Organisational & Occupational Health Improvement
Improving employee health, well-being and performance.
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Organisational and Occupational Health Improvement (OOHI) is a research group led by Dr. Lixin Jiang at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Our research focuses on how employees can use resources within their reach to improve their work performance, health, well-being, safety, work performance and proactivity, as well as prevent and attenuate the negative consequences of workplace stressors.
We also examine workplace interventions and demonstrate how evidence-based interventions can effectively improve employee and organizational outcomes.
Read more about our research programs on this site.
Who are we?
It’s nice to meet you! Click here to get to know our principle investigator, as well as our current and former students.
What do we do?
In the media.
When we’re not running workplace interventions or churning out journal articles, you can also find us leading the conversation on work-related issues in non-academic publications.
Read up on our latest pieces here.
Is job insecurity really the great motivator some managers believe it is? We crunched the numbers to find out.
Non-academic Article; Sep 12, 2022
Dr. Lixin Jiang questions the rhetoric that the fear of being fired can motivate employees to work harder. Using meta-analysis, she deconstructs and debunks this view held by top managers around the world. Read more about this here.
If You Live in an Area with High Income Inequality, You’re More Likely to Burn Out at Work
Non-academic Article; May 17, 2017
It’s known that job insecurity can lead to greater burnout, but how might this differ for people living in countries or states with varied levels of income equality? Our Dr. Lixin Jiang explores this: click here to read more.
Research: The More Essential Your Job Is to Your Company, the Happier You’ll Be
Non-academic Article; May 10, 2017
It’s never easy to choose between two strong, competing job offers. Our principle researcher, Dr. Lixin Jiang, argues that an important deciding factor may be how important one’s role is to the organisational mission. Read more about it here.
Want to contact us?
If you want to collaborate with us, seek our advice or participate in our research,
don’t hesitate to reach out.
We’d love to hear from you!