Personal details
- Name
- Professor Cameron Newton
- Position(s)
- Head of School
QUT Business School,
Management - Discipline *
- Business and Management
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 2523
- cj.newton@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
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PhD (University of Queensland), BA (Hons) (Psychology) (University of Queensland), BCom (Griffith University)
- Keywords
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biofeedback, employee well-being, governance, heart rate variability, occupational stress, organisational culture, volunteer behaviour
Biography
Cameron commenced his professional life in the finance services sector where he held various management positions following completion of a Bachelor of Commerce in 1991. He worked in the fields of finance and investment consultancy for 9 years before completing his PhD in organisational psychology at The University of Queensland. Cameron joined The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies as a Senior Research Fellow in 2005 and the School of Management as a Senior Lecturer in 2010. Cameron is actively involved in research related to stress, organisational culture, identification, and organisational effectiveness with a particular focus on employee wellbeing. Cameron is also actively involved in objective measurement of strain and health, in particular, heart rate variability. Cameron was the founder of the People and Performance Research Group in 2012 at the QUT Business School which focusses on the HRM-performance relationship. He is also the recipient of more than 40 small and large external grants totalling over $2.6M, including three Australian Research Council Linkage Grants totalling over $1.15M.
Cameron is both a registered psychologist and a supervisor for the Psychology Board of Australia, overseeing the practice of probationary psychologists. Cameron is regularly invited to speak at industry and professional events relating to issues such as employee stress and performance, governance, and other human resource management issues. Cameron’s supervision of research higher degree students includes:
- Exploring organisational culture and employee change attitudes in nonprofit human service organisations
- Organisational identities and internal communications in public sector shared service arrangements
- Knowledge management in federated organisations
- Organisational culture and values and their impact on program evaluation in Australian philanthropic foundations
- Organisational value congruence in mergers and acquisitions
- Heart rate variability and stress in decision making
- Scale development to assess nonprofit governance effectiveness
Teaching
Teaching Interests
- Organisational Behaviour
- Quantitative Research Methods
- Human Resource Decision Making
- Contemporary Human Resource Management Issues
Publications
- Newton C, Teo S, (2014) Identification and occupational stress: A stress-buffering perspective, Human Resource Management p89-113
- Newton C, Becker K, Bell S, (2014) Learning and development opportunities as a tool for the retention of volunteers: a motivational perspective, Human Resource Management Journal p514-530
- Newton C, Jimmieson N, (2009) Subjective fit with organisational culture : an investigation of moderating effects in the work stressor-employee adjustment relationship, International Journal of Human Resource Management p1770-1789
- Newnam S, Newton C, McGregor-Lowndes M, (2009) Predicting the safety performance of volunteers: Does motivation for volunteering influence driving behaviour?, Safety Science p1090-1096
- Newnam S, Greenslade J, Newton C, Watson B, (2011) Safety in occupational driving: Development of a driver behavior scale for the workplace context, Applied Psychology p576-599
- Newton C, Mazur A, (2016) Value congruence and job-related attitudes in a nonprofit organization: a competing values approach, International Journal of Human Resource Management p1013-1033
- Newton C, Teo S, Pick D, Yeung M, Salamonson Y, (2013) Flexibility in change practices and job outcomes for nurses: exploring the role of subjective fit, Journal of Advanced Nursing p2800-2811
- Sawang S, Newton C, Jamieson K, (2013) Increasing learners' satisfaction/intention to adopt more e-learning, Education And Training p83-105
- Leiter J, Newton C, (2010) Nonprofit organizational behaviour : sociological and psychological approaches, International Encyclopedia of Civil Society p1076-1088
- Nicholson G, Newton C, McGregor-Lowndes M, (2012) The nonprofit board as a team: Pilot results and initial insights, Nonprofit Management & Leadership p461-481
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- Title
- The Value of Financial Planning Advice - Process and Outcome Effects on Consumer Well-Being
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP110200616
- Start year
- 2011
- Keywords
- Financial Advice; Well-Being; Investment; Consumer Protection
- Title
- Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Coaching in Reducing Workplace Stress: Laboratory and Field Investigations
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP110100616
- Start year
- 2011
- Keywords
- Biofeedback; Occupational Stress; Stress Management; Wellbeing
- Title
- Using Heart Rate Variability Measurements To Identify The Effects Of Stress On Decision Making
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP0884074
- Start year
- 2008
- Keywords
- Experimental Economics; Neuroeconomics; Organizational Design
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Assessing Vulnerability to Safety and Security Disruptions in Australian Airports (2016)
- You Can't Always Get What You Want: The Impact of Business Motivations On Alternative Outcomes (2016)
- Corporate reputation and financial performance: Underlying dimensions of corporate reputation and their relation to sustained financial performance (2014)
- Financial literacy and superannuation investment decision-making in a choice environment: An exploratory study (2014)
- Organisational Culture, Change Readiness And Retention: A Human Services Perspective (2014)
- Risk Management and High Reliability: A Case Study of Australian Airport Management (2014)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- Fostering Organisational Citizenship Behaviour for the Environment: Employee Discretionary Green Behaviour in a School-Based Setting (2018)
- Intentional Change Theory, Coaching and Leader Effectiveness (2018)
- First Principles at Work; Self Determination Theory and the Mechanism of Organismic Integration over Individual Dispositions in Entrepreneurship (2016)
- Critical Success Elements for the Design and Implementation of Organisational E-learning (2012)