Dr Carla Anne Houkamau

DPhil in Social Psychology, BA (Hons) with First Class Honours in Psychology, BA (conjoint) in Psychology and BCom (conjoint) in Management & Employment Relations.

Associate Dean

In: Management and International Business » Faculty of Business and Economics

Biography

Carla Houkamau (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management and International Business. Carla joined the Department in 2007 as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow. She completed her PhD in Psychology at The University of Auckland under the Health Research Council Scholarship programme as well as a Bachelor of Commerce (Conjoint) in Management and Employment Relations. Carla specialises in the areas of personal identity and diversity management. Her current research programme is concerned with the business case for diversity management: in particular, how diversity management can foster a positive work environment for individuals from diverse backgrounds while promoting employee engagement and productivity.

Special Interests:

Diversity management, inter-cultural communication, cross-cultural management

Psychological (particularly social psychological) understandings of identity

Teaching | Current

2012	BUSINESS 151 G	Communication in a Multicultural Society
2012-current	MGMT 314	Critical Issues in Organisations
2011	BUS 151 G	Intercultural Communication
2011	IB 303	Cross-cultural Management
2011	MGMT 317	Diversity at Work

2014-current BUSINT 701 Business Research

Distinctions/Honours

2006	National Maori Academic Excellence Award
2000	New Zealand Psychological Society – Presidents Scholar
1998	Senior Prize for Management & Employment Relations - The University of Auckland

Responsibilities

Director - University of Auckland Business School Tuakana Programme

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Stronge, S., Sengupta, N. K., Barlow, F. K., Osborne, D., Houkamau, C. A., & Sibley, C. G. (2016). Perceived discrimination predicts increased support for political rights and life satisfaction mediated by ethnic identity: A longitudinal analysis. Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology, 22 (3), 359-368. 10.1037/cdp0000074
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/31555
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Sam Stronge, Danny Osborne, Chris Sibley
Muriwai, E., Houkamau, C. A., & Sibley, C. (2015). Culture as cure? The protective function of Māori cultural efficacy on psychological distress. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 44 (2), 14-24.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Chris Sibley
Houkamau, C., & Boxall, P. (2015). Attitudes to other ethnicities among New Zealand workers. Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, 22 (3), 431-446. 10.1108/CCM-10-2013-0155
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Peter Boxall
Houkamau, C. A., & Sibley, C. G. (2015). The Revised Multidimensional Model of Māori Identity and Cultural Engagement (MMM-ICE2). Social Indicators Research, 122 (1), 279-296. 10.1007/s11205-014-0686-7
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Chris Sibley
Greaves, L., Houkamau, C., & Sibley, C. (2015). Māori Identity Signatures: A Latent Profile Analysis of the Types of Māori Identity. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 21 (4), 541-549. 10.1037/cdp0000033
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Lara Greaves, Chris Sibley
Houkamau, C. A., & Sibley, C. G. (2015). Looking Māori predicts decreased rates of home ownership: institutional racism in housing based on perceived appearance. PloS one, 10 (3)10.1371/journal.pone.0118540
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Chris Sibley
Houkamau, C. A., & Boxall, P. (2014). Diversity climate as a mediator of organisational trust. Paper presented at Australian New Zealand Academy of Management, Sydney, Australia. 3 December - 5 December 2014. Proceedings of the Australian New Zealand Academy of Management 28th Annual Conference. Related URL.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Peter Boxall
Houkamau, C. A., & Sibley, C. G. (2014). Social identity and differences in psychological and economic outcomes for mixed and sole-identified Maori. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 40, 113-125. 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2014.03.001
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Chris Sibley