Marissa Edwards

Level 2 RHD Zone - Desk 7
Colin Clark
St. Lucia
Tel: +61 7 3365 4855
Fax: +61 7 3365 6988

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Joyce Ackroyd
St. Lucia
Tel: +61 7 3346 8128
Fax: +61 7 3346 8166

UQ Business School
M.Edwards@business.uq.edu.au

Marissa Edwards

Marissa Edwards is a member of Leadership And Change Management research group and Management teaching group

• Thesis
• Publications on UQ eSpace

Thesis

• Employees' responses to wrongdoing in organisations: The role of psychological processes in employee silence and whistle-blowing.
  My PhD research focused specifically on the role of emotions in employees' decisions to report or remain silent about serious employee wrongdoing, such as bullying, sexual harassment, sabotage, fraud and theft. My studies used qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate how employees’ emotions influence decision-making following observed or experienced wrongdoing. Drawing on Appraisal Theory and Affective Events Theory, I suggest that employees’ appraisals of, and emotional reactions to episodes of wrongdoing trigger a decision-making process involving emotions, cognitions, job attitudes, individual characteristics, and relevant contextual factors (e.g., organizational climate, perpetrator power and status, etc). The first study in my thesis in a case study of the events involved Dr. Jayant Patel ("Dr. Death") at Bundaberg Base Hospital in Queensland, Australia. My second study was a series of interviews with employees who witnessed or experienced serious wrongdoing in the workplace, and my third study was a survey which focused on the role of emotions, individual and situational factors involved in the decision to remain silent or speak up.

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