Dr Nils Timo

B Arts, M Philosophy, PhD

Senior Lecturer, Griffith Business School

Contact details for Dr Nils Timo

Research expertise

• Wages policy
• Management
• Innovation and HRM
• Service work
• Employee relations
• Organisational change and development
• Managerial and trade union strategies
• Hotel HRM and management
• Labour market structures
• Negotiation strategies

Current teaching areas

• Organisation structures and design
• Human resource learning and development
• Management strategy and decision making
• Negotiation strategies

Publications

Editorials

• Timo, N. and Hayes, P., 2007. Editorial, Towards Knowledge-customer Centered Services?, Special Edition on the Services Sector, Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), Vol. 13, No. 2, 82–87.

Books

• Petzall, S. Timo, N and Abott, K., 2007. Industrial Relations in Australia and the Asia Pacific, Eruditions, Melbourne, 3rd edition.

Refereed Articles

• Allan, C. Bamber, G. Timo, N., 2006. Fast-Food Work: Are McJobs Satisfying? Employee Relations, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp.402 – 420.
• Davidson, M. Guilding, C. and Timo, N., 2006. Employment, Flexibility and Labour Market Practices of Domestic and MNC Chain Luxury Hotels in Australia: Where has Accountability Gone?, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 193-210.
• Timo, N., 2005. Future Directions for Workplace Bargaining and Aged Care Under a Post 2005 Howard Government, Australian Health Review, Vol 29, No. 3, pp. 274-277.
• Allan, C. Bamber, G. Timo, N., 2005. McJobs, Student Attitudes and Employment Relations in the Fast Food Industry’, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1-11.
• Timo, N. and Davidson, M., 2005. A Survey of Employee Relations Practices and Demographics of MNC Chain and Domestic Luxury Hotels in Australia, Employee Relations, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 175-192.
• Timo, N. Fulop, L. and Ruthjersen, A., 2005. Crisis? What Crisis? Management Practices, Compliance and Internal Violence and Workplace Bullying in Aged Care in Australia, Research and Practice in Human Resource Management, Special Issue on Crisis Management, Vol. 12, No. 2. pp. 35-53.

Refereed Book Chapters & Contributions

• Timo, N. Contributor (2008) (Industrial Relations), (Employment Relations) and (Human Resource Management), for the International Encyclopaedia of Hospitality Management, Editors: Pizam, A. and J. Holcomb, Elsevier, Oxford.
• Timo, N. and Anderson, A., 2004. Performance Management: Case Study. in Dessler Human Resource Management, edited by Dessler, G, Griffiths, J. and B. Lloyd-Walker, Pearson Educational, Sydney, pp. 292 – 294.
• Hort, L. and Timo, N., 2003. A survey of enterprise agreement making in the Australian hotel industry, in Burgess, J. and MacDonald, D. (editors). Developments in Enterprise Bargaining in Australia, Tertiary Press, Croydon, Vic. Pp. 239-255.

Refereed Conference Papers/Proceedings

• Timo, N. Ruthjersen, A. and Fulop, L., 2004. Management Practices, Disciplined Occupations and Workplace Bullying in Aged Care, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), 8th-11th December, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
• Allan, C., Bamber, G., and Timo, N., 2003. Is There Convergence or Divergence? Employment in Australian and Internationally-Owned Enterprises in Fast Food, Proceedings of the 17th Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), 2 – 5 December, Edith Cowan University.
• Davidson, M. and Timo, N., 2003. Human Resources Development, Employment and Globalisation of MNE Hotels in Australia, in “Reflections and New Directions”, Proceedings of the 17th Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) 2003 Conference, ed. by Holland, P., Teicher, J. and Turberville, S. 4th - 7th April, 2003, Melbourne.
• Allan, C., Bamber, G., and Timo, N., 2003. Multi-National and Domestic Fast Food Operators: Similarities and Differences in Employment Practices in Australia, The Global Business and Economics Research Conference, Istanbul, 7-12 August, 2003, proceedings published in The Business Review, Cambridge, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.446 - 454.