bad? Could stress actually make us happier and...

Lana Morris After listening to and (most importantly) watching this music video, I was able to see how it is an illustration of some of...

Lana Morris When I listen to the lyrics of this song and think of them in relation to this weeks lecture topics, I think about employee...

Denae McCready The Offsprings ask “why don’t you get a job?” Well, turns out it’s just not that simple. It’s about finding the right...

This week is the first in a series of blogs from my students at Waikato University. We have a song in the lecture and there's a...

The wellbeing of farmers is a common discussion point among us farmers. Farming is physically and psychologically challenging, especially...

Whether we’re studying psychology or working in another field, we often think about how our personality influences our lives. We say...

From a Western individualist perspective, authenticity is seen as being true to who you are, irrespective of the context. However,...

As you might know if you’ve read some of my other blogs, authenticity, or the sense of being true to ourselves, is one of my main areas...

As a researcher, I am often amazed at how generously people will contribute to my research. They will volunteer their time to complete...

I finally got round to adopting a dog and am lucky enough to be able to take him into work with me. It got me wondering whether anyone...

What does it mean to be “professional” in your career? One of my now-graduated PhD students, SJ Lennie, has investigated the expectations...

Mindfulness has become a hot topic over the last couple of years. Managers, athletes, and even the military engage in mindfulness...

The second edition of my work psychology textbook has just been published and it marks the very rewarding end of months of hard work....

Guest blog by Chris Robinson about his Master of Applied Psychology (Organisational) thesis project. Having walked through the local...

We have been trying to figure out what makes a ‘good life’ for millennia. And everyone from the ancient Greek philosophers to modern day...

I recently wrote a guest blog for my book publisher, Macmillan International Higher Education: Arguably the greatest challenge facing...

What does it mean to be 'authentic' at work? In Western, individualist societies we tend to believe that a really authentic person will...