People and Organization Research Centre

STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTS

Professor Mary Barrett

• The learning organization-learning
  OF and learning BY organizations
• Career development and leadership issues
• Learning through organizational
  communication processes

Professor Patrick Dawson

• Change processes in organizations
• Storytelling and change
• Rural maternity services and change
• Cellular manufacture
• Social innovation

Dr Mario Fernando

• Well-being of employees
• Workplace spirituality and
  performance
• Ethics and HRM

Dr Karin Garrety

• Organizational control and the self
• Human factors and information strategy

Dr Zeenobiyah Hannif

• Human resources practices in the call centre industry
• Employment experiences of workers in non-standard and precarious working arrangements
• Quality of work life
• Managing diversity
• Occupational health and safety in the services sector

Associate Professor Helen Hasan

• Information systems as Socio-Technical Systems Knowledge Management through Communities of Practice
• Activity Theory and Systems Dynamics approaches to research
• Human Computer Interaction in the context of collective human activity
• Network Centric Configurations in organisations

Dr Michael Jones

• Organizational behaviour,
  specifically motivation and commitment

Dr Elias Kyriazis

• Organizational design
• Interpersonal trust
• Organizational culture/climate
• Role of management in fostering a positive working environment

Peter McLean

• Performance management
• Organizational discourse
• Identity and resistance
• Human resource management-critical studies

Professor Judy Motion

• Organizational identity, discourses and change
• Critical discourse analysis
• Socially and culturally innovative and sustainable business practices

Matt Ngui

• Interorganizational cooperation
• Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum
• Cross cultural management

Dr James Reveley

• Self-identity in organizations
• Critical analysis of HRM practices
• Historicality and the individual
• Aborginal enrepreneurship
• Management history

Janette Rowland

• Trust in cross-functional teams
• The influence of team climate on collaboration

Dr Andrew Sense

• Project based learning
• Innovation and change
  management
• Organizational learning
• Project management

Associate Professor A B Sim

• Internationalism strategies of emerging Asian multinational firms
• Performance of IJVs and strategic alliances
• Turnaround strategies
• Strategic management issues

Dr Anne Vo

• International and comparative HRM, focusing on Asian countries
• Transfer of multinational
  companies' IR/HRM policies and practices across borders
• Transformation of HR systems in developing countries

Christa Wood

• Performance appraisal in the Public Service
• Critical discourse analysis
• Strategic HRM

Associate Professor Michael Zanko

• Human resource management as practice
• International and comparative HRM
• Socially innovative occupational health and safety management
• Interorganizational relations