About the Australian Authors

Helen De Cieri (PHD, University of Tasmania) is a Professor in the Department of Management at Monash University and the Director of the Australian Centre for Research in Employment and Work (ACREW). Her teaching experience includes appointments in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and the USA. Helen teaches undergraduate and graduate students in HRM, strategic HRM and international HRM. Her consulting experience includes projects with private and public sector organisations in Australia and overseas. Helen’s research has appeared in leading international academic journals such as the Journal of Management, Human Resource Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Management International Review. From 1996 to 2002, Helen was the editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources. She currently serves on the editorial boards of several international academic journals. Helen’s current research interests include strategic HRM in multinational enterprises, work-life management, and the management of global mobility.

Robin Kramar (PHD, University of Sydney) has been keenly interested in issues associated with people in the workplace for more than thirty years. She is currently Deputy Dean and Professor of Management at Macquarie Graduate School of Management and Director of the Centre of Australasian Human Resource Management. She has held academic positions at a number of universities, including the University of Rennes 1, the University of New South Wales and University of Sydney. Her current role involves lecturing to MBA and Master of Management students in Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore. Robin's research and consultancy specialities currently focus on strategic human resource management, diversity management, knowledge management and sustainability. She has been funded by the Department of Environment and Water to develop initiatives in the area of ‘education for and about sustainability’ at MGSM. Robin’s research activities have culminated in the publication of six books and more than twenty articles in refereed journals, almost thirty chapters in books, and numerous refereed conference papers and monographs. Robin is keen to develop links between academic activities and practitioner requirements, and has been actively involved in the development of management education. She was editor of the journal Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources from 2002 to 2007.

About the Original Authors

Raymond A Noe is the Robert and Anne Hoyt Professor of Management at The Ohio State University. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and winner of the 2000 American Society for Training and Development Research Award. JOHN R. HOLLENBECK is Eli Broad Professor of Management at the Eli Broad Graduate School of Business Administration at Michigan State University, East Lansing. He was the first recipient of the Ernest J. McCormick Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to the field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Barry Gerhart holds the Bruce R. Ellig Distinguished Chair in Pay and Organizational Effectiveness and is Director of the Strategic Human Resources Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has worked for organisations including TRW, Corning, and Bausch and Lomb.

Patric M Wright is Professor and Director of the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies at Cornell University, and has consulted for such companies as Whirlpool, Amoco, and the government of the state of North Carolina. Each member of the US Human Resource Management author team has extensive experience both in the teaching and in the practice of human resources, and their expertise has earned them the respect and acclaim of their peers. Collectively the authors have published scores of articles and books, and served on the editorial boards of leading publications, including the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

About the Contributing Authors

Peter J Dowling (PHD, Flinders University) is Professor of International Business at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and has authored Chapter 16 (International HRM). Previous appointments include The University of Melbourne, Monash University, the University of Tasmania and University of Canberra. Peter has also held visiting appointments at Cornell and Michigan State Universities in the USA and the University of Paderborn and the University of Bayreuth in Germany.

Peter’s current research interests are concerned with International HRM, International Management and Strategic Management. He has written or co-authored four books and over seventy journal articles and book chapters and serves on the editorial boards of a number of profesional journals.

Peter is a past National Vice-President of the Australian Human Resources Institute and a Life Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute. Currently, he is Vice-President of the Australia & New Zealand International Business Academy, President-Elect of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) and a Senior Research Affiliate of the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies at Cornell University.

Michelle Greenwood (MA, Boston University) has authored Chapter 15 (Ethics and human resource management) especially for this text. Michelle is an academic at the Department of Management at Monash University where she has taught and researched in the area of Business Ethics for twelve years. Her specific fields of interest are ethical issues in HRM, stakeholder theory and social and ethical auditing. Michelle currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Business Ethics.

Peter Holland (PHD, University of Tasmania) has adapted Chapter 13 (Managing compensation) from the international edition on which this book is based. He is a senior lecturer in Human Resource Management and Employee Relations at Monash University. His current research interests are in the areas of reward management, new patterns of work organisation and monitoring and surveillance.

Suzanne Jamieson (BA; LLB, University of New South Wales; Grad Dip Pub Sect Mgt, University of Technology, Sydney; LLM; SJD, University of Sydney) has authored Chapter 3 (The legal context for human resource management) from the International Edition on which this book is based. She has taught at the University of Sydney since 1990 after a career as a senior public servant and a trade union official. Since 1991 she has represented the National Pay Equity Coalition in national wage cases before the Australian Industrial Relations Commission and in the extensive litigation around equal pay for women in the New South Wales industrial jurisdiction. Her other principal research interest is in occupational health and safety. Suzanne is a member of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board and is the Director of the University of Sydney’s Celtic Studies Foundation.

Andrew Smith (MA, Cambridge, MBA, University of Aston, PHD, University of Tasmania) has authored Chapter 11 (Learning and development). He is Professor of Human Resource Management in the Faculty of Business and Director of Research Development at Charles Sturt University. Until recently Andrew was Head of the School of Commerce and previously of the School of Management for a number of years. From 1999–2002 he was General Manager, Research and Evaluation at the National Centre for Vocational Education Research in Adelaide. At CSU Andrew has played a leading role in research development. Andrew has a PHD in the area of enterprise training, which is his particular field of expertise. Andrew has led a number of research projects in the area of workplace training and organisational innovation and change. He is Director of the CSU’s Centre for Organisational Performance, Ethics and Leadership (OPEL). Andrew is the author of numerous articles on aspects of employment and training and Training and Development in Australia published by Butterworths.

Julian Teicher (PHD, University of Melbourne) has co-authored Chapter 5 (Industrial relations) with Bernadine van Gramberg especially for this text. Julian is the Director of the Graduate School of Business at Monash University. He holds academic qualifications in economics, industrial relations and law. Julian’s recent research has spanned privatisation, public sector reform, teamwork and the impact of information and communications technologies on work.

Berandine Van Gramberg (PHD, Monash University) has co-authored Chapter 5 (Industrial relations) with Julian Teicher. Bernadine is the Head of School of Management at Victoria University where she also teaches mediation, conciliation and arbitration. She has over twelve years experience in the field of dispute resolution at both corporate and consulting levels, with a professional background in managing equal employment, workplace harassment and bullying disputes. Bernadine has over sixty publications to her credit and has recently written Managing Workplace Conflict: Alternative Dispute Resolution in Australia, published by Federation Press.