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Professor Gill Palmer leads the largest faculty within Australia's leading international university. She has had a significant impact on Australia's management community and academia through innovation and leadership and has steered the Business and Economics faculty at Monash University to record student enrolments and research funding levels.
From 1969 to 1984 she worked in London at the London School of Economics, the British Government's Commission on Industrial Relations and at the City University London and the Cass Business School. Emigrating to Australia in 1984 she became foundation director of the Key Centre of Strategic Management at Queensland University of Technology, Dean of Commerce at Wollongong University and now, Dean of Business and Economics at Monash University. Professor Palmer has been President of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management and the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, and a foundation Board member of the Australian and New Zealand School of Government.
Research
Professor Palmer has an accomplished academic reputation with eight books and many articles published on employment relations, industrial relations, human resource management and quality management including a widely-used text book on employment relations (with Margaret Gardner). Before she left the United Kingdom, she wrote a major text on British industrial relations.
She chaired a discipline review of management research in Australia for the Australian Research Council (ARC) and a pilot program to promote research networking among Australia's management community. She has held ARC discovery grants on human resource management and organisational change.
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