Responsibilities
Lecturing:
- Work- and organizational psychology (former)
- Advanced Survey Data Collection and Multivariate Statistics (former)
- Research design and data strategy (former)
- Quantitative research methods (former)
Supervision:
- Bachelor's theses (former)
- Master's theses
- PhD candidates
Other responsibilities:
- Project manager "MOTIVATION" and "REMOTE" (Norwegian Research Council-funded projects)
- Leader of the research group in Work Motivation and Optimal Functioning
- WP leader WP2 "Organizing for innovation" in the USN Business School research program “Managing sustainable innovation through co-creation”
- Coordinator of the master's program "Strategy and knowledge management" at the Master's programme in Business Administration
- Member of program board, Master's in Business Administration
- Member of program board, PhD in Management
- Representative in the Administrative Science Group in the Economics and Administration Unit of Universities Norway
- Organizer of the yearly Conference on Motivation
Competences
- Management, work motivation, research methods, quantitative data analysis.
CV
Formal education:
- University of South-Eastern Norway, Teaching and learning in a digital era. 10 ECTS.
- University of South-Eastern Norway, Teaching and learning in higher education. 10 ECTS.
- Norwegian School of Econmics, PhD in Strategy and Management
- Buskerud University College, Master of Science in Business and Economics
- Buskerud University College, Master of Science in Strategy and Knowledge Management
- Buskerud University College, Bachelor in Law and Management
- University of Oslo, Ex. Phil and Ex. Fac
Relevant work experience:
- Visiting Professor, Future of Work Institute, Curtin University (current)
- Professor, University of South-Eastern Norway (current)
- Lecturer and supervisor, University of Oslo (current)
- Associate Professor, University of South-Eastern Norway
- PhD scholar, University of South-Eastern Norway
- Visiting scholar, UQAM
Stay abroad:
- Future of Work Institute, Curtin University
- UQAM
- Queensland University of Technology
- Texas Tech University
Other:
- Project manager MOTIVATION and REMOTE (funded by the Research Council of NOrway)
- Member Advisory Committee on "The Science of Motivation at Work", Center for Self-Determination Theory
- Member of the international faculty of Self-Determination Theory (see http://selfdeterminationtheory.org/faculty/)
- Member of expert committee evaluation reaccreditation of program in Strategic Human Resource Management (60 ECTS) at Buskerud and Vestfold University College
- Student representative of the R&D committee at Buskerud University College
Peer-review:
- Human Resource Management
- Personnel Review
- Stress & Health
- Motivation and Emotion
- PLOS ONE
- International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior
- Mindfulness
- Magma
- Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies
- International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management
- Open Psychology Journal
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Administrative Sciences
- Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
- International Journal of Manpower
- Administrative Sciences Association of Canada
- Spanish Journal of Marketing
- International Journal of Psychology
- The International Journal of Human Resource Management
- Journal of Personality
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes
- Performance Enhancement & Health
- The Journal of Creative Behavior
- Journal of Personnel Psychology
- Organizational Psychology Review
- Journal of Environmental Psychology
- Journal of Workplace Learning
- Søkelys på arbeidslivet
- Current Psychology
- Psychology Research and Behavior Management
- Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
- Heliyon
- Human Performance
- Motivation Science
- Journal of Health Psychology
- Computers in Human Behavior
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public health
- Nature Reviews Psychology
- Journal of Business Research
- Social Science Journal
- Human Resource Management Journal
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment
- Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
Publications
PhD thesis
- Olafsen, A. H. (2016). Work motivation through the lens of self-determination theory. PhD Doctoral Thesis, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Strategy and Management, Bergen. NO 2016/04 ISBN: 978-82-405,0331-4.
Peer-reviewed published articles, conference presentaions, popular science presentations
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anja_Olafsen
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.no/citations?user=kJv2GuoAAAAJ&hl=no
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