B Science, M Science, PhD
Professor, Griffith Business School
Director of the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing and Professor of Employment Relations.
Professor awarded distinction for excellence in social sciences research
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Biography
Adrian Wilkinson is Professor and Director of the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing at Griffith University, Australia. Prior to his 2006 appointment, Adrian worked at Loughborough University in the UK where he was Professor of Human Resource Management from 1998, and Director of Research for the Business School. Adrian has also worked at the Manchester School of Management at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He holds Visiting Professorships at Loughborough University, Sheffield University and the University of Durham, and is an Academic Fellow at the Centre for International Human Resource Management at the Judge Institute, University of Cambridge.
Adrian has written on many aspects of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations. Recent research encompassed employee participation and voice; high performance work systems and; comparative and international employment relations. He has attracted grants from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the NHS Executive, the Nuffield Foundation, the Society of Human Resource Management and the Australian Research Council. Adrian has written/edited twenty books, over one hundred articles in refereed journals, and numerous book chapters. His books (with co-authors) include Making Quality Critical (Routledge, 1995); Managing Quality and Human Resources (Blackwell, 1997); Managing with TQM: Theory and Practice (Macmillan, 1998); Understanding Work and Employment: Industrial Relations in Transition (Oxford University Press, 2003); Human Resource Management at Work (4th edition, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, 2008); Contemporary Human Resource Management (3rd Edition, Pearson, 2009); The Sage Handbook of Human Resource Management (Sage, 2009); The Oxford Handbook of Organisational Participation (OUP, 2010); The Handbook of Work and Employment Relations (Elgar, 2011); New Directions in Employment Relations (Palgrave, 2011), and The Handbook of Comparative Employment Relations (Elgar, 2011). Adrian is currently working on books entitled Union Reponses to Globalisation (with Gregor Gall and Rick Hurd), the Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations (with Geoff Wood and Richard Deeg), the Handbook of Employee Voice (with Richard Freeman, Tony Dundon and Jimmy Donaghey), and Voice and Involvement at Work: Experience with Non-Union Representation Across Three Continents (with Paul Gollan, Bruce Kaufman and Daphne Taras). He is also working on special journal issues for Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations. Adrian has recent/current ARC projects on high performance work systems in health; new workplaces; managing productive and collaborative relationships and employee voice and wellbeing.
Adrianserved on the Australian Research Council College of Experts from 2008-2010, and was Deputy Chair for the Social, Behavioural and Economics panel. He also acts as a referee for several other research councils including the ESRC, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Nuffield Foundation in the UK; the National Science Foundation in the US and; the Hong Kong University Grants Committee.
Adrian has been an External Examiner for PhDs at over a dozen universities including the London School of Economics, University of Warwick, Nottingham University, University of Strathclyde, University of Bradford, Durham University, Sheffield University, Auckland University and the University of Queensland.
He is a Fellow and Accredited Examiner of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in the UK and a Fellow of the Australian Human Resource Institute. Adrian was appointed as both an ANZAM Research Fellow and a British Academy of Management Fellow in 2010. In 2011 he was elected as an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences as recognition of his contribution to the field.
Adrian was Chief Editor of the International Journal of Management Reviews from 2004-2009 and is an Associate Editor for Human Resource Management Journal. He serves on the editorial boards of ten additional journals including Human Resource Management, the International Journal of Human Resource Management and the Industrial Relations Journal.