Maja Graso

Biography

Maja joined the Department of Management in June 2016, and previously taught at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi. Her dissertation, which focused on effects of experiencing organizational injustice and unfairness on cognitive rigidity, was completed in May of 2011. Maja has been an active teacher ever since she received her master's degree, instructing courses in the realms of organizational sciences and general psychology. At Otago she will be teach in the areas of business ethics and leadership. At Zayed University, she utilized her practical HR work experience, research, and her cross-cultural background to advance students' understanding of leadership from a multidisciplinary and systemic perspective. Maja’s research history reflects a wide range of her interests, including organizational justice and fairness issues, cross-cultural organizational psychology, job insecurity, workplace safety, and psychometrics. She has been a regular contributor to major international conferences in organizational psychology, and she has collaborated on a number of applied research projects. Before moving to Dunedin, Maja lived in her native Croatia, Netherland Antilles, the United States' Pacific Northwest, and Abu Dhabi. She is an incurable traveller, scuba diver, and a travel photographer. 

Research Interest

  Organizational justice Occupational health and safety Job insecurity Scholarship of teaching and learning