This episode looks at the value of lived experience: how consultation with people who have lived experience of disability or illness (in this case, specifically mental illness) can help make workplaces more inclusive and supportive.
My guest is Professor Ying Lena Wang from LaTrobe Business School.
Ying (Lena) Wang conducts research that focuses on understanding and developing individuals’ personality, fostering employee proactive behaviours, and promoting diversity and inclusion in organisations. Coming from a practitioner background, Lena works extensively with government and industry partners in a wide range of applied research projects in such areas as workforce / leadership development, diversity and inclusion, and impact evaluations.
You find out more about Lena’s work on the value of lived experience from the following sources:
The Personnel Review article she led, Employing people who have “been there, experienced that” to inform innovative HRM responses to workforce mental health issues: Practice insights from industry;
The International Journal of HRM research study she led, Developing inclusive and healthy organizations by employing designated lived experience roles: Learning from human resource management innovations in the mental health sector; and
The Australian National Mental Health Commission‘s National Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce Development Guidelines, to which she contributed.
Mind on the Job is created, presented, and produced by organisational psychologist Dr Ben Searle.
Music theme is Cypher by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/