by Kevin St Mart | Oct 3, 2021
Author : Amy Zadow – Research Fellow in Organisational Psychology, University of South Australia What could be so bad about answering a few emails in the evening? Perhaps something urgent pops up, we are tidying up an issue from the day, or trying to get ahead...
by Kevin St Mart | Aug 17, 2021
We all know that psychosocial risk needs to be identified and managed to prevent the harmful effects of work-related factors on staff health, workplace productivity and the bottom line, but organisations are still willing to ‘put off’ the risk assessment. The reasons...
by Kevin St Mart | Jul 21, 2021
While awareness of hazardous psychosocial factors such as excessive job demands, inadequate resources, bullying and harassment is widely known, Human Resource and Workplace Health and Safety professionals are starting to ask three very...
by Kevin St Mart | Jul 1, 2021
For over 40 years academic researchers in the field of workplace psychology have shown the link between mental health and work-related factors (e.g., job demands, job control, job resources). Internationally the nature of work has shifted away from physical demands...