
Ingrid NielsenDeakin University · Department of Management
Ingrid Nielsen
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Introduction
Ingrid Nielsen is Professor of Management and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Business & Law at Deakin University and sits on the 5-member ABDC BARDsNet Executive. She was formerly Associate Dean (Research & Research Training) in the Faculty of Business & Economics at Monash University. Ingrid works on labour migration, work and life satisfaction. She holds a current Australian Research Council Discovery Grant on the role of psychological capital in workplace integration of refugees.
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January 2014 - September 2016
August 2014 - present
January 2003 - August 2014
Education
January 2000 - October 2003
January 1999 - December 1999
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Publications (103)
Purpose – This paper examines the factors that influence the work attitudes of employees and the conditional effects of family support on the job demand–turnover intention relationship.
Design/methodology/approach – We used a sample of 231 employees working in the manufacturing industry in Vietnam to test our conceptual model.
Findings – Drawing...
The present study examines the antecedents of the career adaptability of people from a refugee background. Drawing on career construction theory, it specifically examines whether openness to experience fosters career adaptability through enhancing career optimism. In addition, it examines whether family social support moderates the relationship bet...
It is often said that the rule of law is enshrined in the Constitution and that it is the cornerstone of our parliamentary democracy. When the High Court invokes the concept, it typically does so in the context of discussing the protection that the rule of law provides to the fundamental rights that we all enjoy to go about our everyday lives and s...
Employment underpins the successful resettlement and integration of refugees, and human resource (HR) professionals are integral to successful employee-employer relationships. Until recently research has largely over-looked the role of HR professionals in the recruitment and integration of employees at work. Reviewing the literature on refugee empl...
Employing longitudinal data, we examine how income mediates, and sexual identity moderates, the gender-job satisfaction relationship using the theoretical lens of human capital theory. We find that income does mediate the gender-job satisfaction relationship and that the mediated relationship between gender and job satisfaction is moderated by sexu...
This research investigated how and under what conditions thriving at work affects career attitudes and behaviors. Using an experimental design (n = 174), Study 1 found that the effects of thriving on career satisfaction, career commitment, and career engagement were mediated by career resilience. The positive effect of thriving on career resilience...
Positivity theory posits that the courts rely on powerful legitimizing symbols-such as elaborate judicial attire, honorific forms of address and imposing courtroom design-to ensure legitimacy in the eyes of the public in the absence of an electoral mandate. The argument is that such legitimizing symbols evoke images of learning and pageantry and cr...
Judicial legitimacy is fundamental to ensuring public acceptance of courts' decisions when judges have no electoral mandate. Yet, in Australia, we know very little about the legitimacy of the courts in the eyes of the general public or the factors associated with judicial legitimacy. Drawing on a survey of a representative sample of Australian adul...
We examine the ability of intergroup contact to ameliorate intergroup relationship in an entrepreneurial and developing world context. Specifically, we provide a simple decision model of how an entrepreneur chooses to invest time to extend their professional network. The model accommodates two distinct channels, and generates alternative prediction...
This study examines the mediating effects of reflective moral attentiveness on the relationship between ethical leadership and subordinates' unethical pro‐organizational behavior (UPB). Based on two‐wave survey data obtained from 233 employees in 60 teams from Chinese government agencies, we found that ethical leadership was positively related to r...
With increased emphasis being placed on entrepreneurial thinking and acting in today’s
careers, we have witnessed growing research on entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) over the
last two decades. The present study provides a systematic review of the literature on the
theoretical foundations, measurement, antecedents, and outcomes of ESE, and work...
Purpose - Workplace thriving is a psychological state that promotes employee health and development. In addition to presenting a useful instrument that captures the nature of a thriving work life in China, we investigated important factors that influence one’s thriving status within this national context.
Design/methodology/approach –Using divers...
Existing studies for the United States examine the extent to which the public is knowledgeable about US courts, arguing that knowledge of the courts is linked to public support for their role. We know little, though, about the Australian public’s awareness of the High Court of Australia. We report the results of a survey of a representative sample...
Using the theoretical lens of the Job Characteristics Model, this paper uses the data from the 2012 National Aged Care Workforce Census and Survey (NACWCS) in Australia to examine the relationship between aged care employees’ perceived job quality and intention to stay in current aged care facilities, mediated by work-life interference. We find a d...
This paper examines the mediating effect of career engagement on the relationship between cognitive cultural intelligence (CQ) and life satisfaction among international migrant workers in Australia. It also examines the moderating effect of perceived social injustice on the cognitive CQ-career engagement relationship, as well as on the indirect cog...
Over the last few years, we have witnessed the largest displacement of refugees in modern history. Among the many challenges faced by refugees, finding employment and navigating the employment relationship are crucial for successful integration into mainstream society. In this editorial, we outline the background of our special issue on the vocatio...
The present study explores the unique effect of entrepreneurial leadership on the relationship between employees' creative self-efficacy (CSE) and innovative behavior. Using multi-level data from multiple sources, namely, 66 middle-level managers and their 346 subordinates from a large Chinese multinational organization, the effect of CSE on innova...
This article examines the psychological processes through which diversity climate influences the work attitudes of refugee employees in Australia; and the conditional effects of ethnic identity on the climate – attitude relationship. Drawing on two-waves of data from 135 refugees in employment in Australia, we find that diversity climate influences...
Set point theory suggests that people's subjective wellbeing (SWB) levels are generally maintained within a relatively narrow band in the long run. In the short-run, SWB might deviate from this long run level, for example, in response to major life events, but these deviations will normally be temporary in nature and SWB will be restored within the...
This study examines the relationship between social support from work and non-work domains and the wellbeing of refugee employees. In addition, it examines the mediating influence of psychological capital on these relationships. Using data from 190 refugee employees living in Australia, we find that while perceived organizational support and percei...
Purpose – This paper examines the mediating roles of procedural justice and distributive justice in the organizational inclusion–affective wellbeing relationship.
Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 253 Australian employees using an online survey. The study used confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling to an...
We examine the influence of instructor support, family support and psychological capital on the subjective wellbeing of postgraduate business students, including whether psychological capital mediates the proposed support – wellbeing relationship. We further investigate whether family support moderates this proposed mediated relationship. We find d...
Using the theoretical lens of the Job Characteristics Model, this paper uses the data from the 2012 National Aged Care Workforce Census and Survey (NACWCS) in Australia to examine the relationship between aged care employees' perceived job quality and intention to stay in current aged care facilities, mediated by work-life interference. We find a d...
This is the introductory article to a special issue of Social Indicators Research, titled 'Wellbeing in China'.
We examine the effect of inter-provincial migration on air and water pollution for a panel of Chinese provinces over the period 2000-2013. To do so, we employ linear and non-linear panel data models in a Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence and Technology (STIRPAT) framework. Results from linear and non-linear models suggest th...
A large body of literature attests to the growing social divide between urban residents and rural-urban migrants in China’s cities. This study uses a randomised experiment to test the effect of intergroup contact on attitudes between a group of urban adolescents and a group of rural-urban migrant adolescents. Results showed that intergroup contact...
This paper analyses the impact of urbanization and trade openness on emissions and energy intensity in twenty-two increasingly urbanized emerging economies. We employ three second-generation heterogeneous linear panel models as well as recently developed nonlinear panel estimation techniques allowing for cross-sectional dependence. The empirical re...
Demands on nurses in China are increasing following the introduction of China's 'New Healthcare Reform Program', leading to more stressful working conditions and increased burnout and turnover. Employing a social exchange framework, this study investigates emotional exhaustion and positive organizational support (POS) as individual level psychologi...
This paper presents context specific (classroom and test) psychometric data on Shell, Murphy and Bruning's (1989) Writing Skills Self-efficacy Scale in a sample of 302 Australian middle school students. Students reported significantly lower writing self-efficacy for the test context than for the classroom context, supporting the need for context di...
This study has three purposes. The first is to examine the determinants of wage arrears among rural-urban migrants in China. The second is to examine the effect of wage arrears on economic wellbeing as proxied by wages. The third is to examine how experiencing wage arrears affects several subjective indicators of wellbeing, such as feelings of belo...
This study has three purposes. The first is to examine the determinants of wage arrears among rural-urban migrants in China. The second is to examine the effect of wage arrears on economic wellbeing as proxied by wages. The third is to examine how experiencing wage arrears affects several subjective indicators of wellbeing, such as feelings of belo...
This paper analyses the impact of urbanization and trade openness on emissions and energy intensity in twenty-two increasingly urbanized emerging economies. We employ three second generation heterogeneous linear panel models as well as recently developed nonlinear panel estimation techniques allowing for cross sectional dependence. The empirical re...
This paper examines the impact of employee perceptions of organizational corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices on their job performance and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Hierarchical regression analysis on two-wave data from 184 supervisor/subordinate dyads from three organizations located in Zhejiang Province, South-East Chi...
A spate of media attention has focused on the harsh conditions endured by Indonesian labour migrants in Malaysia. In June 2009, human rights abuses led to a ban by Indonesia on recruitment of Indonesians for domestic service in Malaysia. This ban was overturned on May 30th 2011, with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the tw...
This paper examines the influence of perceived organizational support and perceived supervisor support on employee life satisfaction. Structural equation modelling on data from 393 nurses from two Chinese hospitals revealed that job satisfaction fully mediated the relationship between perceived organizational support and life satisfaction. In contr...
We show how the concepts of remembered utility and experienced utility correspond to cognitive appraisals of life satisfaction and emotion/affect respectively, as these concepts are used in psychology. Cognitive life satisfaction, or remembered utility, is relatively stable over time and can be considered as reflecting subjective wellbeing in the l...
Cognitively appraised life satisfaction is relatively stable over time and can be considered as reflecting subjective wellbeing in the long run. Affect is transitory and can be considered as reflecting subjective wellbeing in the short run. Using the Personal Wellbeing Index to measure cognitively appraised life satisfaction and the Positive and Ne...
This paper uses a novel identification strategy proposed by Lewbel (2012, J. Bus. Econ. Stat.) to illustrate how causation between job satisfaction and life satisfaction can be established with cross-sectional data. In addition to examining the relationship between composite job satisfaction and life satisfaction, we consider the relationship betwe...
A large body of literature attests to the growing social divide between urban residents and rural-urban migrants in China's cities. This study uses a randomised experiment to test the effect of intergroup contact on attitudes between a group of urban adolescents and a group of rural-urban migrant adolescents. Results showed that intergroup contact...
This study models the effects on attitudes and behaviour of intergroup contact between minority-status Chinese residents and majority-status residents in the Tuscan city of Prato in Italy. The study contributes to theory by building upon Allport’s original contact thesis through modelling the effects of intimate and non-intimate contact on behaviou...
This study investigates personal wellbeing among a sample of ethnic Koreans in China's Northeast using the eight-item Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI). The PWI demonstrated good psychometric properties, consistent with previous studies. The data revealed a moderate level of personal wellbeing (PWI score = 70.3) and the results supported the Theory of...
This study is the first to test Allport's (1954) contact hypothesis from the perspective of a minority group in China. Employing a sample of off-farm migrant workers in urban China, results indicate a positive effect on self-reported attitudes of intergroup friendship contact between migrant and local workers; and positive effects on self-reported...
We examine the relationship between atmospheric and water pollution, traffic congestion, access to parkland and personal well-being
using a survey administered across six Chinese cities in 2007. In contrast to existing studies of well-being determinants
by economists which typically employ single-item indicators, we use the Personal Well-being Inde...
This study tests the moderating effect of job complexity and social status, proxied by a unique Chinese cultural variable (hukou status), on the relationship between job satisfaction and subjective well-being in urban China. Data on these and a range of demographic variables were collected from 1025 workers in Fujian Province in the People's Republ...
As a result of China's family planning policy of ‘raising population quality and controlling population size’ initiated in the late 1970s, China has accomplished a population transition from high birth rate, low mortality rate and high population growth to low birth rate, low mortality rate and low population growth within a remarkably short timefr...
This article reports the findings of a survey administering the personal well-being index (PWI) in six Chinese cities (N = 3,390) to ascertain the personal well-being of China’s urban population. The specific aims of the study were: (a) ascertain
whether Chinese urban residents are satisfied with their lives; (b) validate the PWI using an urban sam...
This paper investigates the personal and environmental determinants of public security perceptions across 32 Chinese cities
within the risk/opportunity framework of Cohen and Felson’s (American Sociological Review 44:588–608, 1979) routine activity theory. Structural path analysis reveals that public security perceptions in China are informed by si...
China is not merely growing at double the rate of the European countries during the Industrial Revolution, it is also urbanising at double the speed. Using a unique dataset of rural-to-urban migrants in 15 major Chinese cities, we give preliminary answers to some of the most pressing policy questions: how many migrants are there and what are their...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors predicting which employees receive employer‐funded commercial pension insurance contributions in Shanghai's zhenbao (town insurance) program, introduced by the Shanghai Government in 2003.
Design/methodology/approach
A series of hypotheses are developed to examine whether employees with c...
This study examines the relationship between positive affectivity, negative affectivity, job satisfaction, and life satisfaction using a sample of 558 urban employees from Dalian. Positive and negative affectivity were measured with Watson's PANAS scale, job satisfaction was measured with Spector's JSS scale, and life satisfaction was measured with...
Resumen
En 2003, la Oficina de Trabajo y Seguridad Social de Shanghai lanzó el programa zhenbao (seguro municipal), conocido ahora generalmente como el modelo 25 + X. Este régimen está considerado como un experimento importante en materia de reforma de la seguridad social y se le ha elogiado por extender la seguridad social a zonas donde anteriorme...
Résumé
En 2003, le Bureau de Shanghai du travail et de la sécurité sociale a lancé le programme zhenbao (assurance urbaine), aujourd'hui largement connu sous le nom de «25 plus X». Ce régime est considéré comme une expérience importante en matière de réforme de la sécurité sociale, et on lui a reconnu le mérite d'étendre la sécurité sociale à des...
Auszug
Im Jahr 2003 startete das Amt für Arbeit und soziale Sicherheit von Schanghai das zhenbao (Stadtversicherungs‐)Programm, das nun unter dem Namen 25 plus X bekannt ist. Dieses System gilt als wichtiges Experiment in der Reform der sozialen Sicherheit und wird gelobt, weil es die soziale Sicherheit auf Bereiche ausweitet, in denen vorher nur g...
Existing research applying the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) in China is restricted to urban and rural samples. There are no studies for Chinese off-farm migrants. The specific aims of this study are (a) ascertain whether Chinese off-farm are satisfied with their lives; (b) investigate the equivalence of the PWI in terms of its psychometric proper...
International visitor arrivals to Bali are examined using univariate and panel Lagrange multiplier (LM) unit root tests with one and two structural breaks to ascertain if shocks to the time path of tourist arrivals are permanent or transitory. The univariate LM unit root tests with one and two structural breaks fail to reject the null hypothesis of...
In 2003, the Shanghai Bureau of Labour and Social Security launched the zhenbao (town insurance) programme, now widely known as 25 plus X. This scheme is regarded as an important experiment in social security reform and has been lauded for extending social security to areas where previously only segments of the population had mandatory coverage. Us...
This article examines the relationship between the female labour force participation rate and total fertility rate for the
G7 countries from 1960 to 2006 using panel unit root, panel cointegration, Granger causality and long-run structural estimation.
The article’s main findings are that the female labour force participation rate and total fertilit...
This article examines job satisfaction and incentive structures among China's urban workforce. The main determinants of job satisfaction are found to be age, education, occupation and personal income. The criteria that Chinese urban employees considered most important when choosing a job were job stability, a high income and professional developmen...
China has an estimated 120-150 million internal migrants from the countryside living in its cities. These people are the engine that has been driving China’s high rate of economic growth. However, until recently, little or no attention has been given to the establishment of a social protection regime for migrant workers. This volume examines the ke...
This article utilizes firm level audited data from Shanghai in 2002 and 2003 to examine the extent to which employers shift the burden of compliance with social security obligations back to employees in the form of lower wages. Results from a fixed effects panel model using data on a subset of the firms audited in both years found that 18.9% of the...
Most extant research in the economics of crime literature has focused on explaining variations in crime rates. Public action to prevent crime, however, is often dependent on the level of concern about public safety that is expressed in public perceptions surveys. The economics of crime literature has largely overlooked responses to such surveys as...
Most extant research in the economics of crime literature has focused on explaining variations in crime rates. Public action to prevent crime, however, is often dependent on the level of concern about public security that is expressed in public perceptions surveys. The economics of crime literature has largely overlooked responses to such surveys a...
This article examines why firms in Shanghai comply or over-comply with social insurance obligations in a regulatory environment where the expected punishment for non-compliance is low. Our first finding is that firms found to be in non-compliance in the first audit in 2001 were moved into a separate violation category and the probability of being r...
Full citation:
Ingrid Nielsen, Jian Jian Li, Jie Shen and Russell Smyth, 2007, “Effects of Intergroup Contact of Chinese Off-farm Migrants' Attitudes to Local Workers. In George T. Solomon (Ed.), Proceedings of the Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (On CD Rom ISSN 1543-8643)
A revised, and longer, version of this paper appe...
Examination of citations contained in the written record of judicial decisions provides useful insights into the evolution of the jurisprudence and policy formation of particular courts and of the judges who make significant contributions to those courts. It also sheds light on the process of judicial innovation and on communication patterns betwee...
The problem of a shortage of migrant labor is a new development in China's coastal provinces. We discuss the reasons for this emerging phenomenon using a conceptual framework that extends the traditional Lewis dualistic labor market model to incorporate a migrant labor market. We emphasize that migrant labor shortage in China not only reflects a de...