Maree Roche Explained

Maree Roche
Thesis1 Title:Navigating Leaders' Wellbeing: What Does Self Determination Theory Contribute?
Thesis1 Url:https://hdl.handle.net/10289/7407
Thesis1 Year:2013

Maree Roche is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in leadership, employee wellbeing and indigenous perspectives. Roche is the manutaki (director) of the university's Dame Mira Szászy Centre for Leading Māori Workforce Development. She is a Fellow of the New Zealand Psychological Society and of the Positive Organisational Behaviour Institute in the US.

Academic career

Roche is Māori, and affiliates to Ngāti Raukawa. Roche completed a PhD titled Navigating Leaders' Wellbeing: What Does Self Determination Theory Contribute? at the University of Waikato, supervised by Jarrod Haar and David McKie.[1] Roche then joined the faculty of the University of Waikato, where she was promoted to associate professor in 2021,[2] before moving to Auckland, rising to full professor. Since 2023 Roche leads the Dame Mira Szászy Centre for Leading Māori Workforce Development at Auckland.[3] She is a chartered member of the Human Resource Management Institute of New Zealand.

Roche researches leadership psychology, employee wellbeing, and indigenous perspectives on wellbeing and engagement. She covers such issues as the impacts of workplace bullying, workplace productivity, and changes in workforce pressure over time.[4] [5] [6]

Honours and awards

Roche was elected a Fellow of the New Zealand Psychological Society, and of the Positive Organisational Behavior Institute in America. [7]

Selected works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Navigating Leaders' Wellbeing: What Does Self Determination Theory Contribute?. Roche. Maree. PhD thesis. Waikato Research Commons, University of Waikato. 2013. 10289/7407 .
  2. Web site: New Professorial Appointments for Waikato :: University of Waikato . 2024-06-09 . www.waikato.ac.nz . en-nz.
  3. Web site: University of Auckland . Academic profile: Professor Maree Roche . 2024-06-09 . profiles.auckland.ac.nz.
  4. Web site: 2024-06-09 . Bullies scourge of workplace - New Zealand News . 2024-06-09 . NZ Herald . en-NZ.
  5. Web site: 2022-05-28 . SunLive - Budget ignores workforce pressures - The Bay's News First . 2024-06-09 . www.sunlive.co.nz . en.
  6. Web site: HRNZ: Transforming HRM in Aotearoa . 2024-06-09 . www.hrnz.org.nz.
  7. Web site: Our people - The University of Auckland . 2024-06-09 . www.auckland.ac.nz.