Dr Fiona Edgar - on study leave

BCom(Hons) PhD DipGrad(Otago) NZCSMgmt
Senior Lecturer

Fiona teaches and researches in human resource management, industrial relations, and management theory. 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. She is also currently examining the nature of Management/Union partnerships in New Zealand. In 2008, Fiona won the University of Otago Early Career Award for Distinction in Research.

A recent 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.

Teaching Interests

Human Resource Management
Industrial Relations

Teaching Responsibilities

MANT 345: Strategic Human Resource Management
MANT 365: Research Methodology
MANT 431: Advanced Human Resource Management 1

Other Responsibilities

Expert course adviser
Exchange adviser

Research Interests

Human Resource Management – The Employee Perspective
Industrial Relations - Partnerships

Current Supervisions

PhD – in progress

Ali Bavik - Strategic human resource management in hotels in Cyprus and Hong Kong.

Recent Publications

For a list of recent publications, please click on the corresponding item:
Cases
Conferences
Journal Articles
Working Papers

Contacts

Room 8.14
Tel 64 3 479 8091
Fax 64 3 479 8173
Email fiona.edgar@otago.ac.nz