Dr Kïrsten Way is an Associate Professor and Program Director at the Centre for Business and Organisational Psychology at UQ where she conducts research on safety regulation, work-related mental health, work design, human factors, and occupational health. Her work focusses on psychosocial hazards both systemically and focally (investigating specific hazards such as conflict, bullying, fatigue, and sexual harassment). Dr. Way is an Organisational Psychologist, Occupational Therapist and Certified Professional Ergonomist. She has significant industry expertise having worked as the Director of a private consultancy specialising in WHS and organisational psychology and having held positions for Australian and UK WHS regulatory authorities, including Principal Inspector (Ergonomics), Manager Psychosocial Strategy Unit, and Manager WHS Policy Branch. She has provided expertise to the Australian and UK Governments and, for example, has assisted in the development of the Safe Work Australia Handbook Principles of Good Work Design, NSW’s Mentally Healthy Workplaces Benchmarking Tool and The Mentally Healthy Workplaces Strategy 2018-2022, as well as numerous WHS jurisdictions’ Psychosocial Regulations and Managing the Risk of Psychosocial Hazards at Work Codes of Practice.
Journal Article: Need for Recovery among Site-Based Construction Practitioners in Australia: A Latent Class Analysis and Multinomial Logistic Regression
Sun, Chenjunyan, Hon, Carol K. H., Way, Kïrsten A., Jimmieson, Nerina L. and Xia, Bo (2024). Need for Recovery among Site-Based Construction Practitioners in Australia: A Latent Class Analysis and Multinomial Logistic Regression. Journal of Management in Engineering, 40 (1) 04023048. doi: 10.1061/jmenea.meeng-5594
Hodroj, Batoul, Way, Kïrsten Agnes, Scott, Theresa L., Wright, April L. and Manchha, Asmita (2023). Does context count? The association between quality of care and job characteristics in residential aged care and hospital settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Gerontologist, 63 (6), 1012-1027. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnac039
Journal Article: Reconceptualizing stigmas in aged care: a typology of stigmatizing discourses in the aged-care context
Manchha, Asmita V., Tann, Ken, Way, Kïrsten A. and Thai, Michael (2023). Reconceptualizing stigmas in aged care: a typology of stigmatizing discourses in the aged-care context. The Gerontologist, 63 (6), 1000-1011. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnac192
Behavioural Psychosocial Hazards in the Mining Industry
(2023–2024) The Minerals Council of Australia
Evaluation of Comcare's Pilot Psychosocial Proactive Inspection Program
(2023–2024) Commonwealth Comcare
'We Need This': Capacity building in Brothels in managing psychosocial hazards
(2023) UQ Knowledge Exchange & Translation Fund
Managing ethical transgressions in military personnel in novel situations: a tame solution to a wicked problem?
Doctor Philosophy
Exploring the role of institutional and work design factors on the facilitation of anomie in residential aged care
Doctor Philosophy
The Regulation of Psychosocial Hazards in Australian Workplaces.
Doctor Philosophy
Caponecchia, C. and Way, K. A. (2021). Bullying and Violence. The Core Body of Knowledge for the Generalist OHS Professionals. (pp. 1-38) edited by Pryor, P.. Gladstone Park, VIC Australia: Australian Institute of Health and Safety.
Way, Kïrsten (2020). Psychosocial hazards. The core body of knowledge for generalist OHS professionals . (pp. 1-50) Tullamarine, VIC, Australia: Australian Institute of Health and Safety.
Occupational Health Psychology
Parker, Stacey L., Jimmieson, Nerina L. and Way, Kirsten A. (2013). Occupational Health Psychology. Organisational Psychology: Research and Professional Practice. (pp. 219-242) edited by Sarris, Aspa and Kirby, Neil. Prahran VIC Australia: Tilde Publishing and Distribution.
Psychosocial Hazards and Occupational Health
Way, Kirsten A. (2012). Psychosocial Hazards and Occupational Health. The Core Body of Knowledge for Generalist OHS Professionals. (pp. 1-45) Victoria, Australia: SIA.
Psychosocial hazards: Bullying, Aggression and Violence
Way, Kirsten A. (2012). Psychosocial hazards: Bullying, Aggression and Violence. The Core Body of Knowledge for Generalist OHS Professionals. (pp. 1-45) Victoria, Australia: SIA.
An integrative framework of supervisor responses to workgroup conflict
Way, Kirsten, Jimmieson, Nerina L. and Bordia, Prashant (2011). An integrative framework of supervisor responses to workgroup conflict. New directions in organizational psychology and behavioral medicine. (pp. 191-219) edited by Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou and Cary Cooper. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Gower.
An integrative framework of supervisor responses to workgroup conflict
Way, Kïrsten, Jimmieson, Nerina L. and Bordia, Prashant (2011). An integrative framework of supervisor responses to workgroup conflict. New directions in organizational psychology and behavioral medicine. (pp. 191-220) edited by Cary Cooper. Farnham, United Kingdom: Gower.
Sun, Chenjunyan, Hon, Carol K. H., Way, Kïrsten A., Jimmieson, Nerina L. and Xia, Bo (2024). Need for Recovery among Site-Based Construction Practitioners in Australia: A Latent Class Analysis and Multinomial Logistic Regression. Journal of Management in Engineering, 40 (1) 04023048. doi: 10.1061/jmenea.meeng-5594
Hodroj, Batoul, Way, Kïrsten Agnes, Scott, Theresa L., Wright, April L. and Manchha, Asmita (2023). Does context count? The association between quality of care and job characteristics in residential aged care and hospital settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Gerontologist, 63 (6), 1012-1027. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnac039
Manchha, Asmita V., Tann, Ken, Way, Kïrsten A. and Thai, Michael (2023). Reconceptualizing stigmas in aged care: a typology of stigmatizing discourses in the aged-care context. The Gerontologist, 63 (6), 1000-1011. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnac192
Sun, Chenjunyan, Hon, Carol K. H., Way, Kïrsten A., Jimmieson, Nerina L., Xia, Bo and Wu, Paul Pao-Yen (2023). A Bayesian network model for the impacts of psychosocial hazards on the mental health of site-based construction practitioners. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 149 (3) 04022184, 1-14. doi: 10.1061/jcemd4.coeng-12905
Way, Kïrsten A., Jimmieson, Nerina L., Manchha, Asmita and D’allura, Louise (2023). Shared perceptions of fatigue management in workgroups: a cross-level moderator of the negative impact of work spillover on custodial officer outcomes. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 50 (4), 009385482211435-577. doi: 10.1177/00938548221143532
Hon, Carol K.H., Sun, Chenjunyan, Way, Kïrsten A., Jimmieson, Nerina L., Xia, Bo and Biggs, Herbert C. (2023). Psychosocial hazards affecting mental health in the construction industry: a qualitative study in Australia. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management. doi: 10.1108/ECAM-07-2022-0617
Manchha, Asmita V., Way, Kïrsten A., Thai, Michael and Tann, Ken (2023). “The Stigma is what you do”: Examining the relationship between occupational stigma and worker outcomes in the aged care context. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 42 (2), 221-230. doi: 10.1177/07334648221129849
Manchha, Asmita V., Way, Kïrsten A., Tann, Ken and Thai, Michael (2022). The social construction of stigma in aged-care work: implications for health professionals’ work intentions. The Gerontologist, 62 (7), 994-1005. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnac002
Madigan, Cassandra, Way, Kirsten A., Johnstone, Kelly and Capra, Mike (2022). Differences between managers’ and safety professionals’ perceptions of upwards influence attempts within safety practice. Journal of Safety Research, 81, 203-215. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2022.02.012
Sun, Chenjunyan, Hon, Carol K.H., Way, Kïrsten A., Jimmieson, Nerina L. and Xia, Bo (2022). The relationship between psychosocial hazards and mental health in the construction industry: a meta-analysis. Safety Science, 145 105485, 105485. doi: 10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105485
How do safety professionals’ influence managers within organizations? – a critical incident approach
Madigan, Cassandra, Johnstone, Kelly, Way, Kïrsten A. and Capra, Mike (2021). How do safety professionals’ influence managers within organizations? – a critical incident approach. Safety Science, 144 105478, 105478. doi: 10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105478
A comparative analysis of Inspector responses to complaints about psychosocial and physical hazards
Popple, Sam, Way, Kïrsten, Johnstone, Richard, Croucher, Richard and Miller, Peta (2021). A comparative analysis of Inspector responses to complaints about psychosocial and physical hazards. Regulation and Governance, 17 (1), 234-249. doi: 10.1111/rego.12447
Applications of Bayesian approaches in construction management research: a systematic review
Hon, Carol K.H., Sun, Chenjunyan, Xia, Bo, Jimmieson, Nerina L., Way, Kïrsten A. and Wu, Paul Pao-Yen (2021). Applications of Bayesian approaches in construction management research: a systematic review. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 2153-2182. doi: 10.1108/ecam-10-2020-0817
Manchha, Asmita V., Walker, Nicole, Way, Kïrsten A., Dawson, Danielle, Tann, Ken and Thai, Michael (2020). Deeply discrediting: a systematic review examining the conceptualizations and consequences of the stigma of working in aged care. The Gerontologist, 61 (4), e129-e146. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnaa166
Way, Kïrsten A., Burrell, Lisa, D’Allura, Louise and Ashford-Rowe, Kevin (2020). Empirical investigation of authentic assessment theory: An application in online courses using mimetic simulation created in university learning management ecosystems. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 46 (1), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/02602938.2020.1740647
Influencing organizational decision-makers – what influence tactics are OHS professionals using?
Madigan, Cassandra, Way, Kïrsten, Capra, Mike and Johnstone, Kelly (2020). Influencing organizational decision-makers – what influence tactics are OHS professionals using?. Safety Science, 121, 496-506. doi: 10.1016/j.ssci.2019.09.028
Way, Kirsten A., Jimmieson, Nerina J. and Bordia, Prashant (2019). Supervisor conflict management climate and emotion recognition skills: implications for collective employee burnout. International Journal of Conflict Management, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 559-580. doi: 10.1108/ijcma-03-2019-0054
Way, Kirsten, Kannis-Dymand, Lee, Lastella, Michele and Lovell, Geoff P. (2018). Mental health practitioners’ reported barriers to prescription of exercise for mental health consumers. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 14, 52-60. doi: 10.1016/j.mhpa.2018.01.001
Way, Kirsten A., Jimmieson, Nerina L. and Bordia, Prashant (2016). Shared perceptions of supervisor conflict management style: a cross-level moderator of relationship conflict and employee outcomes. International Journal of Conflict Management, 27 (1), 25-49. doi: 10.1108/IJCMA-07-2014-0046
Supervisor competencies for supporting return to work: a mixed-methods study
Johnston, Venerina, Way, Kirsten, Long, Maryann H., Wyatt, Mary, Gibson, Libby and Shaw, William S. (2015). Supervisor competencies for supporting return to work: a mixed-methods study. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 25 (1), 3-17. doi: 10.1007/s10926-014-9511-z
Supervisor conflict management, justice, and strain: multilevel relationships
Way, Kristen A., Jimmieson, Nerina L. and Bordia, Prashant (2014). Supervisor conflict management, justice, and strain: multilevel relationships. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 29 (8), 1044-1063. doi: 10.1108/JMP-04-2012-0120
Way, Kïrsten A., Jimmieson, Nerina L., Bordia, Prashant and Hepworth, Graham (2013). Self-labelling versus behavioural experience of workplace bullying: differences in sector- and industry-level prevalence and sources. Journal of Health Safety and Environment, 29 (2) 29-221, 83-102.
Graves, Rod J., Way, Kïrsten, Riley, David, Lawton, Clare and Morris, Len (2004). Development of risk filter and risk assessment worksheets for HSE guidance - 'Upper limb disorders in the workplace' 2002. Applied Ergonomics, 35 (5), 475-484. doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2004.03.011
Manchha, Asmita, Way, Kirsten, Tann, Ken and Thai, Michael (2023). Planning for the Aged Care Workforce of the Future- Implications of Stigma on Health Professionals’ Intentions to Work in Aged Care. Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Meeting, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 10-12 May 2023.
Choosing to challenge occupational stigma: implications for workers’ mental health
Manchha, A., Tann, K., Way, K. and Thai, M. (2022). Choosing to challenge occupational stigma: implications for workers’ mental health. 35th ANZAM Conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 5-7 December 2022. Gold Coast, QLD Australia:
Understanding stigma in the context of working in aged care.
Manchha, Asmita, Way, Kirsten, Tann, Ken and Thai, Michael (2022). Understanding stigma in the context of working in aged care.. National Conference of Emerging Researchers in Ageing, Online, 10 November 2022.
Stigmatising discourses in the context of the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care
Manchha, Asmita, Tann, Ken, Way, Kirsten and Thai, Michael (2022). Stigmatising discourses in the context of the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care. Australian Association of Gerontology conference, Online, November 2022.
Understanding internalised stigma in aged care workers: negative psychological and job outcomes
Manchha, Asmita, Way, Kirsten, Tann, Ken and Thai, Michael (2022). Understanding internalised stigma in aged care workers: negative psychological and job outcomes. Australian Association of Gerontology conference, Adelaide, SA Australia, November 2022.
Discursive responses to countering stigmatizing discourses about aged care and worker outcomes
Manchha, A. V., Tann, K., Way, K. A. and Thai, M. (2022). Discursive responses to countering stigmatizing discourses about aged care and worker outcomes. EGOS Colloquium, Vienna, Austria, 7-9 July 2022. Vienna, Austria:
Evaluating the need for recovery from work for site-based construction practitioners in Australia
Sun, C., Hon, C. K.H., Jimmieson, N. L., Way, K. A. and Xia, B. (2022). Evaluating the need for recovery from work for site-based construction practitioners in Australia. World Building Congress 2022, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 26-30 June 2022. Bristol, United Kingdom: Institute of Physics. doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/1101/3/032036
Exploring barriers and enablers of work ability among older workers – a qualitative approach
Bontrup, Carolin, Johnston, Venerina, O'Leary, Shaun and Way, Kirsten (2022). Exploring barriers and enablers of work ability among older workers – a qualitative approach. 33rd International Congress on Occupational Health 2022 (ICOH 2022), Online, 6–10 February 2022. Incheon, Republic of Korea: Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute. doi: 10.1016/j.shaw.2021.12.1049
Manchha, Asmita, Tann, Ken, Way, Kirsten and Thai, Michael (2021). Understanding stigmatising discourses in aged care: applying linguistics to the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care. Australian Systematic Functional Linguistics Association, Brisbane, QLD Australia, September 2021.
Manchha, Asmita, Way, Kirsten, Tann, Ken and Thai, Michael (2021). Social construction of the stigma of working in aged care in the context of COVID-19: implications for health professionals’ work intentions. European Group for Organizational Studies, Online, July 2021.
Hodroj, Batoul, Way, Kirsten, Scott, Theresa, Wright, April and Manchha, Asmita (2021). A meta-analysis of work factors impacting quality of care and counterproductive work behaviours in residential aged care and hospitals.. 54th Australian Association of Gerontology Conference, Sydney, Australia, 9-12 November 2021.
Manchha, Asmita, Walker, Nicole, Way, Kirsten, Tann, Ken, Thai, Michael and Dissanayaka, Nadeeka (2020). So you work in aged care…‘oh’ An exploratory study of social evaluations and the stigmatization of aged care workers. European Group for Organizational Studies, Online, 2-4 July 2020.
Creating authenticity in online learning and assessment: the use of emotion in mimetic simulation
Way, Kirsten A., Burrell, Lisa, D'Allura, Louise and Ashford-Rowe, Kevin (2019). Creating authenticity in online learning and assessment: the use of emotion in mimetic simulation. 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, MA United States, 9-13 August 2019. Briarcliff Manor, NY United States: Academy of Management. doi: 10.5465/ambpp.2019.11634abstract
Way, K.A., Jimmieson, N. L., Bordia, P. and Hobman, E. V. (2010). Development of a psychosocial risk assessment tool to aid compliance with health and safety legislation: The people at work project. 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 11-16 July, 2010.
The role of supervisors in managing workgroup conflict: Implications for employee adjustment
Way, K. A., Jimmieson, N. L. and Bordia, P. (2010). The role of supervisors in managing workgroup conflict: Implications for employee adjustment. 70th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada, 6 - 10 August 2010.
Horberry, T. , Harris, J. , Way, K. , Hill, A. , Lim, N. , Dodshon, P. , Lee, J. and Cliff, D. (2023). Fatigue management in the Queensland mining industry and its relationship with mental health: final report to Office of the Commissioner Resources Safety and Health. Brisbane, Australia: Queensland Government.
Knox, Sally, Way, Kïrsten and Haslam, Alex (2022). Are identity leadership and shared social identity associated with the highly reliable behaviour of military personnel? Protocol for a systematic review. Middletown, DE, United States.: INPLASY - International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols. doi: 10.37766/inplasy2022.5.0063
Multi-level effects of supervisor third-party responses to workgroup conflict on employee strain
Way, Kirsten (2013). Multi-level effects of supervisor third-party responses to workgroup conflict on employee strain. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland.
Behavioural Psychosocial Hazards in the Mining Industry
(2023–2024) The Minerals Council of Australia
Evaluation of Comcare's Pilot Psychosocial Proactive Inspection Program
(2023–2024) Commonwealth Comcare
'We Need This': Capacity building in Brothels in managing psychosocial hazards
(2023) UQ Knowledge Exchange & Translation Fund
(2022–2023) Curtin University
(2021–2023) Office Ergonomics Research Committee Funding
Human aspects of automation in mining (101BMAHF)
(2020–2022) BM Alliance Coal Operations Pty Limited
OIR Safety Culture Research Consortium
(2020) Griffith University
Note for students: Dr Kirsten Way is not currently available to take on new students.
Managing ethical transgressions in military personnel in novel situations: a tame solution to a wicked problem?
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Exploring the role of institutional and work design factors on the facilitation of anomie in residential aged care
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
The Regulation of Psychosocial Hazards in Australian Workplaces.
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Advancing the conceptualisation and operationalisation of workability in later career workers
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Deeply discrediting: The stigma of working in aged care
(2022) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
(2023) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
(2022) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
(2022) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors: