Professor Margaret Vickers

Professor Margaret Vickers

PROFESSOR,
Management (SoBus)

Personal

Qualifications

  • MBA University of Technology, Sydney
  • BBus University of Western Sydney,Nepean
  • PhD University of Western Sydney

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Management (SoBus)

Contact

Email:M.Vickers@uws.edu.au
Extension:9661
Mobile:0418445315
Location:EQ.G.44
Parramatta
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Publications

Books

  • Vickers, M. (2006), 'Working and Caring for a Child with Chronic Illness: Disconnected and Doing It All', : Palgrave Macmillan Ltd 1403997675.
  • Vickers, M. (2001), 'Work and Unseen Chronic Illness: Silent Voices', : Routledge 0415243475.

Chapters in Books

  • Vickers, M. (2012), 'For 'the greater good' : exposing the parodhy of necessary evil - examplars from organizational life', The Foundations of Organizational Evil, M. E. Sharpe 9780765625588.
  • Parris, M. and Vickers, M. (2009), 'Provision of Outplacement Services During Redundancy: Lessons from Australian Executives', The 2009 Pfeiffer Annual: Management Development, Preiffer: A Wiley Imprint 9780470371466.
  • Vickers, M. (2009), 'Why People with Disabilities Might Really Be Leaving Work: An Exemplar Case with Lessons for Managers', The 2009 Pfeiffer Annual: Management Development, Pfeiffer: A Wiley Imprint 9780470371466.
  • Vickers, M. (2007), 'Workplace Incivility', International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, Sage 9781412915151.
  • Vickers, M. (2007), 'Violence', International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, Sage 9781412915151.
  • Vickers, M. and Parris, M. (2006), 'Telling it How it Really Is?: Life in Organisations Revealed Using Heideggerian Phenomenology', The 2006 Pfeiffer Annual: Human Resource Management, Pfeiffer: A Wiley Imprint 0787978248.

Journal Articles

  • McDonald, G., Mcdonald, G, G., Jackson, D, D., Jackson, D., Wilkes, L, L., Wilkes, L., Vickers, M. and Vickers, M, M. (2012), 'A work-based educational intervention to support the development of personal resilience in nurses and midwives', Nurse Education Today, 7.
  • Trajkovski, S., Schmied, V., Vickers, M., Vickers, M. and Jackson, D. (2012), 'Neonatal nurses' perspectives of family-centred care: a qualitative study.', Journal of Clinical Nursing, 11.
  • McDonald, G., Jackson, D., Wilkes, L. and Vickers, M. (2012), 'A work-based educational intervention to support the development of personal resilience in nurses and midwives', Nurse Education Today, 7.
  • Trajkovski, S., Schmied, V., Vickers, M. and Jackson, D. (2012), 'Neonatal nurses' perspectives of family-centred care : a qualitative study', Journal of Clinical Nursing, 11.
  • Vickers, M. (2012), 'Financial turning points and transitions for people with multiple sclerosis : towards sustainable employment outcomes', Journal of Management and Organization, 17.
  • Vickers, M. (2012), '"For the crime of being different..." : multiple sclerosis, teams, and stigmatisation at work : lessons from a case study', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 19.
  • Vickers, M. (2012), 'Antenarratives to inform health care research : exploring workplace illness disclosure for people with multiple sclerosis (MS)', Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, 37.
  • Vickers, M. (2012), 'A rhetorical portrayal of the sham face of organizational support : toward a new face of support for public administration workers', Administrative Theory & Praxis, 24.
  • Vickers, M. (2011), 'Taking a compassionate turn for workers with multiple sclerosis (MS): Towards the facilitation of management learning', Management Learning, 17.
  • George, A., Vickers, M., Wilkes, L. and Barton, B. (2011), 'Financial implications of working full time and caring for a child with a chronic illness', Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 10.
  • Vickers, M. (2011), 'Bullying Targets as Social Performers in the Public Administration Workplace', Administrative Theory & Praxis, 22.
  • Vickers, M. (2011), 'Book Review: Rethinking Geographies of Disability', Journal of Health and Human Services Adminstration, 9.
  • Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M., Jackson, D. and Wilkes, L. (2010), 'Bullying as circuits of power: An Australian nursing perspective', Administrative, Theory and Praxis, 23.
  • Vickers, M. (2010), 'Symposium: Bullying, mobbing and violence in organizational life', Administrative Theory & Praxis, 18.
  • Rhodes, C., Pullen, A., Vickers, M., Clegg, S. and Pitsis, A. (2010), 'Violence and workplace bullying: What are an organizations ethical responsibilities?', Administrative Theory and Praxis, 20.
  • Hutchinson, M., Wilkes, L., Jackson, D. and Vickers, M. (2010), 'Integrating individual, work group and organizational factors: testing a multidimensional model of bullying in the nursing workplace', Journal of Nursing Management, 9.
  • Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M., Wilkes, L. and Jackson, D. (2010), 'A typology of bullying behaviours: the experiences of Australian nurses', Journal of Clinical Nursing, 10.
  • Mcdonald, G., Vickers, M., Mohan, S., Wilkes, L. and Jackson, D. (2010), 'Workplace conversations: Building and maintaining collaborative capital', Advances in Contemporary Nursing, 10.
  • Parris, M. and Vickers, M. (2010), '"Look at Him ... He's Failing": Male Executives' Experiences of Redundancy', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 3.
  • Vickers, M. and Parris, M. (2010), 'Layoffs: Australian Executives Speak of Being Disposed of', Organizational Dynamics, 7.
  • McDonald, G., Mohan, S., Jackson, D., Vickers, M. and Wilkes, L. (2010), 'Continuing connections: the experiences of retired and senior working nurse mentors', Journal of Clinical Nursing, 8.
  • Vickers, M. (2010), 'From the Editor-in-Chief's Desk: Returning to the Quest for Critical Reflection', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 4.
  • Vickers, M. (2010), 'From the Editor-in-Chief's Desk: The Value of Reflexivity', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 3.
  • Vickers, M. (2010), 'From the Editor-in-Chief's Desk: Feelings, work and beautiful theory: Toward engaging the hearts and minds of employees and employers', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 3.
  • Vickers, M. (2010), 'From the Editor-in-Chief's desk: Continuing the discussion on sustainability and work.', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 4.
  • Vickers, M. (2010), 'The Creation of Fiction to Share Other Truths and Different Viewpoints: A Creative Journey and an Interpetive Process', Qualitative Inquiry, 10.
  • Vickers, M. (2010), 'Illness Onset as Status Passage for People with Multiple Sclerosis (MS)', Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, 35.
  • Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M., Wilkes, L. and Jackson, D. (2009), 'The worse you behave the more you seem to be rewarded: Bullying in nursing as organizational corruption', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 17.
  • Vickers, M. (2009), 'From the Editor-in-Chief's Desk: Job Los as Status Passage for Workers during Recession -- Advocating a "Compassionate Turn"', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 6.
  • Vickers, M. (2009), 'From the Editor-in-Chief's Desk: Better than Sex? Hooked on Work -- at the Toxic Workplace', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 4.
  • Vickers, M. (2009), 'From the Editor-in-Chief's Desk: The "Workplace-During-Recession" Reminding Us of Employee Rights and Responsibilities', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 4.
  • Vickers, M. (2009), 'Journeys Into Grief: Exploring Redundancy for a New Understanding of Workplace Grief', Journal of Loss and Trauma, 19.
  • Vickers, M. (2009), 'Life and Work with Multiple Sclerosis (MS): The Role of Unseen Experiential Phenomena on Unreliable Bodies and Uncertain Lives', Illness, Crisis & Loss, 15.
  • Vickers, M. (2009), 'Bullying, disability and work: A case study of workplace bullying', Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, 18.
  • Hutchinson, M., Jackson, D., Wilkes, L. and Vickers, M. (2008), 'A new model of bullying in the nursing workplace: Organisational characteristics as critical antecedents', Advances in Nursing Science, 12.
  • Vickers, M. (2008), 'From the Editor-in-Chief's Desk: Difference, Diversity, and Discrimination at Work - Revisiting Stigma', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 4.
  • Vickers, M. (2008), 'From the Editor-in-Chief's Desk: Employers and Employees Thinking About Trust', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 4.
  • Parris, M., Vickers, M. and Wilkes, L. (2008), 'Friendships under strain: The work-personal life integration of middle managers', Community, Work & Family, 14.
  • Vickers, M. (2008), 'Why People with MS are Really Leaving Work: From a Clayton's Choice to an Ugly Passage', The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 15.
  • Hutchinson, M., Wilkes, L., Vickers, M. and Jackson, D. (2008), 'The development and validation of a bullying inventory for the nursing workplace', Nurse Researcher, 11.
  • Parris, M., Vickers, M. and Wilkes, L. (2008), 'Caught in the middle: Organisational impediments to middle managers' work life balance', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 17.
  • George, A., Vickers, M., Wilkes, L. and Barton, B. (2008), 'Working and caring for a child with chronic illness: Challenges in maintaining employment', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 12.
  • George, A., Vickers, M., Wilkes, L. and Barton, B. (2008), 'Working and caring for a child with chronic illness: Barriers in achieving work-family balance', Journal of Management & Organization, 14.
  • Vickers, M. and Parris, M. (2007), 'Your Job No Longer Exists!: From Experiences of Alienation to Expectations of Resilience -- A Phenomenological Study', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 13.
  • Vickers, M. (2007), 'Reflections from an Action Researcher: Why We Do What We Do', International Journal of Action Research, 22.
  • Vickers, M. (2007), 'Autoethnography as Sensemaking: A Story of Bullying', Culture and Organization, 15.
  • Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M., Jackson, D. and Wilkes, L. (2006), 'They stand you in a corner; you are not to speak: Nurses tell of abusive indoctrination in work teams dominated by bullies', Advances in Contemporary Nursing, 11.
  • Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M., Jackson, D. and Wilkes, L. (2006), 'Workplace Bullying in nursing: Towards a more critical organisational perspective.', Nursing Inquiry, 9.
  • Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M., Jackson, D. and Wilkes, L. (2006), 'Like wolves in a pack: Predatory alliances of bullies in nursing', Journal of Management & Organization, 16.
  • Vickers, M. (2006), 'Towards Employee Wellness: Rethinking Bullying Paradoxes and Masks', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 15.
  • Vickers, M. (2006), 'Writing What's Relevant: Workplace Incivility in Public Administration -- A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing', Administrative Theory & Praxis, 20.
  • Vickers, M. (2006), 'A Guide to Grief in Public Administration', Administrative Theory and Praxis, 17.
  • George, A., Vickers, M., Wilkes, L. and Barton, B. (2006), 'Chronic grief: Experiences of working parents of children with chronic illness', Contemporary Nurse, 15.
  • Vickers, M. (2005), 'Illness, Work and Organization: Postmodern Perspectives, Antenarratives and Chaos Narratives for the Reinstatement of Voice', Tamara: journal of critical postmodern organization science, 15.
  • Parris, M. and Vickers, M. (2005), 'Working in Teams: The Influence of Rhetoric -- From Sensemaking to Sadness', Administrative Theory & Praxis, 24.
  • Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M., Jackson, D. and Wilkes, L. (2005), 'I'm Gonna Do What I Wanna Do!". Organisational Change as a Vehicle for Bullies.', Health Care Managament Review, 8.
  • Vickers, M. (2005), 'Working and Caring for Children with Chronic Illness/Disability: Stories of Disconnection, Cruelty and Clayton's Support', Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 13.
  • Vickers, M. (2005), 'Action Research to Improve the Human Condition: An Insider-Outsider and a Multi-Methodology Design for Actionable Knowledge Outcomes', International Journal of Action Research, 29.
  • Vickers, M. (2005), 'Bounded Grief at Work: Working and Caring for Children with Chronic Illness', Illness, Crisis & Loss, 18.
  • Vickers, M. and Parris, M. (2005), 'Towards Ending the Silence: Working Women Caring for Children with Chronic Illness', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 18.
  • Vickers, M. (2004), 'The Traumatized Worker: A Concern for Employers and Employees', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 4.
  • Perrone, J. and Vickers, M. (2004), 'Emotions as Strategic Game in a Hostile Workplace: An Exemplar Case', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 12.
  • Vickers, M., Bailey, J. and Parris, M. (2004), 'Working Mothers of Children with Chronic Illness: Narratives of Working and Caring', Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 6.
  • Vickers, M. (2003), 'Expectations of Consistency in Organizational LIfe: Stories of Inconsistency From People With Unseen Chronic Illness', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 14.
  • Hendricks, J. and Vickers, M. (2003), 'Symposium: The Role of the Theorist in Facilitating Voice', Administrative Theory and Praxis, 6.
  • Vickers, M. (2003), 'Chaos Narratives to Reinstate the Voice of a Survivor of Mental Illness: A (Partial) Life Story', Administrative Theory and Praxis, 16.
  • Perrone, L. and Vickers, M. (2003), 'Life after graduation as a very uncomfortable world: An Australian case study', Education + Training, 10.
  • Vickers, M. (2002), 'Researchers as Storytellers: Writing on the Edge--And Without a Safety Net', Qualitative Inquiry, 14.
  • Vickers, M. (2002), 'Bullying as Unacknowledge Organizational Evil: A Researcher's Story', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 13.
  • Vickers, M. (2002), 'People First--Always": Euphemism and Rhetoric as Troublesome Influences on Organizational Sense-Making--A Downsizing Case Study"', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 14.
  • Vickers, M. and Kouzmin, A. (2001), 'Resilience in Organisational Actors and Rrearticulating Voice: Towards a Humanistic', Public Management Review, 25.
  • Vickers, M. (2001), 'Unseen Chronic Illness and Work: Authentic Stories from "Women in Between"', Women in Management Review, 13.
  • Vickers, M. and Kouzmin, A. (2001), 'New Managerialism and Australian Police Organizations: A Cautionary Research Note', The International Journal of Public Sector Management, 20.
  • Vickers, M. and Kouzmin, A. (2001), 'Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP's): From Crisis Support to Sanctioned Coersion', Critical Psychology: The International Journal of Critical Psychology, 23.

Conference Papers

  • Ouppara, N., Vickers, M. and Fallon, W. (2011), 'Reflecting on the Rhetoric of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Case Study of Inter-Organizational Bullying', 25th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Wellington, NZ.
  • Perrone, L., Vickers, M. and Jackson, D. (2009), 'Understanding the Do-It-Yourself Investor: A New Type of Entrepreneur', ANZAM 2009 Conference, Melbourne, VIC.
  • Vickers, M. (2009), 'Financial Transitions and Turning Points for People with Multiple Sclerosis (MS): Engaging Emotions for a More Compassionate Organisational Response', ANZAM 2009 Conference, Melbourne, VIC.
  • Vickers, M. (2007), 'An Ugly Passage: Why People with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) are Really Leaving Work', 15th Annual International Conference of the Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
  • George, A., Vickers, M., Wilkes, L. and Barton, B. (2007), 'Building Resilience in Working Parents of Children with Chronic Illness', 15th Annual International Conference of the Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
  • Parris, M. and Vickers, M. (2007), 'Stories of Ambivalence: Australian Executives' Experiences of Outplacement Services', 15th Annual International Conference of the Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
  • Vickers, M. (2007), 'Why We Do What We Do: The Philosophical Orientations of Action Research', 15th Annual International Conference of the Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
  • Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M., Jackson, D. and Wilkes, L. (2006), 'The worse you behave, the more you seem to be rewarded!': Bullying in nursing as organisational corruption', Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies 11th International Colloquium (APROS 11), Melbourne, Australia.
  • Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M., Jackson, D. and Wilkes, L. (2006), 'The Development and validation of a multidimensional workplace bullying instrument', 14th Annual International Conference of Association of Employment Practices and Principles, New York, USA.
  • George, A., Vickers, M., Wilkes, L. and Barton, B. (2006), 'Working and caring for a child with chronic illness: Careerist concerns and stressful choices', 2006 Annual International Conference of the Association of Employment Practices and Principles, New York, USA.
  • George, A., Vickers, M., Wilkes, L. and Barton, B. (2006), 'Working and caring for a child with chronic illness: Workplace concerns', Management: Pragmatism, Philosophy, Priorities : Proceedings of the 20th ANZAM Conference, Rydges Capricorn Resort, Yeppoon, Queensland.
  • Parris, M. and Vickers, M. (2006), 'An Assault on Identity: The Male View of Being Made Redundant', Association on Employment Practices and Principles 14th Annual International Conference 2006, New York City, New York, USA.
  • Parris, M., Vickers, M. and Wilkes, L. (2006), 'Integration or Collision?: Middle Managers' Concerns for Work-Life Balance', 14th Annual International Conference 2006 of the Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP), New York City, New York, USA.
  • Muneshwar, S., Vickers, M., Wilkes, L. and Fallon, W. (2006), 'Understanding Bullying in Commercial Kitchens: An Insider's View', Inaugural New Zealand International Hospitality Management Conference - 2006, Novotel Tainui Hotel, Hamilton, New Zealand.
  • Vickers, M. (2005), 'Workplace Concerns Caring for a Child with Chronic illness: From Needing to Work to Orientations to Flexibility', Association on Employment Practices and Principles, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  • Saurine, R. and Vickers, M. (2005), 'Organizational Culture in Retail: An Exporatory Autoethnography', Association on Employment Practices and Principles 13th Annual International Conference 2005, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  • Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M., Jackson, D. and Wilkes, L. (2005), 'I'm Gonna Do What I Wanna Do!": Organizational Change as a Legitimized Vehicle for Bullies"', Association on Employment Practices and Principles 13th Annual International Conference 2005, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  • Vickers, M. (2005), 'She Hasn't Been Very Well Lately...: Working and Caring for Children with Chronic Illness -- Questions of Workplace Disclosure', Engaging the Multiple Contexts of Management - The 19th Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), Canberra, ACT, Australia.
  • Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M., Jackson, D. and Wilkes, L. (2005), 'Like Wolves in a Pack: Stories of Predatory Alliances of Bullies in Nursing', Engaging the Multiple Contexts of Management: the 19th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
  • Vickers, M. and Parris, M. (2004), 'Towards Ending the Silence: Working Women as Carers of Children with Chronic Illness/Disability', 18th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, ANZAM 2004, People First - Serving Our Stakeholders"", Dunedin, New Zealand.
  • Vickers, M. and Parris, M. (2004), 'Being Made Redundant: From Writing on the Wall" to "A Bolt from the Blue" - "Being Disposed Of" as a Human Tragedy"', 18th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, ANZAM 2004, People First - Serving Out Stakeholders"", Dunedin, New Zealand.
  • Parris, M. and Vickers, M. (2004), 'Working in Teams: The Influence of Rhetoric - From Sensemaking to Sadness', SAM/IFSAM VIIth World Congress, Management in a world of diversity and change"", Goteborg, Sweden.
  • Parris, M., Vickers, M. and Wilkes, L. (2004), 'Managing in the Middle: A Review of the Middle Management Experience in the 21st Century', 12th Annual International Conference 2004 for the Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP), Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida, USA.
  • Vickers, M. and Wilkes, L. (2004), 'Informal Elder Care and Full Time Work in Australia: A Vital Exploration', 12th Annual International Conference 2004 of the Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP), Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida, USA.
  • Vickers, M. (2004), 'Full Time Workers Caring for Children with Chronic Illness: Cruelty, Carelessness and Clayton's Support""', 12th Annual International Conference 2004 of the Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP), Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida, USA.
  • Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M., Jackson, D. and Wilkes, L. (2004), 'Bullying in nursing: introducing an Australian study', Leadership in the 21st Century: Working, living and surviving organizational life, Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida, USA.
  • Vickers, M., Bailey, J. and Parris, M. (2003), 'Working Parents of Children with Chronic Illness/Disability: Narratives of Concern', 11th Annual Conference of the Association on Employment Practices and Principles, San Diego, USA.
  • Vickers, M. and Parris, M. (2003), 'Telling it How it Really Is?: Life in Organisations Revealed Using Heideggerian Phenomenology', 11th Annual Conference of the Association on Employment Practices and Principles, San Diego, USA.
  • Vickers, M. (2003), 'Downsizing: Employer Deliverance or Employee Disposal', Association on Employment Practices and Principles 11th Annual International Conference 2003, San Diego, California, USA.
  • Vickers, M. and Bailey, J. (2003), 'Women as Parents, Workers, Carers - and Survivors: A Research Design to Explore Lives and Share Support', 5th Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference: Advancing Creative Solutions in Science and Practice, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Vickers, M. (2002), 'Workplace Bullying: Mediation Used as Perpetrator Defence - A Target's Story', 20th Annual International Conference of The Association of Management and the International Association of Management, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
  • Vickers, M. (2002), 'Reconsidering Mental Illness: Reinstating the Voice of a Survivor', Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP) 2002 Annual International Conference, New York City, N ew York, USA.
  • Vickers, M. (2002), 'Illness, Work and Organisation: Postmodernism and Antenarratives for the Reinstatement of Voice', Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP) Proceedings of the 2002 Annual International Conference, New York City, New York, USA.
  • Perrone, L. and Vickers, M. (2001), 'Life After Graduation as A Very Uncomfortable World": A Phenomenological Case Study"', AEPP Annual National Conference (2001), San Francisco, USA.
  • Vickers, M. (2001), 'Bullying as Unacknowledged Organisational Evil: A Paradoxical Case Study', AEPP Annual National Conference (2001), San Francisco, USA.
  • Perrone, J. and Vickers, M. (2001), 'Emotions as Strategic Game in a Hostile Work Place - A Phenomenological Case Study', AEPP Annual National Conference (2001), San Francisco, USA.

Research

Current Projects

Title:An Exploration of Workplace Experiences of People with Multiple Sclerosis (MS): A Qualitative Study
Years:2010-03-18 - 2013-12-31
ID:P00018174
UWS Researchers:Margaret Vickers
Funding:
  • Trauma Research International Pty Ltd

Previous Projects

Title:Working parents of children with chronic illness/disability: Caring responsibilities, workplace concerns and personal survival - An exploratory study
Years:2003-05-02 - 2004-05-01
ID:P0010754
UWS Researchers:Margaret Vickers
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
  • The Childrens Hospital at Westmead
  • Trauma Research International Pty Ltd
Title:Living and Working with Multiple Sclerosis: Why People with MS are Leaving Work?
Years:2005-01-12 - 2005-04-30
ID:P0014574
UWS Researchers:Margaret Vickers
Funding:
  • Trauma Research International Pty Ltd donation
Title:Bullying in the workplace: A study of Australian nurses
Years:2003-12-16 - 2007-06-14
ID:P0012682
UWS Researchers:Margaret Vickers, Debra Jackson and Lesley Wilkes
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • Northern Rivers Area Health Service
  • Wentworth Area Health Service
Title:Full Time Workers Caring for Children with Chronic Illness: A National Study
Years:2005-03-08 - 2008-08-22
ID:P0012738
UWS Researchers:Margaret Vickers and Lesley Wilkes
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
  • The Childrens Hospital at Westmead
Title:Perspectives of Employers on the Disabled Workforce: Encouraging an Australian Study
Years:2007-11-22 - 2009-12-11
ID:P0015890
UWS Researchers:Margaret Vickers
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
  • Portland State & DePaul Universities
Title:Perspectives of Employers on the Disabled Workforce: Encouraging an Australian Study
Years:2007-11-22 - 2009-12-11
ID:P0015987
UWS Researchers:Margaret Vickers
Funding:
  • Portland State & DePaul Universities
Title:Surviving and thriving in the face of workplace adversity: An intervention to develop personal resilience in nurses and midwives
Years:2006-10-06 - 2010-08-30
ID:P0015033
UWS Researchers:Debra Jackson, Margaret Vickers and Lesley Wilkes
Funding:
  • Sydney West Area Health Service
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Bullying in the Workplace: A Survey of State of Florida Nurses USA
Years:2005-03-03 - 2006-03-02
ID:P0014546
UWS Researchers:Margaret Vickers, Lesley Wilkes and Debra Jackson
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

Supervision

Professor Vickers is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Current Supervision

Title:Corporate Social Responsibility in Vietnam: The Case of the Construction Industry
Field of Research:
Title:Using Appreciative Inquiry to Enhance Family Centered Care in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Field of Research:
Title:A Study of Corporate Contripeneurship in Vietnam
Field of Research:
Title:When Hearts and Minds Disengage: Exploring the Work Life Experiences and the Impact on Health and Well-being for the Disengaged Employee.
Field of Research:
Title:Critical Factors of Offshore Master of Business Administration Education Programs in Vietnam: Multiple Perspectives.
Field of Research:BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Title:One to Many: Exploring the Nature of the Relationship between Individual and Social Learning within Practice Based Contexts
Field of Research:
Title:Job, Career or Calling: Exploring the personal meaning of work and its impact on individual well-being and quality of life.
Field of Research:

Previous Supervision

Title:Inter-Organisational Bullying: A Critical Small-Firm Perspective
Field of Research:
Thesis:Inter-Organisational Bullying: A Critical Small-Firm Perspective

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