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Below are videos of Organizational Psychology staff discussing their research.

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Dr Gillian Symon

Dr Gillian Symon

The relationship between  technology and organizations - how technology mediates work processes, how technology might be introduced into organizations and what the change processes around that might be.

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Dr Julie Dickinson


What determines pay? What causes difference in pay levels? And what determines whether or not people think pay is fair? Julie Dickinson discusses her research on people’s shared beliefs about fair pay and what effects such beliefs may have on maintaining pay differentials. Julie also discusses the recent concerns about escalating executive pay levels and what organizations can do about maintaining perceptions of fair pay.

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Professor Philip Dewe


Speaking about ‘Understanding and measuring coping at work’.

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Dr Andreas Liefooghe


Speaking about work psychology and the organizing and disciplining demands work places on us.

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Professor Rob Briner


Speaking about 'Evidence Based Management'

What is Evidence-Based Management and were did it come from? How can organizations and managers be more evidence-based and build on their own experience and understanding of their context? What are the advantages of incorporating evidence from research into management decisions? Do busy managers have time to engage with evidence?

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Dr Neil Conway


Speaking about 'The Psychological Contract'

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Professor Rob Briner and Dr Neil Conway


Speaking about 'The Psychological Contract'

Neil Conway and Rob Briner discuss where the idea came from, what research has told us so far, what the gaps are, and how organizations might be able to manage it

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Dr Kate Mackenzie Davey


My initial research interest was on the relation between individuals and their work, specifically how work changed people. Women joining male dominated organizations were a group that didn’t fit the culture so were likely to adapt change. Talking about that change turned out to be very difficult and involve complex contradictions between discourses of change and stability (Arnold & Mackenzie Davey, 2000). More recently, I have focussed on the perceptions of politics in careers in organizations and the career achievements of outsiders (Mackenzie Davey, in press). In future I want to explore how outsiders manage the politics of career achievement in organizations.

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