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Sharon K. Parker

Sharon K. Parker

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Business and Management
Australia
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
94
Citations
44577
World Ranking
71
National Ranking
4

Sharon K. Parker publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sharon K. Parker sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 277 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Sharon K. Parker D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sharon K. Parker sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 94 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2016 - Australian Laureate Fellow
  • 2016 - OB Division Mentoring Award, US Academy of Management
  • 2014 - Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
  • 2013 - Elected Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Overview

Sharon K. Parker is affiliated with Curtin University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of health professions, business, management, and psychology. Their research primarily intersects organizational behavior, job satisfaction, workplace health, and well-being. This multidisciplinary approach is further reflected in subfields including organizational behavior and human resource management, social psychology, sociology and political science, and demography.

The scientist has authored multiple papers addressing topics such as job satisfaction and organizational behavior, employment and welfare studies, workplace health, occupational health and safety research, retirement and disability employment, knowledge management, and personality traits in psychology.

Notable recent publications include:

  • "How Does the Use of Information Communication Technology Affect Individuals? A Work Design Perspective" (2020) in Academy of Management Annals
  • "Understanding and Shaping the Future of Work with Self-Determination Theory" (2022) in Nature Reviews Psychology
  • "Can High-Quality Jobs Help Workers Learn New Tricks? A Multidisciplinary Review of Work Design for Cognition" (2021) in Academy of Management Annals
  • "Making Sense of Organisational Change Failure: An Identity Lens" (2020) in Human Relations
  • "Did the COVID-19 Lock-Down Make Us Better at Working in Virtual Teams?" (2021) in Small Group Research

Parker often collaborates with frequent co-authors including Mark Griffin, Joseph A. Carpini, Patrick D. Dunlop, Florian E. Klonek, and Karina Jorritsma.

The research has been published predominantly in these venues:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Organizational Behavior
  • European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
  • Industrial and Organizational Psychology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

Recognition of Parker's contributions to the field includes election as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2014 and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in 2013. Additional honors include the Australian Laureate Fellow award in 2016 and the OB Division Mentoring Award from the US Academy of Management in the same year.

Best Publications

  • A new model of work role performance: Positive behavior in uncertain and interdependent contexts

    Mark A. Griffin;Andrew F. Neal;Sharon K. Parker

  • Modeling the Antecedents of Proactive Behavior at Work

    Sharon K. Parker;Helen M. Williams;Nick Turner

  • Making Things Happen: A Model of Proactive Motivation:

    Sharon K. Parker;Uta K. Bindl;Karoline Strauss

  • Taking Stock: Integrating and Differentiating Multiple Proactive Behaviors

    Sharon K. Parker;Catherine G. Collins

  • Enhancing role breadth self-efficacy: The roles of job enrichment and other organizational interventions.

    Sharon K. Parker

  • 7 Redesigning Work Design Theories: The Rise of Relational and Proactive Perspectives

    Adam M. Grant;Sharon K. Parker

  • Achieving Effective Remote Working During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Work Design Perspective.

    Bin Wang;Bin Wang;Yukun Liu;Jing Qian;Sharon K. Parker

  • Future work design research and practice: Towards an elaborated model of work design

    Sharon K. Parker;Toby D. Wall;John L. Cordery

  • Job and work design : organizing work to promote well-being and effectiveness

    Sharon Parker;Toby D. Wall

  • GETTING CREDIT FOR PROACTIVE BEHAVIOR:SUPERVISOR REACTIONS DEPEND ON WHAT YOU VALUE AND HOW YOU FEEL

    Adam M. Grant;Sharon Parker;Catherine Collins

  • "THAT'S NOT MY JOB": DEVELOPING FLEXIBLE EMPLOYEE WORK ORIENTATIONS

    Sharon K. Parker;Toby D. Wall;Paul R. Jackson

  • Future work selves: how salient hoped-for identities motivate proactive career behaviors

    Karoline Strauss;Mark A. Griffin;Sharon K. Parker

  • Beyond Motivation: Job and Work Design for Development, Health, Ambidexterity, and More

    Sharon K. Parker

  • Proactive Work Behavior: Forward-Thinking and Change-Oriented Action in Organizations

    Uta K. Bindl;Sharon K. Parker

  • The demands—control model of job strain: A more specific test

    Toby D. Wall;Paul R. Jackson;Sean Mullarkey;Sharon K. Parker

  • A systematic review of prognostic/end-of-life communication with adults in the advanced stages of a life-limiting illness: patient/caregiver preferences for the content, style, and timing of information

    Sharon M. Parker;Josephine M. Clayton;Karen Hancock;Sharon Walder

  • Minimizing strain and maximizing learning: the role of job demands, job control, and proactive personality

    Sharon K. Parker;Christine A. Sprigg

  • SEEING ANOTHER VIEWPOINT: ANTECEDENTS AND OUTCOMES OF EMPLOYEE PERSPECTIVE TAKING

    Sharon K. Parker;Carolyn M. Axtell

  • Longitudinal effects of lean production on employee outcomes and the mediating role of work characteristics.

    Sharon K. Parker

  • Designing a safer workplace: importance of job autonomy, communication quality, and supportive supervisors.

    Sharon K. Parker;Carolyn M. Axtell;Nick Turner

  • Reorienting job crafting research: A hierarchical structure of job crafting concepts and integrative review

    Fangfang Zhang;Sharon K. Parker

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Griffin
Mark A. Griffin Curtin University
Chia-Huei Wu
Chia-Huei Wu University of Leeds
Toby D. Wall
Toby D. Wall University of Sheffield
Cynthia Lee
Cynthia Lee Northeastern University
Brian Kelly
Brian Kelly University of Newcastle Australia
Peter Totterdell
Peter Totterdell University of Sheffield
Peter Warr
Peter Warr University of Sheffield
Nick Turner
Nick Turner University of Calgary
Maria Tims
Maria Tims Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Phyllis Butow
Phyllis Butow University of Sydney

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