Sarah Louise Wright

University of Canterbury | UC · School of Business and Economics

Experiential teaching practices can provide transformative learning opportunities for students. However, thus far the experiential education literature considers “experiential activities” monolithically, without acknowledging differences in emotions, particularly negative emotions, students may experience or educator skill in facilitating them. We...

A core ethical value of many professions, especially those where power dynamics and potential for injury in practice exist, is minimising harm to those served. The same expectations, however, cannot be linked to the use of classroom-based experiential practices in management education settings. In this article, we explore ethical issues associated...

Very little is known on the subject of educators with Asperger’s syndrome (AS), and the available information pales in comparison to the enormous literature studying students with AS. While there are many resources for engaging students with AS, and increasing awareness of how AS affects student learning, discussions about the implications for teac...

Engaged learning opportunities have become powerful foundations upon which students build lifelong skills and organizational capacities. Research has empirically validated the long-term positive learning impacts of active and experiential learning opportunities for students. As such, institutional administrators and external stakeholders have encou...

While universities are intensely protective of revenue streams related to intellectual property interests for the institution and professors, the financial and legal interests of students in the entrepreneurial process have largely been overlooked. This lack of attention, both in universities and in the literature, is intriguing given the mushroomi...

Despite being part of a highly visible and important occupational group, blue-collar workers have, to date, been under-represented in careers research. We explore the relevance and applicability of new career concepts to blue-collar employees, specifically, bus drivers. Based on a survey of 112 bus drivers, we test a model specifying the relationsh...

AimThe aim of this article was to report on the analysis of qualitative, open text data, received from a national on-line survey of what factors Generation Y New Zealand Registered Nurses wish to change about nursing and consideration of the potential policy and practice impacts of these requests on their retention.Background Prior to the economic...

The purpose of this chapter is to explore loneliness as a property of the organisation. Studies on the nature and dynamics of workplace loneliness are discussed and interventions to address workplace loneliness are offered. Loneliness is a subjective experience and results from the psychological discomfort associated with perceived inadequacy of in...

Purpose Past research has found meaningful differences between job and organisational engagement. However, research to date has mainly focused on job engagement, whereas the construct of organisational engagement has been largely neglected. The purpose of this study was to investigate the antecedents of organisational engagement and its influence o...

Purpose In recent years, the literature on person‐environment fit as a sought‐after outcome has burgeoned whereas misfit has been relatively neglected. Specifically, little research has investigated how people develop and maintain perceptions of not fitting in. The aim of this paper is to review past research on misfit, and present new data examini...

Loneliness is often assumed to be an occupational hazard for senior-ranked members of an organization. However, most of what researchers hear about being "lonely at the top" is anecdote. This article provides empirical evidence from three separate studies assessing loneliness in managers and nonmanagers. Across all three studies, loneliness did not...

In 2003 the New Zealand Fire Service (NZFS) adopted a competency-based recruitment programme to select trainee firefighters. The current study measured the effectiveness of the selection tests against new recruits' performance on the job. This report presents the results of the study and discusses potential improvements in the way firefighter appli...

An exploration into the ways in which friendships, isolation and enemy-ships influence and affect our experience of work. The theme of the research volume is 'Alienation to Suffocation'; canvassing issues from loneliness and isolation through to the positive aspects of a friendly workplace.

Jo is the practice manager at a small accounting firm. She has been the cause of a great deal of trouble in the past few years. Several secretarial staffresigned primarily because of her bullying, political and self-interested behaviour.

In spite of a long history, Industrial and Organisational (I/O) psychology appears to be relatively unknown beyond those who teach or practise it. Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand is reviewed to illustrate common problems. To provide an update on the local situation, a survey of 46 I/O ps...

From 0.1% of the total population in 1945 to 6.9% in 2006, Pacific peoples now resident in New Zealand highlight significant health policy and service delivery issues within an increasingly diverse society. Over the last decade, marked differences in the health status of Pacific New Zealanders and Palagi New Zealanders have been well documented, sh...

Loneliness research tends to focus on personal characteristics as the primary determinant of the experience, and largely ignores the workplace as a trigger. A theoretical model of loneliness at work was developed, taking into account both personality and organisational factors. 363 employees from diverse occupational backgrounds participated in the...

This paper describes the conceptual development and validation of a scale to measure loneliness in the workplace. Despite extensive literature on loneliness and the measurement of the phenomenon, the issue of assessing worker loneliness is not well researched. A 16-item self-report loneliness scale was developed for intended use in the workplace. T...

This chapter investigates the relationship between organizational climate, social support, and loneliness in the workplace. Data were collected from 362 employees from various occupational groups. Regression analyses presented support for predicted links between community spirit at work, a climate of fear in an organization, work-based support from...

Loneliness in the workplace has received relatively little attention in the literature. The research surrounding loneliness tends to focus almost exclusively on personal characteristics as the primary determinant of the experience, and largely ignores the workplace as a potential trigger of loneliness. As such, personality tends to be overestimated...

This study examined the relationships between leadership style, loneliness and stress in a sample of 293 New Zealand primary school principals, which represented a response rate of 58 percent. A large number of principals were categorized using the Maslach Burnout Inventory as experiencing stress and a high level of emotional exhaustion. Leadership...

The public sector in New Zealand has experienced, and continues to experience a myriad of internal and external pressures affecting their ability to retain skilled staff. Increasing legislative changes, closer monitoring of organization performance, and the inability to match commercial remuneration combined with the increasing demand for high-skil...

Online hosted by Coventry University and The Open University in the UK Employees perform better, are healthier, happier, and stay longer in environments in which they fit (Kristof-Brown, Zimmerman, & Johnson, 2005). In line with this, organizations wish to improve fit, and research has typically assessed the influence of organizational recruitment...