NEW - MENTAL HEALTH, WORKPLACE AND SAFETY
Psychosocial Toolkits for First Responders with Karina Jorritsma
In this episode, Australian hosts Jason and Joelle chat with Dr Karina Jorritsma, Professor of Practice at Curtin University's Future of Work Institute. Karina shares insights from a recent project developing toolkits to assist first responder organisations in preventing psychological harm.
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MOTIVATION
You Oughta Know with Marylène Gagné
Our discussion today will focus on various types of work environments- specifically in how pay and other compensation and benefit models affect motivation, productivity, and performance. Of course, we talk about many other related topics in the context of work, as well.
WORK DESIGN AND VIRTUAL WORK
Work Design in the hard reality of remote work with Professor Sharon Parker
In this episode, Sharon discussed:
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How to design work to maximize efficiency?
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How to use work design to shape the reality of our employees in remote and hybrid environments?
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How to manage social support in remote environment?
FUTURE OF WORK
Productivity and innovation in the future with Professor Mark Griffin
As with so much of our lives in these most-interesting of times, predicting what's ahead is fraught with error.
If Australia is to position itself to deal with new ways of working and living, we need to be able to say with some degree of certainty what the future might hold.
SMART WORK DESIGN
How to use SMART Work Design to help your team thrive with Professor Sharon Parker
In this episode Professor Parker dives in to the concept of SMART Work Design, how digitisation and automation are impacting on jobs and skills of the future. The responsibility managers have to use technology as a force for good and not evil, and what managers can do to become better remote managers.
WORK DESIGN AND VIRTUAL WORK
Redesigning Post-Pandemic work life with Professor Sharon Parker
Sharon Parker is the Director of the Center for Transformative Work Design at Curtin University, and creator of the SMART work design model that can help companies redesign post-pandemic working routines.
MATURE WORKERS
Do we truly value experienced workers in Australia? With Dr Daniela Andrei
Jess Strutt explores the challenges and motivations for mature workers.
WORKING LIFE AND EMPLOYEMENT
The rise of insecure work with Professor Sharon Parker
In this episode of This Working Life, we’re delving into the rise in insecure work – how it’s grown, the impact it’s had on us and what we can do about it. Most of us are well aware of the negative effect of this kind of work on our health, but perhaps the most surprising impact is on our personality.​
WORK DESIGN AND VIRTUAL WORK
Remote management in the COVID era with Professor Sharon Parker
In this episode We discuss remote work in the covid era. In particular, Professor Sharon Parker explores how the ‘working from home’ phenomenon has helped bolster Australia’s economy and how people can work most effectively from home to support their mental health.
MANAGEMENT
Working from home: A blessing or a curse? With Sharon Parker
Pyjamas, commuting from bed to your desk just minutes after waking up, no boss looking over your shoulder–working from home sounds like a dream. But what about the pressures from family, bad technology, and lack of support from colleagues? Professor Sharon Parker discusses the Australian workforce’s adjustment to isolated work.
FUTURE OF WORK
Jobs fit for a human with Professor Gagne and Professor Dunlop
Chris Lloyd speaks with Professor Marylene Gagne and Professor Patrick Dunlop from the Future of Work Institute in Perth, Western Australia to understand the challenges associated with future job design and to explore the purpose of Thrive at Work.
VIRTUAL WORK
Virtual team research with Dr Florian Klonek
Employees working in ‘virtual teams’ can overcome performance difficulties to work effectively if they have positive feedback, social support and job autonomy in their tasks and jobs, new research involving Curtin University has found.
MATURE WORKERS
Mature workforce with Dr Daniela Andrei
In this episode we discuss Australia's mature workplace and the complexities involved.
AI
Jobs for humans with Professor Mark Griffin
Digital disruption, AI, automation and changing views about work-life balance are going to transform our workplaces. A Deloitte Access Economics report forecasts that four out of five jobs created between now and 2030 will be for ‘knowledge workers’. In this episode, Jess and David are joined by Professor Mark Griffin, to discuss how our workplaces are going to change.
MANAGEMENT
Bad managers? With Dr Caroline Knight
Curtin University research fellow Dr Caroline Knight has just published some research on the impact managers can make on their employees through work design.
Research indicates that up to 50% of American workers have changed jobs due to bad managers, with suspicions that the figure of similar instances in Australia cannot be far off.