Associate Professor Diana Kelly is currently Head, History and Politics, at the University of Wollongong, where she has served in academic roles since 1983. Diana has taught almost all areas of employment relations/industrial relations (ER/IR) as well as research Methods, history of business ideas, HRM, Organisational behaviour and comparative economic systems. Her research areas have included most areas of ER/IR, particularly with reference to the steel industry, as well as history of ER/IR and management thought, OHS and workplace bullying, internationalisation of higher education, research methods in ER/IR, corporate social responsibility and human resource development from a variety of perspectives. She has been a member of the editorial board of the journal of Industrial Relations, and was made an Honorary Life Member of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand in 1999. Diana has undertaken a number of university-wide roles including Deputy Chair of Academic Senate and Deputy Chair of the University Internationalisation Committee.
Articles
WorkChoices and workplace bullying: more disadvantages for women workers under the new legislation, Illawarra Unity - Journal of the Illawarra Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (2008)
Considerable evidence points to an increase in workplace bullying, in large part as a consequence...
The 2007 Federal election in Australia: Framing Industrial Relations, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2008)
The 2007 Federal election campaigns in Australia were characterised by three factors. Most notably, industrial...
Reviewing Workplace Bullying: Strengthening Approaches to a Complex Phenomenon, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
Workplace bullying is a growing problem which is costly for organisations and individual targets. The...
Marxist Manager amidst the Progressives: Walter N Polakov and the Taylor Society, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2004)
In recent years scholars have re-evaluated Taylorism and have shown that the heart of the...
The transmission of ideas in employment relations: Dunlop and Oxford in the development of Australian industrial relations thought, 1960-1985, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2004)
The primary objective of this paper is to understand the extent to which Australian industrial...
Presentations
Human Resource Development: For Enterprise and Human Development , Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
The term human resource development, or more commonly HRD, is widely used. Yet it has...
Workplace Bullying, Women and WorkChoices, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
Considerable evidence points to an increase in workplace bullying, in large part as a consequence...
Workplace bullying - a complex issue neeing IR/HRM research?, Faculty of Arts - Papers (2006)
Workplace bullying encompasses a wide array of targeted, persistent and destructive behaviours, usually by managers...
A continuous association …: AIRAANZ as a scholarly association , Faculty of Arts - Papers (2005)
Over twenty years ago industrial relations academics in Australia and New Zealand formed a scholarly...
Internationalisation: A Whole-of-Institution Approach (with R. G. Castle), Faculty of Arts - Papers (2004)
In this paper we first clarify and analyse notions of what internationalisation is and the...