Dr. Mohd Awang B Idris

Biography

Dr. Mohd Awang Idris, is a lecturer in Work and Organisational Psychology, Department Anthropology and Sociology, University of Malaya. He is Elected President of the Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work. He had worked for several private organizations between 1996 to 2007, and hold several management positions such as Head of Marketing, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Manager, Training and Development. He joined University of Malaya in 2007. His research interests include job stress, psychosocial safety climate, leadership, job engagement, workplace injuries and team performance. He has ISI-H index 4 (72 citations), and Scopus H Index 6, with 139 citations. He publishes several papers in ISI-outlets publications, and also a reviewer for some well-known journals such as Safety Science, Work & Stress, Journal Occupational and Organizational Psychology, International Journal of Stress Management, Cross-Cultural Management: An International Journal; and Journal Occupational Health Psychology. He won the Tony Winefield Thesis Prize award for the best PhD thesis in psychology for 2010-2011 from the University of South Australia, Adelaide. He is also a columnist in the "Psikologi & Masyarakat" [Psychology & Society] for the Thursday edition of the daily Malay newspaper, Kosmo!

Research Interest

Organisational and Industrial Psychology (Organizational climate) Organisational and Industrial Psychology (Leadership) Health and Safety (Occupational) (Workplace injuries) Psychological Methodology, Design and Analysis (AMOS, HLM, multilevel analysis, NviVO) Organisational and Industrial Psychology (job stress, safety climate, job characteristics, burnout, depression, anger)