Faculty Staff Profile

Professor Greg Bamber is a Distinguished Academic and Discipline Group Leader: Human Resources and Employment Relations, Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Melbourne. He was formerly Director of Research there.

He has more than a hundred academic publications including many articles in such refereed journals as: Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Resources; British Journal of Industrial Relations; Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal; Industrial and Labor Relations Review; Industrial Relations Journal; International Journal of Human Resource Management; International Labour Review; Journal of Industrial Relations; Higher Education Review; Human Relations; Human Resource Management Journal; Journal of Industrial Relations; Journal of Management Studies; Australian Journal of Labour Economics; New Technology, Work and Employment; Personnel Review; Prometheus; Public Administration; and Thunderbird International Business Review.

He has also published numerous edited book chapters and several books (see publications) including the 5th edition of the book edited by Bamber, Russell Lansbury and Nick Wailes, International and Comparative Employment Relations: Globalisation and Change, (Sage/Allen & Unwin); it is the standard work in the field. Other volumes that he has co-authored or co-edited include: Regulating Employment Relations, Work and Labour Laws: International Comparisons between Key Countries (Kluwer) Employment Relations in the Asia Pacific (Allen & Unwin/Thomson), Managing Managers (Blackwell); Organisational Change Strategies (Longman); Militant Managers? (Gower) and New Technology (Routledge/Allen & Unwin). The book, Up in the Air (Cornell University Press, Ithaca), is an international study of airlines, with a focus on managing people and employment relations (together with Thomas Kochan, Jody Hoffer Gittell and Andrew von Nordenflycht). His publications have been widely cited and have been translated into ten other languages.

He has served on the editorial board of 22 refereed journals. He is a sometime assessor for the Australian Research Council (ARC) and also for the equivalent for research councils in Britain, the USA and Canada. He has been a co-chief investigator on many competitive grant-funded projects. His international research collaborations include being Co-Leader of projects on: airlines, car manufacturing, hospitals and telecommunications.

He was educated at University of Manchester, London School of Economics, and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He has supervised more than a dozen PhD theses as well as numerous masters and honours dissertations. He has been an Examiner, Guest Speaker, Selection Panel Member or Reviewer for many other universities and other enterprises in Australia, the UK and other countries. He was an academic earlier in Australia at the University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology (Director, Australian Research Council Key Centre in Strategic Management), and Griffith University (Dean & Director, Graduate School of Management). In England, was an academic at the University of Durham and has worked on research projects based at the Universities of Oxford and Warwick, and at Imperial College, London.

He researches, conducts programs for and advises international organizations, private- and public-sector enterprises and other organizations. Government departments and international agencies (e.g. the International Labour Organization) have commissioned him to conduct projects. He has also been an adviser for governments in Australia, the UK and other countries. He has been appointed to serve as a director on several boards in the fields of education, sport and health including the State of Victoria's Southern Health Board, which includes responsibility for Monash Medical Centre. More than a dozen international conferences have selected his papers to be published as one of the best papers or to be included in proceedings, conference books or special issues of journals.

He has served as an arbitrator for the British Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS). He has served also as President: Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), and of International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management. He is currently Co-Chair: International Section, US Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA); President, Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ); and President, Industrial Relations Society of Victoria.

He is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK; a Distinguished Member and Life Fellow of the Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management; and a Fellow of several other associations including: Academy of Social Sciences of Australia, Australian Human Resources Institute, Australian Institute of Management, British Academy of Management (BAM), Chartered Institute of Management, UK and of Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, UK.

He has been an Examiner, Guest Speaker or Reviewer for universities and enterprises in Australia, the UK and other countries. He is a Visiting Professor, Newcastle University Business School, England; Montague Burton Visiting Professor, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, Wales; and an Adjunct Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Queensland. He has also been invited to be a visitor and/or associate at several other universities including: Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA; University of Melbourne and the University of New South Wales, both in Australia and at several universities in other countries.

At Monash University he also belongs to: the Australian Centre for Research in Employment and Work (ACREW); and the Monash European and EU Centre: a joint undertaking of the European Union (EU) and Monash University.

He comments in the media periodically. For examples of his articles in "The Conversation" on disputes between Qantas and some groups of its staff and the unions that represent them, see: https://theconversation.edu.au/the-qantas-dispute-what-next-and-a-recap-4411

For more details, see "Who's Who in Australia" or ask: GregBamber@Gmail.Com

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Greg Bamber's interests include: employment relations; people management; organizational/technological change; high-performance work systems or 'smart workplaces'; arbitration, dispute prevention and settlement, mediation and negotiation; international comparisons and transferability of management styles and employment relations arrangements; and various industries including: aviation, education including universities, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, public sector, high-performance sport, telecommunications and transport.

The following Australian Research Council (ARC) 3-year Project applications were each successful and are current:

1. Discovery Project: Efficiency, Justice and Voice: A Study of Effective Ways to Prevent and Settle Workplace Disputes Prof Greg Bamber, Prof Julian Teicher and Dr Brian Cooper, all Monash University, jointly with Prof Bernadine Van Gramberg

Keywords: Dispute resolution procedures, workplace justice and voice, workplace conflict, employment relations.

2. Linkage Project: Human Resource Management (HRM) Outsourcing and Shared Services: Analysing Changing Approaches to HRM

Prof Greg Bamber and Prof Fang Lee Cooke, both Monash University, jointly with Prof Ed Snape

Keywords: Human resources management, industrial relations, outsourcing, shared services.

Partner Organisation: Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Victorian Government.

3. Linkage Project: Work Process Change in Hospital Services

Prof Greg Bamber and Prof Amrik Sohal, both Monash University, jointly with Prof Pauline Stanton, Richard Gough, Prof Sandra Leggat, Dr Timothy K Bartram, Prof Danny Liew

Keywords: Process reengineering, quality of work, healthcare systems performance, work environment, human resources management, industrial relations.

Partner Organisations: Alberta Health Services, Canada and Melbourne Health, Victorian Government

Please ask if you would like any more information. Thanks. GregBamber@Gmail.Com

Examples of Publications

Articles in "The Conversation". For details go to: http://theconversation.edu.au/profiles/greg-j-bamber-1286

Townsend, K., Wilkinson, A., Bamber, G.J. & Allan, C. (2012) Accidental, Unprepared and Unsupported: Clinical Nurses Becoming Managers. International Journal of Human Resource Management, London, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 204-220. For details go to: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09585192.2011.610963

Townsend, K., Wilkinson, A., Allan, C. & Bamber, G.J. (2012) Mixed signals in HRM: The HRM Role of Hospital Line Managers Human Resource Management Journal vol. 22, issue 3, pp. 267282. For details go to: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-8583.2011.00166.x/full

Townsend, K., Allan, C., Wilkinson, A. & Bamber, G.J. (2011) All We Need is a Miracle: Using a Solution-Based Approach to HRM in Australian Hospitals, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 165-179.For details go to: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1177/1038411111400163/pdf

Bamber, G.J., Lansbury, R.D. & Wailes, N. (eds) (2011) International and Comparative Employment Relations: Globalisation and Change, 5th edn, Allen & Unwin, Sydney/Sage, London, 448 pp. In Asia, Africa or Europe go to: www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book234753?contribId=615578& or in the Americas go to: www.sagepub.com/books/Book234753? Only in Australia or New Zealand go to: www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=94&book=9781742370651

Bamber G.J. and Pochet, P. et al. (2010) Regulating Employment Relations, Work and Labour Laws: International Comparisons between Key Countries, Special Issue of the Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations, Vol. 74, Wolters Kluwer, The Netherlands. For details go to: www.kluwerlaw.com

Gittell, J.H. & Bamber, G.J. (2010), High- and Low-Road Strategies for Competing on Costs and their Implications for Employment Relations: International Studies in the Airline Industry. International Journal of Human Resource Management. London, vol. 21, no. 2, pp.165-179. For details go to: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09585190903509464

Bamber, G.J., Hoffer Gittell, J., Kochan, T.A. & von Nordenflytch, A. (2009). Up in the Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging their Employees. New York: Cornell University Press. For details go to: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100965480 The book is distributed in Europe also by: www.nbninternational.com It is distributed in Australasia also by www.footprint.com.au

Ross, P. & Bamber, G. J. (2009). Strategic Choices in Pluralist and Unitarist Employment Relations Regimes: A Study of Australian Telecommunications. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. New York, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 24-41. For details go to: http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/ilrreview/

Kochan, T.A. & Bamber, G.J. (2009). Industrial Relations and Collective Bargaining. In A. Wilkinson, N. Bacon, T. Redman and S. Snell (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Human Resource Management. London: Sage, pp. 308-321.

Townsend, K., Wilkinson, A, Bamber, G.J. & Allan, C. (2009), Human Resources Management Aspects of Hospital Ward Managers Jobs, Proceedings of 2009 Annual Meeting, Labor and Employment Relations Association Series (LERA)/Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA), Illinois: http://www.lera.illinois.edu/pubs/proceedings/2009/AP2009.pdf

Bamber, G.J., Hoffer Gittell, J., Kochan, T.A. & von Nordenflytch, A. (2009), Contrasting Management and Employment-Relations Strategies in European Airlines. Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 51 no. 5, pp. 635-652. For details go to: http://jir.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/51/5/635

Bamber, G.J. (2008), Governmental and Inter- Governmental Action on Labour Rights and Trade, International Labor Law: Cases and Materials, eds J. Atleson, L. Compa, K. Rittich, C.W. Sharpe and M. Weiss, Thomson West, Minneapolis, MN. (2008), pp. 413-416.

Bamber, G.J. & Sappey, J. (2007). Unintended consequences of human research ethics committees: Au revoir workplace studies? Monash Bioethics Review, 26(3), 26-36.

Allan, C., Bamber, G.J. & Timo, N. (2006). Fast-food work: Are "McJobs" satisfying? Employee Relations, 28(5), 402-420.

Bamber, G.J. (2005). How is the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum developing? Comparative comments on APEC and Employment Relations. Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, 26(3), 423-444.

Bamber G.J. (2005), 'The geometry of comparative industrial relations: Efficiency, equity and voice', Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal (New York), vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 119-122.

Allan, C., Bamber, G.J. & Timo, N. (2005), McJobs, student attitudes to work and employment relations in the fast-food industry, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1-11.

Bamber, G.J., Ryan, S. & Wailes, N. (2004), Globalisation, employment relations and human resource indicators in ten developed market economies: International data sets, International Journal of Human Resource Management (London), vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 1481-1516.

Martin, R. & Bamber, G.J. (2004), International comparative employment relations theory: Developing the political economy perspective, Theoretical Perspectives on Work and the Employment Relationship, ed. B.E. Kaufman, Annual Research Volume: Industrial Relations Research Association (Illinois), pp 293-320.

Bamber, G.J., Lansbury, R.D. & Wailes, N. (eds) (2004), International and Comparative Employment Relations: Globalisation and the Developed Market Economies, 4th edn, Allen & Unwin, Sydney/Sage, London and Thousand Oaks, 486 pp. Also translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and other languages.

Bamber, G.J. & Lansbury, R.D. (2002), Kochan, Thomas (1947-), International Encyclopedia of Business and Management, 2nd edn, ed. M. Warner, Thomson, London, vol. 4, pp. 3685-3690.

Bamber, G.J. & Caught, K. (2002), Toyoda family, International Encyclopaedia of Business and Management, 2nd edn, ed. M. Warner, Thomson, London, pp. 6510-6517.

Bamber, G.J., Simmons, D.E. & Allan, C. (2002), Work and organisation systems, International Encyclopaedia of Business and Management, 2nd edn, ed. M. Warner, Thomson, London, pp. 6807-6824.

Allan, C., Bamber, G.J. & Timo, N. (2002), Employment relations in the Australian fast-food industry, Labour Relations in the Global Fast Food Industry, eds B. Towers and T. Royle, Routledge, London, pp. 154-171.

Bamber, G.J. (2002), Convergency theory, The Informed Student Guide to Human Resource Management, eds T. Redman and A. Wilkinson, Thomson, London, pp. 45-46.

Bamber, G.J. (2002), Strategic choice theory, The Informed Student Guide to Human Resource Management, eds T. Redman and A. Wilkinson, Thomson, London, pp. 234-235.

Bamber, G.J. & Leggett, C.J. (2001), Changing employment relations in the Asia-Pacific Region, International Journal of Manpower, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 300-317.

Allan, C., Bamber, G.J. & Timo N. (2000), McDonaldization and employment relations: A study of MNE fast food operators in Australia, International Human Resource Issues, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 28-45.

Ross, P.K. & Bamber, G.J. (2000), Deregulation, downsizing and outsourcing at Telecom New Zealand and Telstra: Towards an explanation of employment relations strategies in terms of transaction costs economics, in Research and Practice in Human Resource Management, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 93-109.

Bamber, G.J., Ross, P.K. & Whitehouse, G. (1998), Employment relations and labour market indicators in ten industrialized market economies: Comparative statistics International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 401-435.

Bamber, G.J. & Peschanski, V.V. (1996), Transforming industrial relations in Russia: A case of convergence with industrialised market economies?, Industrial Relations Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 74-88.

Leggett, C.J. & Bamber, G.J. (eds) (1996), Asia-Pacific tiers of change, Human Resource Management Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 5-17.

Shadur, M.A., Rodwell, J.J. & Bamber, G.J. (1995), Factors predicting employees acceptance of lean production, Human Relations, vol. 48, no. 12, pp. 1403-1425.

Shadur, M.A., Rodwell, J.J. & Bamber, G.J. (1995), The adoption of international best practices in a western culture: East meets West International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 6, no.3, pp. 735-757.

Bamber, G.J. (1994), Workplace change strategies: an international symposium, International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 547-550.

Shadur, M.A. & Bamber, G.J. (1994), Toward lean management? International transferability of Japanese management strategies to Australia, The International Executive (Thunderbird International Business Review) (New York), vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 343-364.