Janet Mantler

When university students graduate and enter the workforce, they often retain their identity as a student for a while. I am investigating the conditions that influence graduates to develop an identity as someone who works. I’m also interested in transitions at mid-career. After some time in the workforce, people often feel discontented – what does it take to help these people move into a different and more satisfying career?

I’m working with a pan-Canadian team of researchers and organizational partners to understand when people take a leave of absence from work for mental health issues and what facilitates their return to work. We are approaching this research through a lens of intersectionality and examining mental health and leaves of absence for seven professions across Canada. This research is funded by a SSHRC/CIHR Partnership grant.

Recently my students and I have undertaken a series of studies to investigate the effect of implicit bias on hiring female leaders. We found that front line staff tend to prefer to work for female leaders, yet women are less likely to be promoted to leadership roles. We are interested in interventions to improve gender representation in leadership.

People tend to be happiest when they have satisfying and meaningful work and, if they work with a team, have a team with high morale, which leads them to be even more engaged with their work. I am currently looking at the association of team morale and employee engagement over time by assessing team morale on a monthly basis. One of my students and I have also recently examined the opposite of a high-morale workplace to explore what a toxic workplace looks like and how it harms the employees.

A lot has been said about entitlement among young people; I am interested in what managers and others do in the workplace that can increase or decrease a sense of entitlement among employees, particularly those just entering the workforce. And what happens when an entitled employee doesn’t receive the rewards they are expecting?

Mantler, J., Campbell, B., & Dupré, K.E. (2021). Jobs, careers, and callings: Exploring work orientation at mid-career. Journal of Career Development.

Tulk, C., Mantler, J., & Dupré, K. E. (2021). The impact of job accommodations on stereotyping and emotional responses to coworkers with anxiety or depression. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, 53(2), 138.

Nesdoly, N., Tulk, C., & Mantler, J. (2019). The effects of perceived professor competence, warmth, and gender on students’ likelihood to register for a course. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. doi:10.1080/02602938.2019.1689381

Uysal Irak, D. & Mantler, J. (2017). The role of temporal flexibility on person-environment fit and job satisfaction. Journal of Management and Organization, 24 (6), 829 – 845. doi:10.1017/jmo.2017.50

Ivey, G. W., Blanc, J-R. S., & Mantler, J. (2015). An assessment of the overlap between morale and work engagement in a non-operational military sample. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 20, 338 – 347. doi: 10.1037/a0038559

Mantler, J., Godin, J., Cameron, S.J., & Horsburgh, M. E. (2015). Cynicism in hospital staff nurses: The effect of intention to leave and job change over time. Journal of Nursing Management, 23, 577 – 587. doi: 10:1111/jonm.12183

Rasouli, M., Dyke, L., & Mantler, J. (2008). The role of language and career management: Self-efficacy in the career adjustment of immigrant women. The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, 8, 33 – 42.

Mantler, J., Armstrong-Stassen, M., Horsburgh, M. E., & Cameron, S. J. (2006). Reactions of staff nurses to the use of recruitment incentives. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 28, 70 – 84.

Mantler, J., & Tulk, C. (2021, May). Working during COVID-19: A Seven-Wave Study of Work and Mental Health-Related Outcomes. Flash talk presented at the 2021 APS Virtual Convention.

Tulk, C., & Mantler, J. (2021, June). Gender, income, and work-family conflict during COVID-19. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychology Association.

Mantler, J., Tulk, C., & Luo, Y. (2020, August). Working during COVID-19. Gimme-5 video presented online at the Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association.

Mantler, J., Power, N., James, Y., Demers, C., Tulk, C., Young, C., & Bourgeault. (2019, November). “I’m a little too macho for that”: Mental health, gender, and leaves of absence in academia. Paper presented at the Work, Stress, and Health Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

Tulk, C., & Mantler, J. (2019, November). The impact of accommodations on mental health stigma. Poster presented at the Work, Stress, and Health conference, Philadelphia, PA.

Power, N., Mantler, J., James, Y., Demers, C., Tulk, C., Young, C., & Bourgeault, I. (2019, June). A gender analysis of the mental health, leaves of absence and return to work experiences of professional workers. Paper presented at the Canadian-Australian Health Sociology Conference, Vancouver, BC.

Ivey, G., Blais, A-R., & Mantler, J. (2019, April).  An evidence-based model of morale: So what for leaders? Paper presented at the NATO Human Factors and Medicine Panel Symposium. Berlin.

Mantler, J., Atanackovic, J., James, Y. Ahmed, N., Demers, C., & Bourgeault, I. L. (2018, October). Taking a mental health leave of absence: A pilot study examining occupation and gender differences. Paper presented at the 10^th conference of the Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health, Vancouver, BC.

Ivey, G. W., Mantler, J., Blais, A-R., Kelloway, E. K., & Forest, J. (2018, June). Army leadership and morale study: Optimizing individual and group morale and behaviour through leadership. Paper presented at the 29^th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Montreal.

Marcu, C., Mantler, J., & Tulk, C. (2018, June). The modern advantage – Improving female candidates hireability? Poster presented at the 29^th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Montreal.

Tulk, C., Mantler, J., & Marcu, C. (2018, June). Hiring a leader: Does gender still matter? Poster presented at the 29^th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Montreal.

Huggins, J., & Mantler, J. (2017, June). Entitled behaviour at work: Developing a new measure of workplace entitlement. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association. Toronto, ON.

Mantler, J., Howard, A., & Guardado, R. (2017, June). The interaction of employability skills and self-control for improving the likelihood of career success for university graduates. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association. Toronto, ON.

Tulk, C., Mantler, J., Dupre, K., & Campbell, B. (2017, June). Gender differences in mid-career? A test of the Kaleidoscope career model. Poster presented at the annual convention of the Canadian Psychological Association. Toronto, ON.

Martynova, E. & Mantler, J. (2016, Oct). Connecting transformational leader to employee well-being through work engagement: A gendered perspective. Paper presented to the Carleton University Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work Annual Research Forum.

Mantler, J. (2016, May). Using cuPortfolio to highlight employability skills. Paper presented at Carleton University Active Engagement: Success in the classroom and beyond.