B Science, M Science, PhD

Professor, Griffith Business School

Director of the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing and  Professor of Employment Relations.

Biography

Adrian Wilkinson received his BSc (Econ) and MSc from the London School of Economics and his PhD from Durham University.  Prior to his current appointment in 2006 he worked at Loughborough University in the UK where he was Professor of Human Resource Management from 1998 and he was also Director of Research for the Business School. He also worked at Manchester School of Management, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.

He has written extensively on many aspects of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations.  Recent research has encompassed change initiatives such as TQM, employee participation and voice, and comparative and international employment relations. In the last few years he has attracted grants from the Economic and Social Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the NHS Executive, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the Nuffield Foundation,the Society of Human Resource Management and the Australian Research Council.  He has written seven books, five monographs, eighty articles in refereed journals as well as numerous book chapters and other papers.  His books include Making Quality Critical published by Routledge in 1995, Managing Quality and Human Resources published by Blackwell in1997, Managing with TQM: Theory and Practice, published by Macmillan in 1998, Understanding Work and Employment: Industrial Relations in Transition published by Oxford University Press in 2003, Human Resource Management  at Work (4th edition ) published by the  Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in 2008 and Contemporary Human Resource Management (3rd Edition ) published by Pearson in 2008.  His work has over 350 citations on the ISI Web Science and over 1000 on Google Scholar. Work has been translated into Polish, Chinese, Russian, French,,German and Arabic.  His work has a strong policy orientation and the work on employee voice was cited in the DTI discussion paper on High Performance Workplaces in the UK .
 
His current projects include a book on Human Resource Management edited with Scott Snell (Cornell), Tom Redman (Durham) and Nick Bacon (Nottingham) to be published by Sage,  a book on Participation in Organisations edited with Paul Gollan (LSE), David Lewin (UCLA) and Mick Marchington (Manchester) to be published by Oxford University Press and a book on Comparative Employment Relations with Barry (Griffith) to be published by Edward Elgar Press. He also has funded projects on high performance management (ARC discovery with Bamber), downsizing (ESRC) , Age Discrimination (the Nuffield Foundation ) and Smart Workplaces(Queensland Government ,with Bamber and Allan)

From 2008 he has been appointed to the ARC College of Experts on the Social, Behavioural and Economic Panel. He has been 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, University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology.  He also acts as a referee for several research councils including the ESRC, the EPSRC and the Nuffield Foundation in the UK, the Australian Research Council, the National Science Foundation(US) and  the Hong Kong University Grants Committee. 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.  He is on the editorial board of several refereed journals and is also Chief  Editor for the International Journal of Management Reviews and an Associate Editor for Human Resource Management Journal.