| Formal Name: Paul J. Gollan
Personal Title: Dr.
Position: Associate Professor, Director of Research
Organisational Unit: Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Business Telephone: (+61-2) 9850-8565
Fax: (+61-2) 9850-6065 Email: pgollan@efs.mq.edu.au Location: E4A 642 Websites: Publications
To read more about Paul's current research interests, view this article from the Department of Business "Australian industrial relations reform in perspective"
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Profile
Dr Paul J. Gollan holds a MSc (Econ) and PhD from the London School of Economics and is currently an Associate Professor and Director of Research in Department of Business at Macquarie University. He is also Associate Fellow in the Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Adjunct Professor at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management. He is also currently Visiting Senior Fellow at the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales. Previously he was a Lecturer in the Department of Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics.
He has lectured at a number of universities and colleges throughout the United Kingdom and Australia. Originating in Australia, Paul has also previously held a number of Senior Research and Lecture positions at Macquarie University, University of Sydney, Imperial College London and Kings College London in the UK. Paul has authored, co-authored and co-edited a number of books in the fields of human resources and industrial relations including Employee relations in the press (1997), Models of employee participation in a changing global environment – diversity and interaction (2001), Partnership at work: The challenge of employee democracy, Works Councils in Australia – future prospects and possibilities and Employee Representation in Non-Union Firms (2007). He is also author for Strategic human resource management: a critical review (Sage Publications) and co-editor for The Oxford Handbook of Participation in Organizations, (Oxford University Press) both due for release in 2010.
Paul has published and/or guest editor on employee participation issues for a number of leading academic journals. These include: Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Resource Management; Industrial Relations Journal; Industrial Relations – A Journal of Economy and Society (Berkeley); Human Relations; Employee Relations: The International Journal Human Resource Management; International Journal of Operations and Production Management; Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations; Personnel Review; Economic and Industrial Democracy; Journal of Industrial Relations. He is co-editor of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations and a consulting editor for the International Journal of Management Reviews.
In 2008 he was instructional design advisor and subject specialist for Australian Human Resources Institute Professional Diploma of Human Resources. He is also Chief Investigator on a number recent competitive research grants in including:, ‘Impact of Management Practices on Firm Performance’ (with Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research); ‘The impact of employee voice on organisational value and performance’ (External Collaborative Research Grant); and Australian Research Council Linkage Grant ‘Human Resource Managers Contribution to Workplace Performance’ (with Australian Human Resource Institute). The Total of his current research grants total in excess of $1.2 million.
Paul is a regular contributor on workplace issues for The Canberra Times, The Age and a regular columnist on workplace issues for the Australian Financial Review. He is also a regular columnist for the CCH publication Work Alert. He is also an occasional workplace relations expert for BBC and ABC radio and television, and consulted for a number of private and government organisations on workplace relations, human resource management and organisational change issues. Paul is Fellow of Australian Human Resources Institute and Examiner for University of London Human Resource Management External BSc Programmes.
In 2002 he won an 'Award for Excellence' for his paper 'Tunnel vision: non-union employee representation at Eurotunnel', published in Employee Relations and judged by the editors as the most 'Outstanding Paper' in 2001. In 2003 he was a winner in the Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (AILR)/Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA) Best Paper Competition. In 2008 he was named in the most influential list for ‘The ones to watch’ in Human Resources Magazine Most Influential HR People in the UK.
