Dr. Lori Francis - Department of Psychology

Brief Biographical Information

I joined the department psychology at Saint Mary's University as an assistant professor in 2002. I received a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Guelph (2002). I have also studied at McMaster University (M.Sc., 1998) and St. Francis Xavier University (B.Sc. Honours, 1996). My research interests include occupational health and safety, organizational justice, and unions.

Here's how you can contact me…

By email: Lori.Francis@smu.ca
By phone: (902) 496-8150
By fax: (902) 496-8287
By mail: Department of Psychology
Saint Mary's University
Halifax, NS
B3H 3C3


Research Interests and Some Representative Work

My current organizational research interests can be grouped in three major categories. A brief description of each of these areas and examples of the work I am doing are provided below.

Occupational Health and Safety

I do research pertaining to well-being in the workplace, including workplace stress and strain and organizational stress prevention initiatives. I am currently involved in a funded three year longitudinal study of Nova Scotia employees and employers - examining such issues as prevalent stressors, the experience of stress, and the utility of existing intervention programs.

I am also involved in a number of collaborative projects in the area of worker safety. In these projects we are investigating the factors that impact the safety related attitudes that employees develop.

Organizational Justice

Another aspect of my research program examines factors related to fairness in the workplace. In particular, I consider the impact of unfair outcomes, procedures and treatment at work on various employee outcomes. I am currently most interested in the impact of injustice on employee health.


Unionism

Along with a number of colleagues, I am involved in a line of research on unionism and protest behaviour. In this ongoing series of studies we are looking at the factors that predict of participation in protest activities (such as strikes).


Selected Examples of Representative Work

Francis, L . & Kelloway, E.K. (in press). Industrial relations stress. In J. Barling, M. Frone, & E.K. Kelloway (Eds ). Handbook of workplace stress. Thousand Oaks: CA: Sage.

Kelloway, E.K., Mullen, J. & Francis, L . (2004). Injuring your leadership: Transformational and passive leadership predict safety outcomes . Manuscript submitted to Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.

Francis, L ., Kelloway, E. K., Smith, S. M. & Houde, S. J. R. J. (2004). Can the leopard change his spots? Employee responses to safety messages from supervisors. Manuscript in preparation.

Francis, L. , Desmarais, S., & Kelloway, E.K. (2003). Negative versus unfair outcomes: A further examination of the relationship between injustice and stress. Manuscript in preparation.

Francis, L ., Desmarais, S., & Kelloway, E.K. (2003). Injustice as a stressor: An examination of teachers' reactions to principals' decisions. Manuscript in preparation.

Kelloway, E.K., Francis, L ., & Catano, V.M. (2004). Third party support for strike action. Manuscript submitted to Journal of Applied Psychology (currently under revision to be resubmitted) .

Francis, L. & Kelloway, E.K. (2003, June). Justifiable aggression? In E. K. Kelloway (Chair), Workplace Violence and Aggression: Risk and Response . Symposium presented at the meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Hamilton, ON.

Francis, L ., Kelloway. E.K., Barling, J., & Keeley, N. (2003, March). The impact of organizational injustice on the experience of stress. Paper presented at the Work, Stress & Health Conference, Toronto, Ontario.

Teaching

I teach the following courses in the Psychology Department at Saint Mary's University:

Psychology 200 - Introduction to Psychology
Psychology 350 Labs -Psychological Statistics (Lab Section)
Psychology 601 - Advanced Psychological Statistics and Research Design (Graduate)


Other Potentially Interesting Things to Know

I am an active member of the CN Centre for Occupational Health and Safety and the Centre for Leadership Excellence (CLE). I engage in a number of organizational consulting activities via my involvement with these centres. I am also a member of the Saint' Mary's University Research Ethics Board and I co-ordinate the Psychology department's colloquium series.

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