Arla L. Day, Ph.D.
Canada Research Chair
Department of Psychology
Saint Mary's University
Halifax, NS B3H 3C3
902-420-5854 (office);
902-420-5152 (COHP lab)
902-491-6381 (ABLE Program)
902-496-8287 (fax)
Dr. Arla Day is a Canada Research Chair and Full Professor in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Saint Mary's University, and a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association.
Arla is a founding member of two research and community outreach centres: The CN Centre for Occupational Health and Safety and the Centre for Leadership Excellence. Arla chairs the Nova Scotia Psychological Healthy Workplace Program committee, and she is on the Steering Committee for the American Psychological Association’s Business of Practice Network, which oversees the state, provincial, and national healthy workplace awards and programs.
Dr. Day currently teaches graduate level courses in Psychometrics (test validation and development) and Organizational Psychology, and her past teaching has included Personnel Psychology, Statistics, and Introduction to Psychology.
Dr. Day is an active researcher in the Centre for Occupational Health Psychology (COHP), her research unit aimed at studying employee and organizational health. She has authored many articles and book chapters pertaining to healthy workplaces, occupational stress, employee well-being, emotional intelligence, and work-life balance. She was the co-editor of a special issue on Healthy Workplaces for the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Sciences. She is part of several large-scale, funded, research projects, examining the ability of organizational programs and interventions to improve the health of both employees and organizations.
Along with her colleagues, she has developed the ABLE program (Achieving Balance in Life & Employment), and conducted studies indicating this a phone-based coaching program helps employees attain personal and work-related goals, and helps them to reduce job stress and balance their work and life responsibilities.
Dr. Day is a researcher on the CREW project (Civility, Respect, & Engagement in the Workplace), which has demonstrated the effectiveness of a group-based intervention to reduce incivility and burnout, improve civility and health.
She also consults with a number of private and public organizations on a variety of organizational health issues, and she regularly gives workshops and talks on issues related to her expertise.
She puts her research and consulting into action by trying to reduce stress and balance her work with her family life… with her friends and family, her two overly-exuberant dogs, and her one relatively well-behaved horse.
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