Emeritus Professor Peter Warr

Emeritus Professor Room: Mushroom Lane 115 Phone: 0114 22 23231 Fax: 0114 22 23348 Email: P.Warr@sheffield.ac.uk

Professor Peter Warr is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Work Psychology.

Areas of Expertise

• Personality, motivation and behaviour
• Happiness and unhappiness in work settings
• Age differences in employment settings

Current Areas of Research

Worker happiness and unhappiness
Motivation and engagement
Personality patterns and correlates
Person-job fit

Qualifications

BA, University of Cambridge
PhD, University of Sheffield
Spearman Medal of the British Psychological Society for distinguished research
Presidents’ Award of the British Psychological Society for outstanding contributions to psychological knowledge
Chartered Psychologist

Professional Affiliations

Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society
Fellow of the International Association of Applied Psychology
Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Foreign Affiliate of the American Psychological Association

Example Publications

More than 220 articles and 25 books. Some recent illustrations:

Warr, P. B. (in press). Jobs and job-holders: Two sources of happiness and unhappiness. To appear in K. Cameron and A. Caza (eds.), Happiness and Organizations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press.

Inceoglu, I., & Warr, P. B. (in press). Personality and job engagement. Journal of Personnel Psychology.

Warr, P. B., & Inceoglu, I. (in press). Job engagement, job satisfaction, and contrasting associations with person-job fit. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology.

Warr, P. B. (2011). How to think about and measure psychological well-being. In M. Wang, R. R. Sinclair and L. E. Tetrick (eds.) Research Methods in Occupational Health Psychology. New York: Routledge, in press.

Warr, P. B. (2010). What about the workers? Occupational Health Psychology News, 8, 8-9.

Warr, P. and Clapperton, G. (2009). The Joy of Work? Jobs, Happiness, and You. London: Routledge.

Warr, P. (2009). Environmental “vitamins”, personal judgments, work values, and happiness. Pages 57-85 in S. Cartwright and C. Cooper (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well-being (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

Warr, P. B. (2008). Work values: Some demographc and cultural correlates. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 81, 751-775.

Warr, P. B. (2007). Work, Happiness, and Unhappiness. New York: Routledge.

Warr, P. B. (2006). Differential activation of judgments in employee well-being. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 79, 225-244.

Birdi, K.S., Warr, P.B. & Oswald, A.J. (1995). Age differences in three components of employee well-being. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 44(4), 345-373.