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Risky Harisa Haslan is an Assistant Professor in Workplace Diversity and Digital Innovation at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. She's currently the Faculty of Arts and Social Science's Digital Learning Director. She lectures Introduction to Digital Business, Organisational Behaviour, Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Managing Organisations and Markets. Risky was born and raised in Indonesia. She completed her undergraduate degree in Management Studies at the University of Nottingham Malaysia in 2009, and later that year she pursued her MSc in Management Psychology at the University of Nottingham, UK. A year after completing her MSc in 2010, Risky decided to do her PhD in Applied Psychology at the University of Nottingham Malaysia in 2011, where she eventually became a lecturer.
Risky mainly concentrates on aspects of management psychology. She is greatly interested in workplace diversity (specifically genders, races, sexual orientations, and psychological conditions), coaching, occupational health, and digital innovation. Throughout her research activities, she has worked with organisations (including Indonesian state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and family firms) that were interested in understanding further the management psychology aspects of their organisations. In one of her early works with a state-owned enterprise (SOE), she developed a mentoring and coaching system that would fit the SOE's cultural context and trained managerial level employees to develop their psychological capital through action learning. She's also interested in raising awareness of well-being at work and what organisations can do to manage their employees' occupational health and to reduce work-related burnout, especially among neurodivergent employees. In recent years, Risky is interested in digital innovation and how it impacts how businesses operates.
Risky received The Most High-Tech Lecturer in 2016 from the Student Association University of Nottingham Malaysia. She also received a Lord Dearing Award from the University of Nottingham in July 2018 and Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award from the Faculty of Arts and Social Science in 2019 for her outstanding contribution to the development of teaching and student learning.
Expertise Summary
Risky is a Certified Action Learning Coach (CALC) from World Institute of Action Learning (WIAL) and is recognised as a Fellow of Advance HE (Formerly known as UK Higher Education Academy). She's also has certifications in Cultural Impact Scale and Team Psychological Safety.
Teaching Summary
Risky is currently teaching the following modules:
- Introduction to Digital Business (UG)
- Organisational Behaviour (UG)
- Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PG)
- Managing Organisations and Markets (PG)
Risky has taught the following modules:
- Person and Society (Foundation)
- Group and Interpersonal Dynamics (Foundation)
- Introduction to Applied Psychology (UG)
- People, Work, and Organisation (UG)
- People, Group, and Society (Foundation)
- Applied Research Methods (PG)
- Occupational Health Psychology (UG)
- People, Technology, and Wellbeing (PG)
- Psychology of Work, Management, and Organisation (PG)
- Qualitative Research Methods (PG)
- Research in Applied Psychology (UG)
- Selection and Training in Organisations (UG)
- Social Science 1 (Foundation)
- Strategic Human Resource Management and Workplace Diversity (PG)
Research Summary
Risky generally is interested in management psychology. Her main interest involves generational gaps at work, organisational change, Asian leadership styles, inclusive workplace for neurodivergent… read more
Recent Publications
KHAN, A., HASLAN, R.H. and RAMOS, H.M., 2025. Navigating Through Work Post-Pandemic - Experiences of Middle-Income Employees in Malaysia Malaysian Journal of Qualitative Research. 11(1), 31-42 HASLAN, R.H., RAMOS, H.M., BADRI, S.K.Z., CHUNG, J.Y. and SOO, C.W., 2023. Developing an intervention to support students’ experiences with remote learning – an Action Learning and Emotional Regulation Approach In: Tri-Campus Teaching and Learning Conference 2023, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
CHUNG, J.Y., HASLAN, R.H. and BADRI, S.K.Z., 2023. Exploring Fandom-related Occupation as a Career in Malaysia In: Malaysian Psychology Students Assembly, Subang Jaya (2023), Malaysia.
Current Research
Risky generally is interested in management psychology. Her main interest involves generational gaps at work, organisational change, Asian leadership styles, inclusive workplace for neurodivergent employees, and digital innovation.
Past Research
In the past, Risky has done research on Psychological Contracts among Indoneisan State Owned Enterprise's employees. She finds the context of State Owned Enterprise in South East Asia as really interesting. Her research explored employees' perception of psychological contract, which seemed to be affected by the culture and the type of company they were in.
Her PhD concentrated on the concept of coping in organisational change, as well as the role of individual differences in this - specifically personality traits and emotional intelligence. She also explored the relationship between aspects of strategic & human resource management (such as organisational change, organisational development, etc) and applied psychology theories (such as individual differences, coping behaviours, etc).
Future Research
Going forward, Risky is planning on exploring the use of Action Learning as an emotion focus approach to individual's well-being and how digital innovation may contribute to this.