M Economics, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Griffith Business School
Contact details for Associate Professor Mohan Thite
Biography
Associate Professor Thite has a multi-disciplinary, multi-industry and multi-national career profile in academia and industry. He has Undergraduate degrees in Economics and Law, Post-graduate degrees in Economics and Personnel Management & Industrial Relations, and PhD in Human Resource Management from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. Similarly, his career, spanning over 25 years, is multi-faceted covering several management positions in industry and academic positions at Swinburne, La Trobe and Griffith Universities in Australia.
His research interests include
- Strategic HRM & Knowledge Management
- Interface between HRM & IT/IS
- HRM in Business Process Outsourcing sector
- HRM in multinational corporations in and from emerging economies, and
- Global Services Offshoring
He currently teaches Strategy and HR and Human Resource Information Systems. He has won several Teaching Awards and Teaching Grants.
Mohan is on the Editorial Advisory Board of International Journal of Engineering and Construction Leadership and a regular reviewer of several international journals, such as Human Resource Management, Journal of World Business, The Learning Organization, Research and Practice in Human Resource Management and Leadership and Organisation Development Journal. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Lancaster University, UK and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India.
Mohan is a Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) and an Academic Member of the Academy of Management as well as the Society of HRM, USA. He has thrice served as the state council member of AHRI and was twice elected as academic member of Griffith University Academic Committee.
Mohan has won several competitive Research Grants both internally as well as externally from funding bodies such as the Society of HRM, USA (largest HR Professional Body in the world) and the Dept of the Premier & Cabinet, Queensland Government, Australia.
He has published three books on “Managing people in the new economy” (2004), “Human Resource Information Systems: Basics, Applications & future directions” (2009, co-edited with Prof Michael Kavanagh) and “Next available operator: Managing human resources in Indian Business Process Outsourcing industry” (2009, co-edited with Bob Russell), all with Sage Publications. His publications also include 11 book chapters, 15 journal articles, and several international conference papers apart from case studies & research consultancy reports.