Conference Topics
The 2021 Asia Pacific Academy virtual conference will explore a variety of topics including:
This event allows researchers and industry representatives to come together and discuss the latest developments in theory and practice. The program will include presentations from academics as well as workshops, symposium. By attending this conference, you will have the chance to develop your knowledge about psychosocial factors at work; past, current and future perspectives. We look forward to welcoming you to the conference.
For more information, updates and useful links, please visit our website:
https://www.apapfaw.org
- Effects of COVID on workplace conditions
- Future work and psychosocial factors
- Psychosocial factors at work and their relationship with productivity and health
- Psychosocial factors at work in developing countries
- Integrative and interdisciplinary approaches
- Best practice psychosocial risk prevention and hazard management strategies, interventions and evaluation
- Job strain and cardiovascular disease
- Organisational factors that promote positive wellbeing
- Managing workers with chronic health disorders and mental health issues
- Focus on industries/occupations at risk e.g. health workers
- Influence of macro-level factors and social inequality on worker health
- Critical work psychology (the constraints of the work psychology paradigm)
- Economic and productivity benefits of psychological safety at work
- Multilevel work stress theories and research
- National and international comparative work
- Fatigue management at the workplace
- Virtual workplace
- Gig economy
- Workplace bullying and harassment
- Insecure work, retrenchment, precarious employment, work-life balance.
- Mindfulness: Building mental resilience in the workplace
- Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP)
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), resilience
- Managing workers with mental illness
- Preventive measures on fatigue management
- Employee engagement/ productivity
- Work climate and productivity
- Absenteeism and Presenteeism
- Policies and regulation
- Inclusivity for women, contract employees, physically challenged, and mentally-ill workforce
- Retaliation and resistance at the workplace
This event allows researchers and industry representatives to come together and discuss the latest developments in theory and practice. The program will include presentations from academics as well as workshops, symposium. By attending this conference, you will have the chance to develop your knowledge about psychosocial factors at work; past, current and future perspectives. We look forward to welcoming you to the conference.
For more information, updates and useful links, please visit our website:
https://www.apapfaw.org
