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Conference Topics
The Best Practices Evaluation and the Student Research competitions are broad in their substantive bases in that they both address one or more of the conference topics relevant to Occupational Health Psychology, including:
- Best Practices in Creating Healthy Workplaces: Organizational, individual, and multilevel interventions; Policy and legislative developments; Organizational learning; Corporate social responsibility; Program evaluation studies; Model programs; Practitioner Tool-kits; Evidence-based practice.
- Collaborative and Participatory Approaches: Labor-management initiatives; Government-Labor-Business-University-Community partnerships; National and international collaborations.
- Engaging Small Business and Self-employed Workers: Engaging small businesses in health and safety research; Disseminating information to small businesses; Special safety and health concerns; Legal issues; Special issues faced by self-employed workers.
- Minority and Immigrant Workers: Differential exposures and susceptibilities; Health and safety disparities; Race/ethnicity-related stressors (e.g., discrimination); Stress and immigrant status.
- Workplace Diversity and Discrimination: Workplace multiculturalism; Culturally-tailored prevention and intervention programs; Discrimination (e.g., Gender, Age, Race/Ethnicity, Disability); Cultural competencies; Diversity programs; Sexual harassment.
- Workplace Violence: Violence by customers, clients, patients, coworkers, etc.; Incivility; Violence prevention programs; Personal and organizational responses; Characteristics of perpetrators and victims.
- Changing Employment Arrangements: Contract and temporary work; Self-employment; Underemployment; Job insecurity; Worker alienation; Psychological contracts; Retirement.
- Compensation and Benefits: Health, pension, and other benefits; FMLA issues, Disability benefits; Pay equity and discrimination; Workers’ compensation programs; Return to work; Job accommodations.
- Work Schedules and Flexible Work Arrangements: Shift work; Overtime/extended hours of work; Flexible/compressed schedules; Schedule design; Telecommuting; Part-time work; Job sharing.
- Work-Family Integration: Dependent care; Work-family balance; Formal and informal family supports; Positive and negative spillover; Work-family conflict; Crossover.
- Work Design and Worker Health: Increased work pace; Lean production; Downsizing and resizing; Globalization; Outsourcing; Continuous improvement; Process engineering; Emerging technologies; Job and task design.
- Worker Control and Working Conditions: Worker control and stress; Work pace and work overload; Physical demands; Group dynamics; Organizational climate and culture; Supervision and leadership; Participative programs.
- High Risk Jobs and Populations: Younger and older workers; Lower income workers; High risk occupations (e.g., agriculture, construction, emergency responders, health care, manufacturing, military, mining, transportation).
- Traumatic Stress and Resilience for Workers in Hazardous Occupations and Disaster Relief Operations: Strategies for assessment, prevention, mitigation and treatment of traumatic stress; Assessing constructs of resilience applied to behavior and decision-making under duress.
- Psychological and Biological Effects of Job Stress: Depression and stress; Musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and immune system function; Women’s health concerns; Obesity; Alcohol and substance abuse; Physiological and psychological pathways to health outcomes.
- Sleep, Fatigue, and Work: Effects of work schedules on sleep; Sleep disorders and medications; Health and productivity implications of sleep disruptions.
- Aging and Work Stress: Job design for aging workers; Work capabilities and limitations; Attitudes toward aging workers; Implications of an aging workforce; Job retention and retraining; Disability management and accommodations; Health benefit implications.
- Health Services and Health and Productivity Management: Health promotion; EAPs; Vocational rehabilitation; Career and work adjustment counseling; Return to work; Presenteeism; Absenteeism; Disability management; Stress management; Integrated prevention models.
- Building a Business Case for Workplace Safety & Health: Social and economic costs of safety and health; Stress effects on performance, retention, and withdrawal; Productivity costs of poor workplace health and design.
- Safety Climate, Management, & Training: Management commitment to safety; Safety motivation and leadership; Errors, near-misses, and micro-accidents; Hazard identification and elimination; Barriers to eliminating or mitigating workplace hazards.
- Professional and Educational Development: Graduate and undergraduate training in Occupational Health Psychology; Teaching innovations; Employee training programs; Career development programs.
- Theoretical and Conceptual Issues in Job Stress: Personal, organizational, and cultural antecedents of stress; Moderators of stress-outcome relationships; Measurement of stress; Theoretical developments.
- Research Methodology: Innovative research designs; Mixed-method research; Multidisciplinary research; Measure development; Case studies; Econometric analysis; Culturally-competent methods.
- Improving Intervention Methods and Processes: Field intervention design; Engaging organizations in safety and health issues; Barriers to safety and health initiatives; Gaining access to organizations; Disseminating research findings to organizations.
- National and International Surveillance (Tracking): Hazard surveillance strategies, methods, and programs; Surveillance of stress and health; Current trends.
- Emerging Risks, Opportunities, and Issues in Work, Stress, and Health
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