Sharon Kaye Parker is an Australian academic and John Curtin Distinguished Professor in

organisational behaviour Organizational behavior or organisational behaviour (see American and British English spelling differences, spelling differences) is the "study of human behavior in organizational settings, the interface between human behavior and the organiza ...

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. Parker is best known for her research in the field of

work design Work design (also referred to as job design or task design) is an area of research and practice within industrial and organizational psychology, and is concerned with the "content and organization of one's work tasks, activities, relationships, a ...

, as well as other topics such as

proactivity Proactivity or proactive behavior refers to self-initiated behavior that endeavours to solve a problem before it has occurred. Proactive behavior involves acting in advance of a future situation, rather than reacting. It refers to taking control ...

mental health Mental health is often mistakenly equated with the absence of mental illness. However, mental health refers to a person's overall emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It influences how individuals think, feel, and behave, and how t ...

and

job performance Job performance assesses whether a person performs a job well. Job performance, studied academically as part of industrial and organizational psychology, also forms a part of human resources management. Performance is an important criterion for o ...

. She is a Fellow of the

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, a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology, and in 2016 received the

Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship The Australian Laureate Fellowship is an Australian professorial research fellowship awarded by the Australian Research Council. Fellows are chosen each year for five-year awards. In 2023 8 industry-focused Laureate Fellowships were awarded for the ...

. Parker's research has been cited over 28,000 times internationally and she has been recognised as one of the world's most influential scientists in the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list by

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, as well as the 2020 World's Top 2% Scientists list by

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. Parker is currently the Director of the Centre for Transformative Work Design within the Future of Work Institute at the Curtin Business School at

. Additionally, she is the Chief Investigator of the Organisations & Mature Workforce stream of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR). She has served on numerous editorial boards and is a former Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Annals and the

Journal of Applied Psychology The ''Journal of Applied Psychology'' is a monthly, peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association. The journal emphasizes the publication of original investigations that contribute new knowledge and understandin ...

. Parker is the co-founder of the Thrive at Work initiative designed to improve mental health at work. She has also published articles in the

Harvard Business Review ''Harvard Business Review'' (''HBR'') is a general management magazine published by Harvard Business Publishing, a not-for-profit, independent corporation that is an affiliate of Harvard Business School. ''HBR'' is published six times a year ...

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, and other practitioner outlets and has contributed to various government inquiries and policy reviews. Parker was the lead consultant on the national Good Work Design initiative, SafeWork Australia, and is a member of the National Mental Health Commission National Workplace initiative. She established the Women in Research initiative to support academic women.

Awards and honours

* 2013: Elected Fellow of the

Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) is a professional organization that promotes the "science, practice, and teaching" of industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology. SIOP is also known as Division 14 of the American ...

* 2014: Elected Fellow of the

Academy of Social Sciences in Australia The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) is an independent, non-governmental organisation devoted to the advancement of knowledge and research in the social sciences. It has its origins in the Social Science Research Council of Aus ...

* 2016:

Academy of Management An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the g ...

Organizational Behaviour Division Mentoring Award * 2016:

Australian Laureate Fellowship The Australian Laureate Fellowship is an Australian professorial research fellowship awarded by the Australian Research Council. Fellows are chosen each year for five-year awards. In 2023 8 industry-focused Laureate Fellowships were awarded for the ...

(Kathleen Fitzpatrick Award) *2019:

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Highly Cited Researcher 2019 (top 0.1% in the category of "Economics and Business") *2020: Ranked #119 in Stanford University's World's Top 2% Scientists List in the sub-area "Business and Management".

Notable publications

* Parker, S. K., Chmiel, N., & Wall, T. D. (1997). Work characteristics and employee well-being within a context of strategic downsizing. ''Journal of Occupational Health Psychology'', ''2''(4), 289. https://doi.org/10.1037/1076-8998.2.4.289 *Parker, S. K., Wall, T. D., & Jackson, P. R. (1997). “That's not my job”: Developing flexible employee work orientations. ''Academy of Management Journal'', ''40''(4), 899–929. https://doi.org/10.5465/256952 *Parker, S. K. (1998). Enhancing role breadth self-efficacy: The roles of job enrichment and other organizational interventions. ''Journal of Applied Psychology, 83''(6), 835–852. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.83.6.835 *Parker, S. K., & Wall, T. D. (1998). ''Job and work design: Organizing work to promote well-being and effectiveness''. Sage. * Parker, S. K., & Sprigg, C. A. (1999). Minimizing strain and maximizing learning: The role of job demands, job control, and proactive personality. ''Journal of Applied Psychology'', ''84''(6), 925. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.84.6.925 *Parker, S. K. (2000). From passive to proactive motivation: The importance of flexible role orientations and role breadth self‐efficacy. ''Applied Psychology'', ''49''(3), 447–469. https://doi.org/10.1111/1464-0597.00025 * Parker, S. K., & Axtell, C. M. (2001). Seeing another viewpoint: Antecedents and outcomes of employee perspective taking. ''Academy of Management Journal'', ''44''(6), 1085–1100. https://doi.org/10.5465/3069390 *Parker, S. K., Axtell, C. M., & Turner, N. (2001). Designing a safer workplace: Importance of job autonomy, communication quality, and supportive supervisors. ''Journal of Occupational Health Psychology'', ''6''(3), 211. https://doi.org/10.1037/1076-8998.6.3.211 *Parker, S. K., Wall, T. D., & Cordery, J. L. (2001). Future work design research and practice: Towards an elaborated model of work design. ''Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology'', ''74''(4), 413–440. https://doi.org/10.1348/096317901167460 *Parker, S. K., Griffin, M. A., Sprigg, C. A., & Wall, T. D. (2002). Effect of temporary contracts on perceived work characteristics and job strain: A longitudinal study. ''Personnel Psychology'', ''55''(3), 689–719. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6570.2002.tb00126.x *Parker, S. K. (2003). Longitudinal effects of lean production on employee outcomes and the mediating role of work characteristics. ''Journal of Applied Psychology, 88''(4), 620–634. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.88.4.620 * Parker, S. K., Williams, H. M., & Turner, N. (2006). Modeling the antecedents of proactive behavior at work. ''Journal of Applied Psychology'', ''91''(3), 636. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.91.3.636 * Parker, S. K., Bindl, U. K., & Strauss, K. (2010). Making things happen: A model of proactive motivation. ''Journal of Management'', ''36''(4), 827–856. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206310363732 *Parker, S. K. (2014). Beyond motivation: Job and work design for development, health, ambidexterity, and more. ''Annual Review of Psychology'', ''65''. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115208 * Parker, S. K., Morgeson, F. P., & Johns, G. (2017). One hundred years of work design research: Looking back and looking forward. ''Journal of Applied Psychology'', ''102''(3), 403. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000106 *Parker, S. K., Andrei, D. M., & Van den Broeck, A. (2019). Poor work design begets poor work design: Capacity and willingness antecedents of individual work design behavior. ''Journal of Applied Psychology, 104''(7), 907–928. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000383 *Parker, S. K., & Grote, G. (2020). Automation, algorithms, and beyond: Why work design matters more than ever in a digital world. ''Applied Psychology''. https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12241 *Parker, S. K., & Jorritsma, K. (2020). Good work design for all: Multiple pathways to making a difference. ''European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology'', 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2020.1860121 *Parker, S., Ward, M. K., & Fisher, G. (2021). Can High-Quality Jobs Help Workers Learn New Tricks? A Multi-Disciplinary Review of Work Design For Cognition. ''Academy of Management Annals''. https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2019.0057

References

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