PUBLICATIONS

Under Review

 

1.      Giradi, A., Morrison, D.L., Cordery, J.L., The factor structure of skill utilisation. Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology.

2.      Morrison, D.L., Cordery, J.L., and Giradi, A., The role of skill utilisation as a mediator of job characteristics: Evidence from three longitudinal studies. Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology.

3.      Morrison, D.L, and Owen, J., The effect of return to work environment on the effectiveness of an employee assistance programme. Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology.

 

4.      O’Neill, P., and Morrison, D.L., The substantive effect of negative affect on perceptions of job design: More than just a nuisance variable? Work and Stress.

 

5.      Cordery, J., Morrison, D.L., and P. Sevastos, Sex related differences in organisational commitment: The influence of occupational level and social support. Sex Roles

 

6.      Cordery, J., Morrison, D.L., Wall T.D, Wright, B.M., and Production uncertainty as a moderator of the effectiveness of self-managing team interventions: a field study. Journal of Applied Psychology.

 

7.      Morrison, D.L.,  and Wood, G. A compendium of research on workers compensation (1991-1998). Perth; WorkCover WA.

 

Refereed Papers, Book Chapters, and Edited Special Issues.

 

1.      Morrison, D.L., and Payne, R.L., and Wall T.D.,  (In press) A Multi-Level Analysis of the emand-Control and the Demand-Control-Support Models of Stress in the Workplace

 

2.      Morrison, D.L. and Payne, R.L, (in press) A test of the demands, supports constraints framework in predicting psychological distress among Australian Public Sector Employees.  Work and Stress.

3.      Clegg, C.W., Wall, T.D., Pepper, K., Stride, C., Woods, D., Morrison, D., Cordery, J., Couchman, P., Badham, R., Kuenzler, C., Grote, G.Ide, W., Takahashi, M., and Kogi, K, (In press). An international survey of the use and effectiveness of modern manufacturing practices. International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing.

4.      Payne, R.L., and Morrison, D.L. (in press), The Differential Effects of Negative Affectivity on Measures of Well-being versus Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment. Anxiety Stress and Coping..

5.      Stephenson, Palamara, P., and Morrison D.L., (in press), Behavioural Factors as Predictors of Motor Vehicle Crashes in Young Drivers. Accident Research.

6.      Wood, G., Morrison, D.L., and Ying F., (1999), The effect of medical practitioner proactivity on workers’ compensation claims duration and costs. Journal of Occupational Health and Safety.

 

7.      Payne R.L. and Morrison, D.L., (1999), The importance of knowing the affective meaning of job demands. Work and Stress, 13, 280-288.

 

8.      Morrison, D.L., and Huitson, M, (1999), Training mental skill: The challenge of technology. In M. Griffin and J. Langan-Fox (Eds.), Human Performance and the Workplace. Melbourne: Australian Psychological Society (Imprint Books).

 

9.      Morrison, D.L., Upton, D.M., and Cordery J., (1999) The role of supervisor behaviour in facilitating opportunities for skill development and utilisation. International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing, 9, 1-17.

 

10.  Denoon, R.O., Letchford, C.W., Kwok, K.C.S., and Morrison D.L., (1999), Field Measurements of human reaction to wind-induced building motion. Larsen, LaRose, ande Livesy (eds). Wind engineering into the 21st Century. 637-644. Balkema: Rotterdam.

11.  Klobas, J.E., and Morrison D.L., (1999), A planned behaviour in context model of networked information resource use. In Bullinger H, and Ziegler, J. (eds.). Human Computer interaction: Communication, cooperation and application design, 823-838. LEA:New Jersey..

12.  Morrison, D.L., Lee, P. (1998), Multiple processing in process control. In K. Kirsner, M. Mayberry, C. Speelman and  A. O’Brien al., Implicit processes in psychological science: Theory and Practice. Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates.

13.  Morrison, D.L., Lewis, G., and LeMap A., (1997), Predictors of Fault Finding Skill. Australian Psychologist, 3, 146-152.

14.  Morrison, D.L, and Clements, R., (1997), The effect of one partner’s job characteristics on the other partner’s distress: A serendipitous, but naturalistic, experiment. Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology, 70, 307-324,

15.  Wood, G.A., and Morrison, D.L., (1997), An evaluation of rehabilitation programs: A financial appraisal, Safety Science, 25, 247-260.

16.  Morrison, D.L., and LeMap, A., (1996), Individual differences in fault-finding skill can reliably predicted after all. In S.A. Robertson (Ed.) Contemporary Ergonomics. London: Taylor and Francis, 234-239.

17.  Morrison, D.L., Upton, D., and Cordery, J., (1996), Trust and skill utilisation as mediators of job characteristics: A three year case study. In R. Koubek, and W. Karwowski,(Eds.) Manufacturing Agility and Hybrid Automation. Santa Monica, IEA Press. pp170-176.

18.  Morrison, D.L. and Savery, L. (1996) Organisational Commitment and Job Satisfaction among Blue-Collar Shop-Floor workers.  International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing, 6, 263-279.

19.  Morrison, D.L., Wood, G.A., and Macdonald, S., (1995), Factors influencing mode of workers compensation claims settlement. International Journal of Rehabilitation, 18, 1-18.

20.  Wood, G.A., Morrison, D.L., Macdonald, S., (1995),  Rehabilitation programs and return to work outcomes. Journal of Occupational Health and Safety, 11, 125-137.

21.  Wood, G.A., and Morrison, D.L., (1995) Return to work outcomes: A reply to Fish and Hocking. Journal of Occupational Health and Safety, 11, (4), 342-343.

22.  Wood, G.A., Morrison, D.L., Harrison, J., and MacDonald, S., (1995), The determination of common law awards to injured workers. The Australian Economic Review, 4, 59-70

23.  Morrison, D.L. and Upton, D.M. (1994) Troubleshooting in Advanced Manufacturing Environments. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 41, 69-83.

24.  Wood, G.A., Morrison, D.L., and MacDonald, S., (1993), Factors influencing the cost of workers’ compensation claims: The effects of settlement method, injury characteristics and demographics. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 3, 201-211.

25.  Morrison, D.L., Wood, G.A., MacDonald, S., and Munrowd,D., (1993) An empirical study of the duration and cost of workers compensation claims in WA. Journal of Occupational Health and Safety, 9(2), 117-130.

26.  Morrison, D.L., (1993), Organisational Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. In Morrison, D.L., (1993), (Ed.) Organisational Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. Special Edition of International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing, 3, 111-117.

27.  Lawton, G., Morrison, D.L., and Lee, P., (1993), Managing Complexity: Display design in process control. In M.J. Smith and G. Salvendy, Human Computer Interaction: Applications and Case Studies. North Holland: Elsevier.

28.  Morrison, D.L., Dunne, M., Fitzgerald, R. and Cloghan, D. (1992) Job Design and Levels of Physical and Mental Strain Among Prison Officers. Work and Stress, 6, 13-32.

29.  Morrison, D.L., (1992), The applications of cognitive theory and science to HCI: a psychological perspective. In Morrison, D.L. (ed.), (1992), The application of Cognitive Theory and Science to Human Computer Interaction. Special Edition of International Journal of Human Computer Interaction (part 1), 4, 1-4.

30.  Morrison, D.L., (1992), Guest Editorial: Human Factors in Computer Integrated Manufacturing. In Morrison, D.L., (ed.), (1992), Human Factors in Computer Integrated Manufacturing. Special Edition of  International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 5, 53-58.

31.  Morrison, D.L. (ed.), (1992), The application of Cognitive Theory and Science to Human Computer Interaction. Special Edition of International Journal of Human Computer Interaction (Part 2), 4.,1-104

32.  Lawton, G., Lee, P., Morrison, D.L., and Olsson G., (1992), Design of Information Systems for User Decision Support. Chemical Engineering(Australia), 17,  8-13.

33.  Dunne, M. and Morrison, D.L. (1991),  A Survey of Physical and Mental Well Being Among a Sample of Prison Officers in Australia.  Journal of Occupational Health and Safety, 7(1), 49-58.

34.  Shannon, P. and Morrison, D.L. (1990)  Who goes to GROW?  The Australia and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 24, 96-102.

35.  Hartley, L.R., Morrison, D.L. and Arnold, P. (1989) Performance Under Stress.  In A.M. Colley and J.R. Beech (eds.) The Performance and Acquisition of Cognitive Skills, 265-300.  John Wiley and Sons:  Chichester, U.K.

36.  Morrison, D.L. (1988)  Predicting Diagnosis Performance with Measures of Cognitive Style. Current Psychology: Research and Reviews, 7(2), 136-156.

37.  Morrison, D.L. and Duncan, K.D. (1988)  Strategies and Tactics in Fault Diagnosis.  Ergonomics, 31(5), 761-784.

38.  Morrison, D.L. and Duncan, K.D. (1988)  The Effects of Hierarchical and Scrolling Displays, and Ability on Fault Diagnosis Performance.  Ergonomics, 31(6), 889-904.

39.  Morrison, D.L., Hartley, L.R. and Kemp, D. (eds.) (1986) Trends in the Ergonomics of Work.  Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Ergonomics Society. Melbourne: Ergonomics Society of Australia and New Zealand.

40.  Morrison, D.L. (1985)  The Effect of Cognitive Style and Training on Fault Diagnosis Performance.  Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 22(2), 132-139.

41.  McShane, J. and Morrison, D.L. (1985)  Are Young Children's Judgements of Liquid Inequality Rule Guided or Stimulus Driven?  British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 3, 57-68.

42.  Morrison, D.L., Green, T.R.G., Shaw, A.C. and Payne, S.J. (1984) Speech Controlled Text Editing:  Effects of Input Modality and of Command Structure.  International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 21(1), 49-64.

43.  Green, T.R.G., Payne, S.J., Morrison, D.L. and Shaw, A.C. (1983) Friendly Interfacing to Simple Speech Recognisors.  Behaviour and Information Technology, 2, 23-38.

44.  McShane, J. and Morrison, D.L. (1983)  How young children judge quantities:  a case of apparent compensation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 35, 21-29.

45.  Morrison, D.L. and Green, T.R.G. (1981)  Adaptive Interface Techniques in Recognising Speech and Similar Inputs. Archived (in electronic form only) in the British Library electronic journal Computer Human Factors, Volume 1. Also Memo No. 457, MRC/ESRC Social and Applied Psychology Unit, University of Sheffield.

Refereed Conference Proceedings.

1.      Denoon, R., Letchford, C.W., Kwok, K., and Morrison D.L., (1998), Wind induced motion of two air traffic control towers and motion perception of other occupants. Australasian Structural Engineering Conference, Auckland 29 September to 2 October 1998 Published by : Structural Engineering Society of New Zealand, 1998. ISBN 0-473-05481-7

2.      Morrison, D.L., Couchman, P.., Cordery, J., and Badham, R. (1998), The use and effectiveness of modern manufacturing practices in Australia. In W. Karwowski and R. Goonetilleke (Eds.), Manufacturing Agility and Hybrid Automation. P143-147. Santa Monica, IEA Press.

3.      Girardi, A., Morrison, D.L., and Cordery, J. (1998), Skill utilisation: its measurement and role in job design theory. In K.Unsworth, et al., International Work Psychology Conference, July 1-3, 1998), Institute of Work Psychology University of Sheffield: Book of Proceedings (ISBN 0 9533504 01).

4.      Morrison, D.L., Girardi, A., and Cordery J.,  (1998) How work design influences psychological well being: A Longitudinal study supporting the mediating role of skill utilisation. International Work Psychology Conference, July 1-3, 1998), Institute of Work Psychology University of Sheffield (ISBN 0 9533504 01)

5.      Morrison, Cordery, J, and Girardi, A., (1996), Supervisor behaviour and skill utilisation as a mediator of  job characteristics: A comparison of traditional and contemporary forms of work design. Health and Wellbeing in a changing environment. Proceedings of the APA/Worksafe conference on stress at work. 120-124. Brisbane, March, 11-12, 1996.

6.      Morrison, D.L., Cordery, J., and Girardi A., (1996) Design Opportunities for Skill Utilisation and Job Related Affective Well-Being. The British Psychological Society Occupational Psychology Conference. Book of Proceedings. 3-5 January 1996. Leicester: British Psychological Society.

7.      Morrison, D.L., Yap, L.M. and Farley, C., (1991), The effect of psychological arousal on fault diagnosis behaviour. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Human Factors Society, 35, 1010-1014.  Human Factors Society: Santa Monica.

8.      Morrison, D.L, and Upton., D.M., (1991), Training for Troubleshooting in Manufacturing Environments. Proceedings of the 1990 Industry Training Conference Melbourne: Sept 16-17, 10, 1-21. Engineering Publications: Melbourne.

9.      Morrison, D.L. (1985)  Cognitive Ergonomics:  The Human Computer Interface.  Published in The Proceedings of the 8th National ICL Computer Users Conference, Perth, Nov. 11-13.

10.  Morrison, D.L. and Hartley, L.R. (1985)  Human Factors at Murdoch University.  Published in: Ergonomics in the Tourist, Agricultural and Mining Industries, Bullock, M.I. and Eddington, N. (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Ergonomics Society of Australia and New Zealand, 325/335. Melbourne: Ergonomics Society Inc..

11.  Morrison, D.L. (1986)  Display Format and Fault Diagnosis Behaviour.  Proceedings of the 1986 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1520-1524. IEEE Inc.:New York.

12.  Ensor, A, and Morrison, D.L., (1986), Individual Differences in Fault Diagnosis Ability.  In D.L. Morrison, L.R. Hartley, and D. Kemp,(eds.) (1986) Trends in the Ergonomics of Work.  Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Ergonomics Society. Melbourne: Ergonomics Society Inc.

13.  Morrison, D.L., Ou, D. and Roberts, D. (1987)  The Relationship Between Job Design and Measures of Mental and Physical Strain in Prison Officers. Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Conference, 31, 340-344. Human Factors Society: Santa Monica.

14.  Morrison, D.L. and Duncan, K.D. (1984)  Ergonomics Displays and Fault Diagnosis.  Proceedings of the Ergonomics (UK) Society Conference, Exeter University.  Supplement No. 1 to Ergonomics, Vol. 27, 264-267.

 

Research Reports (A sample)

 

1.      Morrison, D.L., and Wood, G., (1998), Management practices, medical interventions and return to work. Final report to Work Cover WA (pp1-186) (Publicly available on request).

 

2.      Morrison, D.L., Couchman, P.., Cordery, J., and Badham, R. (1998), The use and effectiveness of modern manufacturing practices in Australia. (45 pages)

 

3.      Morrison, D.L., and Cordery, J. (1997), An investigation and identification of optimally productive arrangements of jobs and equipment/process technologies. Meat Research Corporation, Sydney. (Publicly available on request) (Part 1 and Part 2, 70 pages plus appendices)

 

4.      Flatau, P., Jefferson, T., Morrison, D., and Wood, G., (1997), International institutional frameworks: accident compensation, rehabilitation and injury prevention. (200 pages). Report to the New Zealan Workers Compensation Commission)

 

5.      Morrison, D.L. and Wood G.A., (1995) Early Identification of Injury Duration and Evaluation of Vocational Rehabilitation Intervention. Final Report to the Workers Compensation and Rehabilitation Commission WA. (1-117). Publicly available on request.

 

6.      Morrison, D.L., Fitzgerald, R., and Dunne M.P. (1992), Job Design, Social Support and Levels of Physical and Mental Well Being in Prison Officers. Final Report to the Australian Criminology Research Council. pp1-144. Held in the J.V. Barry Library of the Australian Institute of Criminology.

 

7.      Morrison, D.L., Wood, G., MacDonald, S., (1992), Factors Influencing the Costs of Compensation. Final Report to the Workers Compensation and Rehabilitation Commission WA. (1-111). Publicly available on request.

 

8.      Morrison, D.L., (1992), Stress in the Public Service. A report of a survey sponsored by the WA Branch of The Civil Service Association (46 pages).

 

9.      Morrison, D.L. (1990)  Report on the Proposals for the Implementation of Performance Appraisal in the Public Service.  Technical Report: Public Sector Union.(28pages)

 

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Not included in the above)

1.      July, 1998, (with John Cordery and Antonia Girardi) Skill utilisation: its measurement and role in job design theory. International Work Psychology Conference, July 1-3, 1998), Institute of Work Psychology University of Sheffield

2.      July, 1998, (with John Cordery and Antonia Girardi) How work design influences psychological well being: A Longitudinal study supporting the mediating role of skill utilisation. International Work Psychology Conference, July 1-3, 1998), Institute of Work Psychology University of Sheffield

3.      June, 1997, (with John Cordery, Antonia Girardi and Renu Burr)The relationship between job demands and control: The effects of organisational setting. Second Australian Industrial/Organisational Psychology Conference. Melbourne June 29-30.

4.      May, 1997, (with G. Wood). Facilitating Return to Work: A research program. National Safety Conference. Perth May 11-13.

5.      April 1997, (with J. Cordery and D. Upton), The impact of supervisor behaviour on skill utilization: The mediating role of organizational climate. Presented at The 1996 Society of Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference, April 11-13. St. Louis USA.

6.      March 1997.Burr, R., Cordery, J., Gunson, C., Morrison, D., Sutherland, M., Self-Managing Work Groups: their role in meat processing. Paper presented at Meat Industry Impro/Expo Conference. Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast.

7.      March 1997, Gunson, C., Burr, R., Morrison, D., Cordery, J., & Michael Sutherland, Redesigning boning room arrangements. Paper presented at Meat Industry Impro/Expo Conference. Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast.

8.      May 1996, (with J. Cordery and P. Sevastos), Sex related differences in organisational commitment: The influence of occupational level and social support. Presented at The 1996 Society of Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference, April 25-28. San Diego, USA.

9.      February, 1996 (with G. Wood), An evaluation of rehabilitation programs: A financial appraisal. First Australian Occupational Health and Safety Conference, (Work Safe Australia and The Australian Psychological Society). Sydney, February 27-28.

10.  September, 1995 (With R. Clements). The Transference of Stress between Married Couples: The effects of partner absence. Presented at American Psychological Association/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. September 14-16, Washington.

11.  July 1995.(With Cordery, J., and Girardi T) Design

12.  Opportunities for Skill Utilisation and Job Related Affective Well-Being. In augural Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference. Australian Psychological Society. July 14-16

13.  August 1993 Managing Complexity: Display design in Process Control. Presented at The Fifth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, (HCI International '93), Orlando, Florida, August 8-13,1993.

14.  July 1993 Psychology and Technology. Presented at the Department of Psychology Annual Conference, University of Western Australia, Science Function Centre, West Perth, June 25th.

15.  April 1993 The effects of job design on physical and mental well being among Australian prison officers: a longitudinal study. Presented at The Australian Social Psychology Conference: Newcastle, New South Wales, April 14-17, 1993.

16.  November 1992 The moderating influence of negative affect and job characteristics on strain outcomes: evidence from two surveys of prison officers. To be presented at a Joint APA/NIOSH conference on Job Design and Occupational Stress, 19-22 November, 1992, Washington DC., USA.

17.  July 1992 (with G. Wood) The determinants of the duration of workers compensation claims. Presented at the 21st Conference of Economists. Melbourne University, 8-10 July, 1992.

18.  February 1991 (with K. Kirsner, J. Dunn and C. Macleod): Stress and Performance: The role of cognitive resources. Presented at The Commonwealth Defence Science Organisation Conference. Aukland New Zealand.

19.  August 1990,  Invited Speaker.  The Promises and Problems of Performance Appraisal.  Presented at Award Restructuring and Job Evaluation. A conference organised by the Public Sector Research Unit on behalf of Civil Service Association of Australia.

20.  September 1988.  Some Limiting Factors in Fault Diagnosis Performance.  Paper presented at the Fifth European Conference on Cognitive Psychology, University of Cambridge, England, U.K.

21.  May 1988 (with P. Shannon).  Who goes to Grow?  Presented at The Australian College of Psychiatrists Conference, Melbourne.

22.  June 1986.  Human Factors in Hazardous Industries.  Paper given in a series of talks on Software Psychology, Occupational Board of the Australian Psychological Society, Perth, Western Australia.

23.  August 1985.  Cognitive Styles and Fault Diagnosis Performance.  Presented at the 1st Joint Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Psychological Societies, Christchurch, New Zealand.

24.  January 1985.  The Effect of Cognitive Style and Training on Fault Diagnosis.  Paper presented at the Occupational Division of the B.P.S. Annual Conference held at the University of Sheffield.  Abstracted in The Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, Vol. 38, Feb. 1985.

25.  January 1984.  Individual Differences in Fault Diagnosis Behaviour.  Paper presented at the Occupational Psychology Annual Conference, University of York.  Abstracted in The Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, Vol. 37, Feb. 1984.

26.  April 1983.  Computer Aided Problem Solving:  Hierarchical Displays or Scrolling Windows?  Presented at the Annual Conference on Post-Graduate Psychology, The University of St. Andrews, April 6-8, 1983.

27.  March 1982.  How Young Children Judge Liquid Quantities:  a case of pseudo compensation.  Presented at the Welsh Branch of the B.P.S. Thirteenth Annual Student Conference.  Abstracted in the Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, Sept. 1982, Vol. 35.

28.  April 1982.  Speech Interfacing of Computers:  an evaluation for text-editing.  Presented at the Annual Conference on Post-Graduate Psychology.  Abstracted in the Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, Sept. 1982, Vol. 35.

29.  September 1980.  Linguistic and Task Variables in the Assessment of Cognitive Development.  Presented at B.P.S. Developmental Conference.  Abstracted in the Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, May 1980, Vol. 33.