معرفی
David Holman is a Professor in the Organisational Psychology Group at Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester. His research focuses on employee gentleness, emotion regulation at work, job design, and job quality. He leads a project funded by the Lord Alliance Research Grant exploring employee gentleness in social care settings through ethnographic studies. Holman serves on the editorial boards of Human Relations and the Journal of Business and Psychology, and has received a Best Paper award from the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology (2015-16). His work examines institutional factors shaping job quality across Europe, emphasizing divergent trends in job design. He collaborates internationally, contributing to risk regulation studies and safety culture development in high-risk industries.
Research Highlights:
- Employee gentleness in care settings: Understanding organizational influences on caregiving practices.
- Emotion regulation dynamics: Investigating interpersonal emotion regulation in healthcare and supervisory relationships.
- Job quality variation: Analyzing cross-national institutional effects on European job design trends.
Awards & Grants:
- Lord Alliance Research Grant (2023-2025) for studying employee gentleness in social care.
- Best Paper Prize, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology (2015-2016).
Professional Roles:
- Editorial Board Member: Human Relations, Journal of Business and Psychology.
- Speaker: Delivered keynote on job redesign interventions at EAWOP conferences.
