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Emotional Labour
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...
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PSYCH579 students
Jul 26, 20221 min read
A plan and not quite enough time
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...
Organisational Psychology students 2022
May 8, 20221 min read
Can't touch this
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...
Organisational Psychology students 2022
Mar 27, 20221 min read
You learn
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...
Organisational Psychology students 2022
Mar 20, 20222 min read
Why don't you get a job?
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...
Organisational Psychology students 2022
Mar 11, 20222 min read
War, what is it good for?
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...
Cathleen Schriber
Jan 11, 20221 min read
Mindfulness in farming.
The wellbeing of farmers is a common discussion point among us farmers. Farming is physically and psychologically challenging, especially...
Sam Carey
Dec 7, 20211 min read
Personality and self-awareness
Whether we’re studying psychology or working in another field, we often think about how our personality influences our lives. We say...
Lijana Kuluz
Nov 15, 20211 min read
Do your cultural values influence what being authentic means to you?
From a Western individualist perspective, authenticity is seen as being true to who you are, irrespective of the context. However,...
Anna Sutton
Oct 18, 20212 min read
Memories of who we are
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...
Anna Sutton
Sep 17, 20212 min read
Mutually beneficial research
As a researcher, I am often amazed at how generously people will contribute to my research. They will volunteer their time to complete...
Anna Sutton
Apr 7, 20211 min read
It's a dog's (work) life
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...
Anna Sutton
Mar 9, 20211 min read
Professional robots
What does it mean to be “professional” in your career? One of my now-graduated PhD students, SJ Lennie, has investigated the expectations...
Anja Roemer
Feb 10, 20212 min read
Short mindfulness training: Who benefits from the hype?
Mindfulness has become a hot topic over the last couple of years. Managers, athletes, and even the military engage in mindfulness...
Anna Sutton
Jan 18, 20212 min read
Growth mindsets and writing textbooks
The second edition of my work psychology textbook has just been published and it marks the very rewarding end of months of hard work....
Anna Sutton
Jan 28, 20202 min read
Electronic monitoring: good for some and bad for others?
Guest blog by Chris Robinson about his Master of Applied Psychology (Organisational) thesis project. Having walked through the local...
Anna Sutton
Nov 14, 20191 min read
Living the good life: authenticity, well-being and engagement
We have been trying to figure out what makes a ‘good life’ for millennia. And everyone from the ancient Greek philosophers to modern day...
Anna Sutton
Mar 18, 20191 min read
Green HRM and the future of work
I recently wrote a guest blog for my book publisher, Macmillan International Higher Education: Arguably the greatest challenge facing...
Anna Sutton
Oct 26, 20182 min read
"home" me and "work" me
What does it mean to be 'authentic' at work? In Western, individualist societies we tend to believe that a really authentic person will...
Anna Sutton
Apr 5, 20181 min read
Coffee and loyalty
My favourite campus coffee shop had a technical issue other day, meaning that for an hour or so, no one could pay by card. But instead of...
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