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PROF WILLIAM GORDON HARLEY



Contact Details

Organization: Management and Marketing
Position: PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.management.unimelb.edu.au/staff/staffPage.cfm?StaffId=17
Work: 03 8344 4214
Mobile: 0412884391
Fax: 03 9349 4293
Room: 7.11
Level: 07
Building: Babel Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Human Resource Management High Performance Work Systems, work organisation, Labour Process Theory, Democracy and participation at work Australia, United Kingdom

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom University of Strathclyde Research
Sweden Lund University Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (honours) The University of Queensland 31-Dec-1990
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Queensland 31-Dec-1994

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Academy of Management 01-Jan-1999
Member International Sociological Association 01-Jan-2002
Member Australian Sociological Association 01-Jan-1992

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize The University of Queensland Cleary Memorial Prize, for Dux of Honours in Political Science 30-Nov-1990
Other (Award) Academy of Management Best Paper Award 31-Dec-2004
Scholarship The University of Queensland Australian Postgraduate Research Award 01-Jan-1992
Other (Award) Faculty of Economics and Commerce, The University of Melbourne Dean’s Certificate of Good Undergraduate Teaching 31-Dec-2003

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Research on organizational discourse Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage International Awards 01/01/2002
Aged care in crisis? The effects of work organisation on nurse, resident and organisational outcomes Chief Investigator AUST NURSING FEDERATION,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • High performance work systems and employee experience of work in the service sector: the case of aged care
    Year: 2007
    Journal: British Journal of Industrial Relations
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 607 - 633
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Major Reference Works

  • The Oxford handbook of human resource management:HRM and the worker: labour process perspectives
    Year: 2007
    Reference Work Title: The Oxford handbook of human resource management
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Management Reactions to Technological Change: the example of Enterprise Resource Planning
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 58-75
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  • Work, organisation and Enterprise Resource Planning systems: an alternative research agenda
    Year: 2006
    Journal: New Technology, Work & Employment
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 199-214
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • Participation and Democracy at Work: Essays in Honour of Harvie Ramsay
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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Book Chapters

  • Hope or Hype? High Performance Work Systems
    Year: 2005
    Book: Participation and Democracy at Work: Essays in Honour of Harvie Ramsay
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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  • The Paradoxes of Participation
    Year: 2005
    Book: Participation and Democracy at Work: Essays in Honour of Harvie Ramsay
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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Journal Articles

  • On-Line Consultation: E-Democracy and E-Resistance in the Case of the Development Gateway
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Management Communication Quarterly
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 120-145
    Publisher: Sage Publications
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Nurse identity salience: Antecedencts and career consequences
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management
    Conference Publication: Engaging the Multiple Contexts of Management. Convergence and divergence of management theory and practice. Proceedings of the 19th ANZAM Conference.
    Page numbers: 1-12
    Publisher: Collection ANZAM(Sydney)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Managing Industrial Conflict
    Year: 2004
    Book: The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration in Australia
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • A little knowledge is a dangerous thing: getting below the surface of the growth of knowledge work' in Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Work, Employment and Society
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 725-747
    Publisher: Sage Publications
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  • Discourse analysis and content analysis: Two solitudes?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Newsletter of the American political science association organized section on qualitative methods
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 19-22
    Publisher: American Political Science Association(Philadelphia)
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  • Firing Blanks? An analysis of discursive struggle in HRM
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Management Studies
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 377-400
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Industrial relations and human resource management practices in Australian and overseas-owned workplaces: Global or local?
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Industrial Relations
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-22
    Publisher: Industrial Relations Society of Australia
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Academic struggles in HRM: A discursive analysis of texts as 'suspicious packages'
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 10th APROS International Colloquium - New World: Translating the Past, Narrating the Present & Organising the Future
    Conference Publication: 10th APROS International Colloquium Proceedings - New World: Translating the Past, Narrating the Present & Organising the Future
    Page numbers: 1-26
    Publisher: Area de Estudios Organizacionales, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-(Iztapalapa)
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  • Class and Control Revisited: An Analysis Of Occupations, Autonomy and Pay in the Service Sector
    Year: 2003
    Event name: CMS3
    Conference Publication: CMS Proceedings
    Page numbers: 1-20
    Publisher: Lancaster University Management School(Lancashire)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Employee Responses to High Performance Work System Practices: An Analysis of the AWIRS95 Data
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Industrial Relations
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 418-434
    Publisher: Industrial Relations Society of Australia
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  • Innovation in Australian Trade Unions
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Industrial Relations
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 228-248
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Team Membership and the Experience of Work in Britain: an Analysis of the WERS98 Data
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Work, Employment and Society
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 721-742
    Publisher: Sage Publications
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