Current Position

• Head of the Psychology Department (from 14 July 2008) at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia.
• Associate Professor (from 1 Jan. 2007) in Department of Psychology at USQ.

Other roles

• Director of the Community and Organisational Research Unit (core) (from 1 Jan., 2006). This Unit encompasses a team of researchers whose primary interest is the impact of organisational climate on psychological variables such as stress and morale and outcome variables such as turnover, absenteeism, and workplace safety.

Educational Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Queensland (1999).  Topic - "Understanding the process of transfer of training in the workplace".
• Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training (BSZ40198), August, 2001.
• Master of Arts, University of Queensland (1991)
• Bachelor of Science, University of Queensland (1991)
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Queensland (1984)
• Bachelor of Arts, University of Queensland (1983)

Current Fields of Interest

• The role of climate for transfer in supporting transfer of training in the workplace.
• Assessment of occupational well-bring and components of organisational commitment to change.
• Predictors of well-being and reemployment success for the long-term unemployed.
• Evaluation of personality factors contributing to unsafe driving behaviours.
• The importance of work-family interactions in recruiting and retaining health care staff.

Teaching Responsibilities

• 2009 Advanced Research Techniques (Masters course)
• 2007 - 2009 Career Assessment and Development (Undergraduate course)
• 2003 - 2008 Research Methods in Psychology B (Undergraduate course)

• 2004 - 2004 Psychology Applied to Current Issues (Honours course)
• 1992 - 2002 Industrial and Organisational Psychology (Undergraduate course)
• 1992 - 2003 Personnel and Organisational Psychology (Honours course)
• 1994 - 2003 Group and Organisational Consultation (Masters course)
• 1992 - 1993 Organisational Behaviour (Undergraduate course)

Professional Associations

• Member of the Australian Psychological Society (MAPS) 
• Member of the APS College of Organisational Psychologists  
• Member of the International Association for Applied Psychology
• International Affiliate of the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology
• Member of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology
• Registered Psychologist, Queensland

Employment History

• Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Southern Queensland from 1st. Jan., 2007 to current.
• Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology at the University of Southern Queensland from 1st. Jan., 2001 to 31st Dec., 2006.
• Lecturer in Organisational Psychology at the University of Southern Queensland from 17th. Feb., 1992 to 31st Dec., 2000.
• Occupational Psychologist in the Department of Employment, Education and Training from 6th March, 1989 to 14th Feb., 1992.
• Tutorial Fellow in the Psychology Department, University of Queensland from Feb., 1986 to 31st Dec., 1988.
• Job Search Training Coordinator for Ipswich Community Youth Support Scheme from Jan., 1988 to July, 1988.

Consultancies (Total value of my contracted research is over $1,370,000).

• Queensland Health (2004-2010)
• Dept of Public Works (2007-2010)
• Queensland Transport (2005-2007)
• Dept of Industrial Relations (2003-2005)
• Shared Services Agency (2005-2007)

 Research Grants (Total value of my successful grants is $33,167).

• Co-Investigator for ARC Small Grant in 1998 with Dr Peter Creed, Griffith University. Topic: Improving performance during training, learning outcomes, skills transfer, and employment re-entry of unemployed people attending occupational skill straining courses ($6,208).
• USQ Early Career Researcher Program grant in 1998. Topic: Analysing the training needs of staff employed by providers of employment assistance to the unemployed and their potential access to internet-based courses ($2,500).
• Co-Investigator for Griffith University Research Grant in 2000 with Dr Peter Creed, Griffith University. Topic: Determining the impact of occupational insecurity on well-being ($8,112).
• Principle Investigator for Australian Transport Safety Bureau Road Safety Research Grant in 1999-2000. Topic: Evaluating a non-prescriptive fatigue management strategy for express coach drivers ($16,347).

Papers published and in press:

• Creed. P. A., Hicks, R., & Machin, M. A. (1996). The effect of psychosocial training climate on mental health outcomes for long-term unemployed individuals. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Vocational Education Research, 4(2), 26-41.
• Creed. P. A., Machin, M. A., & Hicks, R. (1996). Neuroticism and mental health outcomes for long-term unemployed youth attending occupational skills training programs. Personality and Individual Differences, 21, 537-544.
• Machin, M. A., & Albion. M. J. (1997). Career maturity of unemployed youth and mental well-being. Australian Journal of Career Development, 6(1), 48-49.
• Machin, M. A., & Fogarty, G. J. (1997). The effects of self-efficacy, motivation to transfer, and situational constraints on transfer intentions and transfer of training. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 10(2), 98-115.
• Creed. P. A., Hicks, R. & Machin, M. A. (1998). Behavioural plasticity and mental health outcomes for long-term unemployed attending occupational training programs. Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology, 71, 171-191.
• Creed. P. A., Machin, M. A., & Nichols, P. M. (1998). Personal effectiveness training for unemployed people: Where to now? Australian Journal of Career Development, 7(1), 30-34.
• Creed. P. A., Machin, M. A., & Hicks, R. (1999). Improving the mental health status and coping abilities for long-term unemployed youth using cognitive-behaviour therapy based training interventions. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 20, 963-978.
• Fogarty, G. J., Machin, M. A., Albion, M. J., Sutherland, L. F., Lalor G. I., & Revitt, S. (1999). Predicting Occupational Strain: The Role of Stress, Coping, and Positive and Negative Affectivity. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 54, 429-452.
• Creed. P. A., Muller, J., & Machin, M. A. (2001). The role of satisfaction with occupational status, neuroticism, financial strain and categories of experience in predicting mental health in the unemployed. Personality and Individual Differences, 30, 435-447.
• Kellett, S. & Machin, M. A. (2001). Developing a performance model for express coach drivers as a basis for selection. Faculty of Business & Commerce Management Papers, 9(1), 54-80.
• Creed. P. A., & Machin, M. A. (2002). The relationship between mental health and access to the latent benefits of employment for unemployed and underemployed individuals. Psychological Reports, 90(3 Pt 2), 1208-1210.
• Creed. P. A., & Machin, M. A. (2003). Multidimensional properties of the Access to Categories of Experience Scale. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 19(2), 85-91.
• Machin, M. A., & Creed, P. A. (2003). Understanding the differential benefits of training for the unemployed. Australian Journal of Psychology, 55(2), 104-113.
• Machin, M. A., & Fogarty, G. J. (2003). Perceptions of training-related factors and personal variables as predictors of transfer implementation intentions. Journal of Business and Psychology, 18(1), 51-71.
• Machin, M. A., Fogarty, G. J., & Albion, M. J. (2004). The relationship of work support and work demands to the individual outcomes and the levels of absenteeism of rural nurses. International Journal of Rural Psychology. [Available online: http://www.ruralpsych.com/Members/RefereedArticles/Machin%20Fogarty%20Albion/Machin-Fogarty-Albion.htm ].
• Machin, M. A., & De Souza, J. M. D. (2004). Predicting health outcomes and safety behaviour in taxi drivers. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 7(4-5), 257-270.
• Machin, M. A., & Fogarty, G. J. (2004). Assessing the antecedents of transfer intentions in a training context. International Journal of Training and Development, 8(3), 222-236.
• Albion, M. J., Fogarty, G. J., & Machin, M. A. (2005). Benchmarking occupational stressors and strain levels for rural nurses and other health sector workers. Journal of Nursing Management, 13, 411-418.
• Muller, J., Creed. P. A., Waters, L., & Machin, M. A. (2005). The development, psychometric evaluation and validation of a new scale to measure the latent and manifest benefits of employment. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 21(3), 191-198.
• Hoare, P. N., & Machin, M. A. (2006). Maintaining well-being during unemployment: The role of latent benefits of employment. Australian Journal of Career Development, 15(1), 19-27.

• Machin, M. A. & Sankey, K. S. (2008). Relationships between young drivers’ personality characteristics, risk perceptions, and driving behaviour. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 40, 541-547.
• Machin, M. A. & Hoare, P. N. (2008). The role of workload and driver coping styles in predicting bus drivers’ need for recovery, positive and negative affect, and physical symptoms. Anxiety, Stress & Coping, 21, 359-375.
• Albion, M. J., Fogarty, G. J., Machin, M. A., & Patrick, J. (2008). Predicting absenteeism and turnover intentions in the health professions. Australian Health Review, 32 (2), 271-281.
• Burns, R. A., & Machin, M. A. (2009). Investigating the structural validity of Ryff’s Psychological Well-Being scales across two samples. Social Indicators Research, 93(2), 359-375. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-008-9329-1
• Jury, C., Machin, M. A., Phillips, J., Goh, H. E., Olsen, S., & Patrick, J. (2009). Developing and implementing an action-oriented staff survey: Queensland Health and the “Better Workplaces” initiative. Australian Health Review, 33 (3), 365-370.
• Machin, M. A., Fogarty, G. J., & Bannon, S. F. (2009). Predicting employees’ commitment to and support for organisational change. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Organisational Psychology, 2, 10-18. DOI: 10.1375/ajop.2.1.10
• Hoare, P. N., & Machin, M. A. (2009). Some implications of the psychological experience of unemployment. Australian Journal of Career Development, 18(3), 57-61.
• Hoare, P. N., & Machin, M. A. (in press). The impact of reemployment on access to the latent and manifest benefits of employment and mental health. Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology. DOI: 10.1348/096317909X472094
• Burns, R. A., & Machin, M. A. (2010). Identifying gender differences in the independent effects of personality and psychological well-being on two broad affect components of subjective well-being. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 22-27. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.08.007

Papers submitted for publication

Book Chapters and Refereed Conference Proceedings

• Machin, M. A. (2002). Planning, managing, and optimizing transfer of training. In: K. Kraiger (Ed.), Creating, implementing, and managing effective training and development (pp. 263-301). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

• Machin, M. A. (2003). Evaluating a fatigue management training program for coach drivers. In L. Dorn (Ed.), Driver behaviour and training (pp. 75-83). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
• Hoare, P. N., & Machin, M. A. (2004). Self-esteem, affectivity, and deprivation: Predictors of well-being in the unemployed. In M. Katsikitis (Ed.), Proceedings of the 39^th APS Annual Conference pp. 143-147. Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Psychological Society.
• Machin, M. A., & Treloar, C. A. (2004). Predictors of motivation to learn when training is mandatory. In M. Katsikitis (Ed.), Proceedings of the 39^th APS Annual Conference pp. 157-161. Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Psychological Society.
• Strahan, J., Fogarty, G. J., & Machin, M. A. (2005). Predicting performance on a Situational Judgement Test: The role of communication skills, listening skills, and expertise. In M. Katsikitis (Ed.), Proceedings of the 40^th APS Annual Conference (pp. 323-327). Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Psychological Society.
• Machin, M. A. & Bannon, S. F. (2005). Australian Public Sector employees’ commitment to organisational change. In M. Katsikitis (Ed.), Proceedings of the 40^th APS Annual Conference (pp. 163-167). Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Psychological Society.
• Machin, M. A. (2005). Predictors of coach drivers’ safety behaviour and health status. In L. Dorn (Ed.), Driver behaviour and training Vol II (pp. 359-372). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
• Machin, M. A. & Sankey, K. S., (2006). Predicting young drivers’ risk perceptions and speeding behaviour. In M. King (Ed.) Proceedings of the 2006 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, Gold Coast: Able Video & Multimedia.
• Burns, R. A., & Machin, M. A. (2007). Re-evaluating our conception of well-being in an organisational setting. In M. Dollard, A. Winefield, M. Tuckey, & P. Winwood (Eds.) Proceedings of the 7^th Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference/ 1^st Asia Pacific Congress on Work and Organisational Psychology (pp. 31-35). Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Psychological Society.
• Goh, H. E., Machin, M. A., & Patrick, J. (2007). Attributes of immediate supervisor in promoting trust with employees in a public sector organisation. In M. Dollard, A. Winefield, M. Tuckey, & P. Winwood (Eds.) Proceedings of the 7^th Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference/ 1^st Asia Pacific Congress on Work and Organisational Psychology (pp. 86-88). Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Psychological Society.
• Machin, M. A., & Albion, M. A. (2007). Testing a model of the predictors of change success. In M. Dollard, A. Winefield, M. Tuckey, & P. Winwood (Eds.) Proceedings of the 7^th Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference/ 1^st Asia Pacific Congress on Work and Organisational Psychology (pp.185-189). Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Psychological Society.
• Beccaria, G. J., & Machin, M. A. (2007). The impact of informal social support on individual morale, distress, and satisfaction. In K. Moore (Ed.) Proceedings of the 42^th APS Annual Conference (pp. 12-16). Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Psychological Society.
• Fogarty, G., & Machin, M. A. (2008). Combining survey and database technologies in support of a safety climate improvement strategy. In P. Murphy, G. Fogarty, and J. Swann (Eds.), Select Proceedings of the 49th Annual Conference of the International Military Testing Association, pp. 162-170. Gold Coast, Australia, 8-12 October 2007.
  
  

   

Workshops and Conference Presentations

• Managerial competencies and work motivation: Do they interact? (presented to the APS National Conference, 1993).
• Using individual differences to improve training effectiveness (presented at USQ Psychology Department seminar, 1993).
• Training effectiveness and transfer of training: New approaches (presented to the NCVER conference on Training Research in University and TAFE, 1994).
• The impact of managerial competencies and job characteristics on personal and work outcomes (presented at USQ Psychology Department seminar, 1994).
• The ability requirements of police work (paper presented at the Inaugural Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference, Sydney, 14-16 July, 1995).
• Using the ability requirements methodology for job analysis (presented at USQ Psychology Department Seminar, August, 1995).
• The relationship of preferred-actual discrepancy models of person-job fit to occupational stress (presented at the National Occupational Stress Conference, Brisbane, March, 1996).
• An intervention to improve well-being and coping abilities of long-term unemployed (joint presentation with Dr. Peter Creed at the 3rd National Conference on Unemployment, Brisbane, June, 1996).
• Evaluating personal and employment -related outcomes for unemployed individuals attending specially devised Cognitive-Behavioural training programs (joint presentation with Dr. Peter Creed at the 2nd Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference, Melbourne, 27-29 June, 1997).
• The effects of self-efficacy, motivation to transfer, and situational constraints on transfer intentions and transfer of training (presented at the 2nd Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference, Melbourne, 27-29 June, 1997).
• The role of transfer climate and implementation activities in the transfer of training to the workplace (presented at the 24th International Congress of Applied Psychology, San Francisco, 9-14 August, 1998).
• Evaluating the impact of self-efficacy training on the learning outcomes, skill transfer, and employment re-entry of unemployed trainees who receive occupational skills training (joint presentation with Dr. Peter Creed at the 24th International Congress of Applied Psychology, San Francisco, 9-14 August, 1998).
• The impact of self-efficacy enhancement on the psychological well-being of unemployed people (joint presentation with Dr. Peter Creed at the 3rd Biennial Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference, Brisbane, 26-27 June, 1999).
• Developing a performance model for express coach drivers as a basis for selection (joint presentation with Sharon Kellett at the 3rd Biennial Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference, Brisbane, 26-27 June, 1999).
• The influence of transfer climate and transfer enhancement activities on the implementation of aviation team training (presented at the 3rd Biennial Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference, Brisbane, 26-27 June, 1999).
• Strategies for enhancing the transfer of cognitive well-being training (joint presentation with Dr. Peter Creed at the 8th National Vocational Education and Training Conference/Workshop, Toowoomba, 6-9th July, 1999.
• Enhancing the transfer of Aviation Team Training (presented at the Fifth Australian Aviation Psychology Symposium, 20-24 November, 2000 in Manly, Sydney.
• The effect of in-training, transfer enhancing activities on self-efficacy and transfer implementation intentions of computer skills trainees (presented at the 4th Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference, Sydney, 21-24 June, 2001).
• The relationship of work support and work demands to the individual morale, individual distress, and the levels of absenteeism of rural nurses (presented by Prof Gerry Fogarty at the 36th APS Annual Conference, Adelaide, 21-24 September, 2001).
• Driver traits and coping styles as predictors of strain and fatigue in bus drivers (presented at the XXV International Congress of Applied Psychology, Singapore, 7-12 July, 2002).
• Using situational exercises to enhance the efficacy of fatigue management training (presented at the XXV International Congress of Applied Psychology, Singapore, 7-12 July, 2002).

•  Predicting health outcomes and safety behaviour in taxi drivers (presented at the 5th Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference, Melbourne, 26-29 June, 2003).

• Examining a non-prescriptive approach to fatigue management in coach drivers (presented at the 5th Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference, Melbourne, 26-29 June, 2003).

• The influence of psychological factors on pre-employment activities in the unemployed (joint presentation with Ms Nancey Hoare at the 5th Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference, Melbourne, 26-29 June, 2003).
• Predictors of motivation to learn when training is mandatory (presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, 2-4 April, 2004 and represented at the 39th Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society, Sydney, 29 Sept. - 3 October, 2004).
• Self-esteem, affectivity, and deprivation: Predictors of well-being in the unemployed (presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, 2-4 April, 2004 and represented at the 39th Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society, Sydney, 29 Sept. - 3 October, 2004).
• Job search activity in the unemployed: The influence of deprivation of the financial and psychosocial benefits of employment (joint presentation with Ms Nancey Hoare at the 6th Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference, Gold Coast, 30 June – 3 July, 2005).
• What’s the role of drivers’ safety behaviour in preventing accidents? (presented at the 6th Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference, Gold Coast, 30 June – 3 July, 2005).
• Australian Public Sector employees’ commitment to organisational change (presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society, Melbourne, 28 Sept. - 2 October, 2005).
• Commitment Profiles and Successful Organisational Change (joint presentation with Dr. Majella Albion at the Sixth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations, Prato, Italy, 11-14 July, 2006).
• Factors influencing young drivers’ risk perceptions and driving behaviour (presented at the 26^th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece, 16-21 July, 2006 and at the 2006 Australasian Road Safety Research Policing and Education Conference, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.)
• Re-evaluating Our Conception of Well-Being in an Organisational Setting (joint presentation with Richard Burns at the 7th Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference and the 1^st Asia Pacific Congress on Work and Organisational Psychology, Adelaide, 29 June – 2 July, 2007).
• Attributes of Immediate Supervisor in Promoting Trust with Employees in a Public Sector Organisation (joint presentation with Dr Hong Eng Goh and Dr Jeff Patrick at the 7th Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference and the 1^st Asia Pacific Congress on Work and Organisational Psychology, Adelaide, 29 June – 2 July, 2007).
• Testing a Model of the Predictors of Change Success (presented at the 7th Australian Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference and the 1^st Asia Pacific Congress on Work and Organisational Psychology, Adelaide, 29 June – 2 July, 2007).
• The impact of informal social support on individual morale, distress, and satisfaction (joint presentation with Gavin Beccaria at the 42^nd APS Annual Conference, Brisbane, 25-29 September, 2007.

• The role of positive and negative affect in predicting depression (Presented at the Work, Stress and Health 2008 Conference, Washington DC, 6-8 March, 2008).
• The impact of reemployment on access to latent benefits (Presented at the Work, Stress and Health 2008 Conference, Washington DC, 6-8 March, 2008).
• Testing the direct, moderating, and mediating effects of demand, control and support in predicting change in teacher well-being in two countries across time (joint presentation with Richard Burns at the Work, Well-being and Performance: New Perspectives for the Modern Workplace Conference, Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, 19-20 June 2008).
• Organisational climate and individual characteristics that influence employee well-being (joint presentation with Richard Burns at the Work, Well-being and Performance: New Perspectives for the Modern Workplace Conference, Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, 19-20 June 2008).
• Re-evaluating our conception of wellbeing in a life events study (joint presentation with Richard Burns at the Health, Wellbeing and Happiness Conference: From Local Action to Global Change, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, 30^th June-1^st July 2008).
•  Predicting job satisfaction and depression at work: How important are work-related factors? (presented at the 44^th APS Annual Conference, Darwin, 30 September – 4 October, 2009).
• The importance of psychological well-being in organisational settings: Moving beyond the pleasure principle. (joint presentation with Dr Richard Burns at the 44^th APS Annual Conference, Darwin, 30 September – 4 October, 2009).
• Social problem solving skills and mental health: A comparison of undergraduate cohorts. (joint presentation with Gavin Beccaria at the 44^th APS Annual Conference, Darwin, 30 September – 4 October, 2009).
• Understanding the unique contribution of aversion to risk taking in predicting drivers’ self-reported speeding (to be presented at the Fourth International Conference in Driver Behaviour and Training, Amsterdam, 24-25 November 2009).

• Australian Psychologist (1998, 1999, 2003, 2008)
• Australian Social Policy Journal (2003)
• Editorial consultant for the Australian Journal of Psychology (2005-2007)
• European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (2008)
• Group and Organizational Management (2007)
• International Journal of Training and Development (2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009)
• Journal of Applied Social Psychology (2005, 2006, 2009)
• Journal of Business and Psychology (2006)
• Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology (2003, 2004, 2009)
• Journal of Personality (2009)
• Personnel Review (2004, 2009),
• Safety Science (2009),
• Simulation: Practice and Theory (2006), and
• Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour (2004, 2008).

Created and maintained by Tony Machin (machin@usq.edu.au)