Carol Gill has specialised in the fields of executive learning and development,
human resource management and organisation development, as both an academic and
practitioner, for more than 25 years. 

Carol teaches on the MBA and designs and delivers executive education programs in
Leadership, Change and Human Resource Management for Melbourne Business School. A
registered psychologist, Carol has worked in key roles within major Australian private
and public sector organisations and global enterprises in areas as diverse as leadership
and executive development, human resources, workplace performance, employee relations,
recruitment and change management. 

At BHP, she was a director of the company’s Global Leadership Program and was involved in
the teams that introduced TQM and executed a division-wide process reengineering project
and subsequently became an evaluator for the Australian Business Excellence Awards. 

Carol has worked with a range of private sector clients including Australian Eagle,HBA,
ANZ, Bank of Melbourne, BHP (Corporate, Minerals, Petroleum, Steel, Engineering), Morgan
& Banks, Clarke Hummerston, CitiPower, United Energy, Austa Electric (Queensland),
Ericsson, National Mutual, Mallinckrodt Australia, Exxon Mobil, Bunnings. 

In the public and not-for profit sectors, she has worked with Office of Corrections,
Industrial Relations Victoria, Department of Aviation, State Revenue Office, Business
Victoria, State Development Department, Victorian Legal Aid, Dental Health Services
Victoria, VicForests, Australian Vice Chancellors Committee, Fundraisers Institute of
Australia, Bureau of Meteorology. 

Carol holds a PhD, MBA, BA (hons)and Graduate Diploma of Social Science. She is a member
of the Australian Psychological Society and College of Organisational Psychologists. She
is also a fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute. 

Copies of working papers can be obtained by emailing the author on c.gill@mbs.edu

Articles

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Union Impact on the Effective Adoption of High Performance Work Practices, Human Resource Management Review (2009)
This paper examines the literature and research on unions relevant to the effective adoption of...
 

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How unions impact on the state of the psychological contract to facilitate the adoption of new work practices, New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations (2009)
This article draws together empirical research in the psychological contract, trust, unions and NWP literatures...
 

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High and Low Road Approaches to the management of Human Resources: An Examination of the Relationship between Business Strategy, Human Resource Management and High Performance Work Practices (with Denny Meyer), International Journal of Employment Studies (2008)
The Contingency approach to human resource management leads to the hypothesis that High Performance Work...
 

Working Papers

How unions impact on the state of the psychological contract to facilitate the adoption of new work practices (2008)
This article draws together extant knowledge from the psychological contract, trust, union and new work...
 

The impact of culture on inter and intra organization supply chains at Nissan (2008)
This paper examines how national and organizational culture influences supply chain management. To do this...
 

The relationship between New Work Practices, trust and unions (2008)
This paper examines extant theory and empirical research on new work methods, employee voice, employee...
 

A Review of the Critical Perspective on Human Resource Management (2007)
The Critical Perspective on Human Resource Management argues that HRM has inherent contradictions derived from...
 

Does Human Resource Management use rhetoric to construct reality for employees? (with Denny Meyer) (2007)
The Critical Management Studies debate on Human Resource Management proposes that reality is socially constructed...