Michael's research activities and publications lie mainly in human resource management. Recently he has been increasingly involved in collaborative team research and publication through the Centre for Change Management (previously known as the BHP Steel Institute Management Program). He is currently working on a new project relating to Comparative HRM and Organizational Change in the Asia Pacific. Michael is the Head of the Employment Relations Discipline in the School of Management and Marketing at the University of Wollongong. When he joined the University he brought with him extensive experience in personnel management, having worked as Personnel Manager for a major national retailer for a number of years and a management consultant prior to that. He is an active member of professional bodies, being involved as an organiser and presenter at conferences, including the International Employment Relations Association Conference held in Wollongong in 1998, and as an academic referee for professional journals such as the Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources and the International Employment Relations Review. Michael is also an active member of the University, particularly in areas relating to OH&S. He has been a member of the Academic Senate since 1997.
Articles
Cultural issues in organisational change: the case of the Australian Services Union (with Patrick M. Dawson), Employment Relations Record (2009)
Trade union renewal in the context of a changing socio-political business environment remains a central...
Innovation and HRM: absences and politics (with Richard Badham, Paul Couchman, and Maren Schubert), International Journal of Human Resource Management (2008)
This article analyses the role of HRM practices in the implementation of an innovative cross-functional...
Reconfigured domains: alternative pathways for the international wine industry (with David Aylward), International Journal of Technology Policy and Management (2008)
The international wine landscape has undergone dramatic changes over the past 20 years. The two-dimensional...
Rebels without Applause: Time and Politics in Critical Action Research (with R. J. Badham and K. Garrety), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2007)
Purpose of this paper: This paper seeks to raise for discussion and reflection some of...
Rebels without applause: time, politics and irony in action research (with Richard Badham and Karin Garrety), Management Research News (2007)
Purpose – This paper seeks to raise for discussion and reflection some of the key...
Presentations
Embedding professionally relevant learning in the business curriculum through industry engagement (with Theo Papadopoulos, Eveline Fallshaw, Tracy Taylor, Clare Woodley, and Christine Armatas), 24th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (2010)
This paper reports on preliminary findings from an ALTC funded project on how to build...
Innovative workplace change: social well-being and health (with Patrick M. Dawson), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2009)
Emerging Interorganizational Structures in the Australian Wine Industry: Implications for SMEs (with D. K. Aylward), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2006)
This paper discusses the globalization of the wine industry in terms of such issues as...
The play of power and politics in innovation and HRM (with Richard Badham, Paul Couchman, and Maren Schubert), In J. Kennedy & L. Di Milia (Eds.), Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (pp. 1-20) (2006)
This paper analyses the human resource management (HRM) practices involved in the implementation of a...
Understanding Worker Motivation in the Australian Film Industry (with M. L. Jones and G. Kriflik), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2005)
The Australian Film Industry operates in an environment which is uniquely challenging. Workers in the...