The University of Sheffield
Management School

Emeritus Professor Peter Warr

Emeritus Professor

Room: F005
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road, Sheffield S10 1FL
Phone: +44 (0)114 222 3231
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 3348
Email: P.Warr@sheffield.ac.uk
 Prof Peter Warr

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

Areas of Expertise

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., Bindl, U. K., Parker, S. K., & Inceoglu, I. (in press). Four-quadrant investigation of job-related affects and behaviours. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.

Warr, P. B. (2013) Jobs and job-holders: Two sources of happiness and unhappiness. In S. A. David, I.Boniwell, and A. C. Ayers (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Happiness (pp.733-750). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Warr, P. B., & Inceoglu, I. (2012). Job engagement, job satisfaction, and contrasting associations with person-job fit. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 17, 129-138.

Inceoglu, I., & Warr, P. B. (2011). Personality and job engagement. Journal of Personnel Psychology, 10, 177-181.

Warr, P. B. (2013). How to think about and measure psychological well-being. In R. R. Sinclair, M. Wang, and L. E. Tetrick (eds.), Research Methods in Occupational Health Psychology (pp. 76-90). New York and London: Routledge.

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.