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Fiona Edgar 2023 imageBCom(Hons) PhD DipGrad(Otago) NZCSMgmt

Professor
Head of Department

Room: OBS 703
Tel +64 3 479 8091
Email fiona.edgar@otago.ac.nz

Fiona teaches and researches in human resource management, industrial relations. She worked in industry for a number of years prior to entering tertiary education. Fiona was a recipient of a Bright Futures Doctoral Scholarship. Her PhD examined the impact of legislation on HRM policy and practice. Her current research interests include HRM and, in particular, how HRM impacts on employees in the workplace, as well as the relationship between HRM and organisational performance. Her most recent work explores wellbeing and HRM within the context of knowledge workers. In 2008, Fiona won the University of Otago Early Career Award for Distinction in Research.

An article by Alan Geare, Fiona and Ian McAndrew – “Workplace Values and Beliefs: An Empirical Study of Ideology, High Commitment Management and Unionization” published in The International Journal of Human Resource Management volume 20 issue 5, has been selected as one of the 50 best articles out of 15,000 published in 2009 in the top 400 business and management journals and has therefore won an Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence.

Call for papers New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations on Occupational health and safety: Stakeholders' perspectives.

Teaching responsibilities

Fiona's teaching responsibilities include:

Research interests

Fiona's research interests are:

  • Human Resource Management – The Employee Perspective, Wellbeing in the workplace and Knowledge Workers
  • Industrial Relations – Partnerships

Current supervisions

Fiona is currently supervising the following students:

PhD

  • Alam, I. (2018) – Use of social media for internal communication: a study of Indian organisations
  • Tahir, R. (2020) – Female Entrepreneurs in the Middle East

DBA

  • Wang, Liangzhi. (2019) – A dual-process model of the effect of abusive leadership on teams
  • Alis, A. (2020) – Technology and wellbeing: A public sector study
  • Wang, Jingwei. (2020) – Environmental protection skills training impacts on behaviour
  • Peng, Yueh-chi. (2020) – Socialisation in the Theme Park environment
  • Chan, Daphne. (2022) – Employees' conceptualisations of wellbeing

Publications

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