Organisation and work
The research in this broad area focuses on people's experiences at work, how they feel, how they perform, and how improvements can be made. Areas of expertise include employment relations and youth; leadership in complex projects; employee performance; learning and development; as well as organisational climate and culture.
Research programs and groups
The theme comprises three major programs and one group:
Projects
This is just a sample of our research activity in this area.
- Airports of the Future
- Airport Metropolis
- Customising work through manager-employee exchange
- Collaborative e-learning for Rail
- Sexual Harassment in Australia: Contexts, Outcomes and Prevention
- Strategic work design in engineering asset environments
- Maximising Diffusion of Innovative Products on Public Infrastructure Projects: A Qualitative Management Study of Open Innovation Systems
- The Contribution of Project Leader Behaviours To Processes And Outcomes In Large Scale Projects
- Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Coaching in Reducing Workplace Stress: Laboratory and Field Investigations
- CIEAM project - Career and Succession Management for Engineering and Technical Personnel
Student topics
Potential topics for new research students, and topics our students are currently studying.
- Taking the "e" out of e-learning
- Blended learning: How, what and why?
- Bystander responses in workplace sexual harassment
- Individual responses to workplace sexual harassment
- One size fits one: customising work arrangements
- Tactics used in cases of workplace sexual harassment
- Flexible work policies and the gender contract
- Social media, knowledge and learning in organisations
- SMEs, Innovation and the role of Business Advice
- Justice denied: Organisational grievance procedures in cases of workplace sexual harassment
- Balancing study and paid employment: the experiences of high school students
- Critical factors in the selection and adoption of e-learning systems
- Young people and work: Pathways to employment, family and leisure
- SMEs and innovation: The role of external business advice and government support
People
Program leaders
- Human resources
- Professor Lisa Bradley
- Leadership and complex projects
- Associate Professor Anne Pisarski
- Employment and industrial relations
- Associate Professor Paula McDonald
Research degree enquiries
QUT Business School - Research Support Office
- Phone: 3138 1407
- Int. phone: +61 07 3138 1407
- Email: bus.research@qut.edu.au
- Level 7, Z Block,
Room Z704
Gardens Point
2 George St
Brisbane QLD 4000
- Postal address:
Research Support Office - QUT Business School
2 George St
Brisbane QLD 4001
