Muhammad Ali is a PhD candidate in Human Resource Management at the Melbourne
Business School. 

Muhammad’s research focuses on HR practices and workforce diversity. He is particularly
interested in studying the impact of HR practices (including equal opportunity practices)
and workforce diversity on organisational performance. He is also conducting research to
investigate whether workforce diversity has a different impact in different industries. 

Muhammad’s teaching interests lie in the areas of human resource management, managing
diversity, organisational behaviour and strategic management. He has taught at different
levels over the past ten years. In 2006, he was invited to deliver a lecture on managing
workforce diversity, his area of expertise, to post-graduate students at the Department
of Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne. 

Prior to joining the MBA program at California State University, Muhammad worked in
industry in HR positions for four years. He is a member of the Academy of Management, the
Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management and the Australian Human Resources
Institute.

Journal Articles

The impact of organizational gender diversity on performance: Does industry type matter? (with Carol T. Kulik and Isabel Metz), Under Review at International Journal of Human Resource Management (2009)

Empirical findings on the link between gender diversity and performance have been inconsistent. This paper...

 

Conference Papers

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The impact of gender diversity on performance in services and manufacturing organizations (with Carol T. Kulik and Isabel Metz), Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings (2009)

We test three competing predictions of the main organizational gender diversity-performance relationship and a moderating...

 

The gender diversity-performance link: Does industry type matter? (with Isabel Metz and Carol T. Kulik), Proceedings of the 22nd ANZAM Conference (2008)

Research on workforce diversity gained momentum in the 1990s. However, empirical findings to date on...

 

Workforce gender diversity: Is it a source of competitive advantage? (with Isabel Metz and Carol T. Kulik), Proceedings of the 21st ANZAM Conference (2007)

Research on workforce diversity at the organisational level gained momentum in the 1990s, because of...