Faculty of Economics and Commerce Department of Management and Marketing

Professor Bill Harley

Profile

Career History


2008- : Professor, Department of Management and Marketing, The University of Melbourne
2004-7 : Associate Dean (International) Faculty of Economics and Commerce
2002-2008 : Associate Professor, Department of Management, The University of Melbourne.
1998-2001: Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, The University of Melbourne.
1996-7: Lecturer, Department of Management, The University of Queensland.
1995: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Government, The University of Queensland.

Research Interests


- Industrial Relations
- HRM
- Work Organisation
- High Performance Work Systems
- Employee Autonomy
- Democracy and Participation at Work
- Labour Process Theory

Qualifications


PhD, Queensland
BA (Hons), Queensland

Awards


Best Paper CMS Interest Group, Academy of Management, 2004
Dean's Certificate for Excellent Undergraduate Teaching 2002, 2006

Journal Editorial/Advisory Board Membership

Journal of Management StudiesWork Employment and SocietyLabour and Industry

Consultancies

State and Federal government
Trade unions
Industry bodies
Regular media commentator on issues relating to work and employment
The OECD
International Labour Organisation

Professional Memberships

Centre for Human Resource Management
The Academy of Management
The International Sociological Association
ICRODSC - International Centre for Research in Organisational Discourse, Strategy and Change

Research

Recent Publications


Books

Harley, B., J. Hyman and P. Thompson (eds) (2005) Democracy and Participation at Work, London: Palgrave.

Refereed Journals


Alvesson, M., C. Hardy and B. Harley (2008) ‘Reflecting on Reflexivity: Reappraising Practice’, Journal of Management Studies, 45, 3, 480-501.

Harley, B., B. Allen and L. Sargent (2007) ‘High Performance Work Systems and Employee Experience of Work in the Service Sector: the Case of Aged Care’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 45, 3, pp. 607-33.

Harley, B., C. Wright, R. Hall and K. Dery (2006) ‘Management Reactions to Technological Change: The Example of Enterprise Resource Planning’, Journal of Applied Behavioural Science, 42, 1, pp. 58-75.

Dery, K., D. Grant, B. Harley and C. Wright (2006) ‘Work, Organisations and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: An Alternative Research Agenda’, New Technology, Work and Employment, 21, 3, pp. 199-214.

Ainsworth, S., C. Hardy and B. Harley (2005) ‘Online Consultation: E-Democracy and E-Resistance in the Case of the Development Gateway’, Management Communication Quarterly, 19, 1, pp. 120-145.

Harley, B. and C. Hardy. (2004)‘Firing Blanks? An Analysis of Discursive Struggle in HRM’, Journal of Management Studies, 41, 3, pp. 377-400.

Fleming, P., B. Harley and G. Sewell. (2004) ‘A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing: Getting Below the Surface of the Growth of ‘Knowledge Work’’, Work, Employment and Society, 18, 4.

Book Chapters

Thompson, P. and B. Harley (2007) ‘HRM and the Worker: Labour Process Perspectives’ in P. Boxall, J. Purcell and P. Wright, The Oxford Handbook of HRM, Oxford: OUP.

Harley, B. ‘Managing Industrial Conflict’ (2005), in Isaac, J. and S. Macintyre (eds) The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration, Cambridge: CUP, pp. 316-54.

Harley, B. (2004) ‘The Decentralisation of Industrial Relations’, P., R. Hall and G. Stokes (eds) The Politics of Australian Society: Political Issues for the New Century, 2nd Edn, Melbourne: Addison Wesley Longman.

Conference Publications

Harley, B., C. Hardy and M. Alvesson (2004) Reflecting on Reflexivity, in Weaver, K.M. (Ed.) Conference Proceedings, 64th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, New Orleans: Academy of Management.

Significant Publications


Refereed Journals

Ramsay, H., D. Scholarios and B. Harley. (2000) ‘Employees and High Performance Work Systems: Testing Inside the Black Box’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 38, 4, December, pp. 501-531.

Harley, B. (1999) ‘The Myth of Empowerment: Work Organisation, Hierarchy and Employee Autonomy in Contemporary Australian Workplaces’, Work Employment and Society, 13, 1, March, pp. 41-66.

Boreham, P., R. Hall and B. Harley. (1996) ‘Two Paths to Prosperity?: Work Organisation and Industrial Relations Decentralisation in Australia’, Work, Employment and Society, 10, 3.

Working Papers


Women in part-time work: a comparative study of Australia and the United Kingdom Bill Harley and Gillian Whitehouse. (2000).

The Experience of Teamwork: Analysis of the WERS98 Employee Survey Bill Harley. (2000).

High Commitment Management Practices and Employee Outcomes: Evidence from Britain and Australia. Dora Scholarios, Harvie Ramsay and Bill Harley. (1999).

Managerialist-Service Unionism in Australia: Evidence from the 1996 Australian National Trade Union Survey. Richard Hall and Bill Harley. (1998).

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities 2009

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