Focused on providing research-led education and high-impact research

Research is central to the mission of the Department and our team is dedicated to providing research-led education to our students and producing high-impact research that drives business practice, policy, and regulation.

Employment Relations and Human Resources Executive

Ruth McPhail

Prof Ruth McPhail

Head of Department

Areas of expertise:

  • Diversity and inclusion in organisations
  • Talent recruitment, development and careers
  • Strategy, management and organisational behaviour

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Amie Shaw

A/Prof Amie Shaw

Deputy Head of Department

Areas of expertise:

  • Diversity and inclusion in organisations
  • Talent recruitment, development and careers

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Dr Paula Mowbray

Acting Director of Research

Area of Expertise

  • HR practices for fostering high-performance cultures
  • Employee engagement strategies
  • Creating inclusive environments
  • Fostering employee participation and involvement

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Ryan Gould

Dr Ryan Gould

Director of Learning and Teaching

Areas of expertise

  • Employee voice
  • HR strategy/high performance workplaces
  • Leadership
  • Occupational health, safety and wellbeing

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Academic staff

  • Employee voice
  • International HR
  • Employer organisations
  • Bullying
  • Emotions at work
  • Employee voice
  • Leadership
  • Occupational health, safety and wellbeing
  • Organisational change management
  • Social and personality psychology
  • Industrial and organisational psychology
  • Diversity and inclusion in organisations
  • Emotions at work
  • Gender equality at work
  • Occupational health, safety and wellbeing
  • HR systems
  • International HR
  • Talent recruitment, development and careers
  • Teams
  • Bullying
  • Industrial relations
  • Occupational health, safety and wellbeing
  • Diversity and Inclusion in organisations
  • HR strategy/high performance workplaces
  • International HR
  • Talent recruitment, development and careers
  • Psychological contract
  • Work as calling
  • Organisational change
  • Employee Voice
  • Emotions at work
  • Leadership
  • Occupational health, safety and wellbeing
  • Health services and systems
  • Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
    • Diversity and inclusion in organisations
    • Talent recruitment, development and careers
    • Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
    • Diversity and inclusion in organisations
    • Employee voice
    • HR strategy/high performance workplaces
    • HR systems
    • Line managers
    • Technology, artificial intelligence and work
    • Diversity and inclusion in organisations
    • Industrial relations
    • Labour markets
    • Technology, artificial intelligence and work
    • Unions
    • Ageing and generational differences
    • Emotions at work
    • HR strategy/high performance workplaces
    • Talent recruitment, development and careers
    • Diversity and inclusion in organisations
    • Skilled migration
    • Human resource management
    • Industrial and employee relations
    • Diversity and inclusion in organisations
    • Employee voice
    • Leadership
    • Occupational health, safety and wellbeing
    • Skilled migration
    • Diversity and inclusion in organisations
    • Gender equality at work
    • Unions
    • HR systems
    • Human resource management
    • Employee voice
    • HR strategy/high performance workplaces
    • Line managers
        • Bullying
        • Emotions at work
        • Leadership
        • Occupational health, safety and wellbeing
        • Teams
        • International HR
        • Talent recruitment, development and careers
        • Employee voice
        • HR strategy/high performance workplaces
        • HR systems
        • International HR
        • Occupational health, safety and wellbeing
        • HR strategy/high performance workplaces
        • Occupational health, safety and wellbeing
        • Organisational change management
        • Talent recruitment, development and careers
        • Business ethics
        • Artificial intelligence and ethics
        • Service robots and work
        • Occupational health, safety and wellbeing

          Emeritus staff

          Adjunct staff

          • Prof Bradley Bowden
          • Dr Alan Burton-Jones
          • Dr Bridget Laging

          HDR Convenor

          Sessional Staff Co-ordinator

          Program Directors

          Administration

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          +61 (07) 555 27650
          Department email
          erhr_admin@griffith.edu.au

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          Location and postal address
          Griffith Business School
          Business 1 (N50) 1.22
          Nathan campus, Griffith University
          170 Kessels Road, Nathan QLD 4111 Australia

          Gold Coast campus

          Location and postal address
          Griffith Business School
          Business 3 (G42) 5.17
          Gold Coast campus, Griffith University
          Parklands Drive, Southport QLD 4222 Australia