Sandra Kiffin-Petersen

Sandra Kiffin-Petersen is a Senior Lecturer in the Management and Organisations discipline within the UWA Business School at the University of Western Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science from Curtin University, a Bachelor of Arts from Murdoch University, and both an MBA and a PhD in organisational behaviour from the University of Western Australia, awarded in 2003. Her academic career at UWA commenced as a Casual Tutor in Organisational Behaviour from 1992 to 1994, progressed to Private Management Consultant from 1992 to 1993, Associate Lecturer and Course Coordinator from 1994 to 1995, and Lecturer and Honours Coordinator in the Department of Organisational & Labour Studies from 1997 to 1999. In her current role, she serves as Graduate Research Coordinator, teaching courses including MGMT5501 Organisational Behaviour and MGMT5647 Negotiation Behaviour to undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive MBA students. She has received multiple nominations for teaching excellence and was awarded Excellence in Teaching Awards for postgraduate education by the Business School in 2004 and 2008, as well as a Teaching Fellowship in 2005.

Kiffin-Petersen's research specializations encompass emotions in the workplace, work team effectiveness, interpersonal trust within organisations, leadership, negotiation, and complex cognitive-emotional interactions in work design. Her publications appear in journals such as Organizational Research Methods, Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice, and the Journal of Management & Organization, including key works like "Trust: A Neglected Variable in Team Effectiveness Research" (2004), "Influence of work design and work status on part-time employees' inclusion and work engagement: some Australian evidence" (2023, with J. Sarich and G. Soutar), and "Application of prototype analysis to organizational research: A critical methodological review" (2025, with S. Purchase and D. Olaru). She has secured awards such as Best Paper Awards at the 20th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (2006), Outstanding Reviewer Awards from the Academy of Management (2014 and 2024), and an Australian Postgraduate Award with Stipend for Doctoral Studies (1996-1999). Additionally, she has consulted for private sector organisations on team design and negotiation, delivered workshops via the AIM WA-UWA Executive Alliance, served on the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Management, and delivered keynote and invited presentations, including at the 14th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Emotions in Worklife (2019).

Professional Email: sandra.kiffin-petersen@uwa.edu.au