Prof Prashant Bordia

Work & ageing; Wellbeing at work; Employee-organisation relationship.

Prashant Bordia is a Professor of Management. Prashant’s research has involved applying insights from social and organisational psychology to understanding individual behaviour, group processes and organisational practices. Over his career, he has studied rumour, communication and uncertainty management during organisational change, developmental processes in teams and employee-employer psychological contracts. Prashant’s current research interests are in the area of work and ageing, including post-retirement engagement with work, role identity processes in transition to retirement and work stress over the lifespan.  Prashant’s research has been published in leading scholarly journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, Academy of Management Journal, Human Resource Management, Human Communication Research, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, and Social Psychology Quarterly. Prashant is also the co-author, with Nicholas DiFonzo, of a seminal psychology book titled Rumor Psychology: Social and Organizational Approaches. Prashant’s research has been funded by a number of grants from the Australian Research Council Discovery Program and Linkage Program and funding for a Key Centre in Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Psychology. His research has also been supported by the US National Science Foundation.