Academy Fellow

Greg J. Bamber

Monash University (U.) appointed him as a Distinguished Professor, Department of Management, Monash Business School in 2008. He has served the Department as: Director of Research; Discipline Leader: Human Resources & Employment Relations; Director, Master of Human Resource Management. He is Co-Director, International Consortium for Research in Employment & Work (iCREW); Research Theme Lead: Future of Work, Monash AI Institute. His other Monash affiliations include Alliance for Digital Health at Monash, Australia–Indonesia Centre, and Monash Asia Institute. He is also an Honorary Professor, Warwick U., UK.

The Australian Governor-General awarded him an AM (Member of the Order of Australia) 'For significant service to tertiary education, and to international industrial relations research.'

He has more than two hundred academic publications including many articles in such leading refereed journals as: Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources; Australian Journal of Labour Economics; British Journal of Industrial Relations; British Journal of Management; Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal; Higher Education Review; Human Relations; Human Resource Management Journal; Industrial & Labor Relations Review; Industrial Relations Journal; International Journal of Human Resource Management; International Labour Review; Journal of Health Organisation & Management, Journal of Industrial Relations; Journal of Management Control; Journal of Management Studies; Labor Law Journal; New Technology, Work & Employment; Personnel Review; Prometheus; Public Administration; Public Money & Management; and Thunderbird International Business Review.

He has published influential books (most jointly) that have had considerable impact including: International & Comparative Employment Relations: Global Crises and Institutional Responses. Its 7 editions are seen as "standard works" in its field around the world. It has been adapted into several other languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai. He has co-edited New Technology: International Perspectives on Human Resources & Industrial Relations, and co-authored Up in the Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging Their Employees; Regulating Employment Relations, Work and Labour Laws: International Comparisons between Key Countries.

Other volumes that he has published include: Employment Relations in the Asia Pacific (Allen & Unwin/Thomson), Managing Managers (Blackwell); Organisational Change Strategies (Longman); Militant Managers? (Gower). Such publications have generated interest from the media and industry, locally and globally. Several have had considerable impact, been well cited, received excellent reviews and/or have been translated into other languages, including Chinese, Danish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Thai.

International conferences have invited him to be a keynote speaker or selected his papers to be published as one of the ‘best papers’ or to be included in proceedings, conference books or special issues of journals. More than 20 refereed journals have appointed him to their editorial boards.

He also researches with and advises international organizations, private- and public-sector enterprises and other organizations. International agencies (e.g. the International Labour Organization/United Nations) have commissioned him to conduct projects.

Besides the Australian Research Council (ARC) grants listed, he has won many other grants including from the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), UK; Bank of England; a Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), Australian Studies Centre; Foundation for Management Education, UK; British Academy; European Group for Organisational Studies; Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service, USA; Ford Foundation, USA; Institute for Safety Compensation & Recovery Research; Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute; Australia-Korea Foundation; Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia/Australian Academy of the Humanities, Prescott Family Foundation and other institutions and universities.

He has served as an assessor for the ARC and for the equivalent research councils in Canada, China, UK, USA. He has been a chief investigator (CI) or Co-CI on many competitive grant-funded projects. His international research collaborations include being Leader or Co-Leader of many projects.

His interests and experience include many domains, for instance: artificial intelligence (AI), data science, the future of work, employment relations, people management, organizational and technological change, high-performance work systems, 'smart workplaces', arbitration, dispute prevention and settlement, mediation and negotiation, logistics, international comparisons and transferability of management styles and employment-relations arrangements, for instance, aviation, agriculture, building, chemicals, distribution, education including universities, electronics, engineering, finance, healthcare, hospitality, infrastructure, manufacturing, mining, the public sector, railways and transport, retailing, services, sport, tourism, telecommunications, and unions, as well as in a range of enterprises. 

He is Co-Convenor, Victorian Fellows, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and Co-Chair, International Section, US Labor & Employment Relations Association (LERA).

He has served as President of: Australian Labour & Employment Relations Association (ALERA); Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia & New Zealand; Industrial Relations Society of Victoria (IRSV); Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM); International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM). 

He is a Distinguished Member & Life Fellow of ANZAM; and a Fellow of other academies including ASSA; LERA; Academy of Social Sciences, UK; Australian HR Institute; Australian Institute of Management; British Academy of Management (BAM); British Universities Industrial Relations Association; Chartered Institute of Management, UK; Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, UK.

Several professional societies have conferred awards on him e.g. Life Membership (ALERA and IRSV); Cooper Medal for Outstanding Contributions and Leadership (BAM); Outstanding Service Award (IFSAM); Lifetime Achievement Award (LERA).

He was educated in the UK at Manchester U.; London School of Economics; Heriot-Watt U., Edinburgh. He worked on research projects based at Oxford U. and Warwick U.; and at Imperial College, London. He was an academic in the UK at Durham U. (incl. as Director of Research, Business School) and subsequently in Australia at Queensland U.; Queensland U. of Technology (Director, ARC Key Centre in Strategic Management); Griffith U. (incl. as Dean/Director, Graduate School of Management).

He has also been an adviser for governments in Australia, UK and elsewhere. He has served as a non-executive director on external boards in the fields of education, health and sport. He has also served as an arbitrator and investigator for the Advisory, Conciliation & Arbitration Service, UK.

He is an Associate Fellow, Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit, which includes Monash as an international partner); it is led by Sussex U./Leeds U., funded by Economic & Social Research Council, UK Research & Innovation.

He has been a visitor at many universities including in the US: Cornell U., Harvard U., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State U.; in the UK: Cardiff U., Durham U., Newcastle U., Nottingham Trent U; in Canada: Laval U., Montréal U., Toronto U.; in China: Renmin U.; in India: IIT Bombay (Mumbai), International Management Institute (New Delhi); in Australia: U. of Melbourne, U. of New South Wales.

He has served as an Examiner, Guest Speaker or Reviewer for universities and enterprises in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Indo-Pacific Region.

He helps to attract high-quality recruits, visitors, grants and donations and generally to promote the interests of organisations that he is involved with. For example, he initiated and co-leads the annual symposia that are held jointly by Monash and Melbourne universities to honour the late the Hon. Emeritus Professor Joe Isaac AO, FASSA (a past president of the Academy), and co-led the Prescott Family Foundation lectures. He also comments in the mass media, for example, see The Conversation (theconversation.com/profiles/greg-j-bamber-1286/news).

For more details, see Who's Who in Australia, www.linkedin.com/in/gregjbamber,

https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/greg-bamber or ask: GregBamber@Gmail.Com

• 2008 - present: Professor, Faculty of Business & Economics, Monash University; and
  • 2011 - 2015: Discipline Leader, Human Resources & Employment Relations, Department of Management, Monash University
  • 2008 - 2010: Director of Research, Department of Management, Monash University
• 1996 - 2008: Professor, Griffith University, Brisbane; and
  • 2005 - 2008: Department of Employment Relations, Griffith Business School
  • 1996 - 2004: Director (Dean), Graduate School of Management, Griffith University
• 1992 - 1996: Professor and Director, Australian Centre in Strategic Management, an Australian Research Council Key Centre of Teaching and Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
• 1988 - 1992: Reader, Graduate School of Management, University of Queensland
• 1979 - 1988: Lecturer (tenured; latterly at the senior level), University of Durham; and
  • 1981 - 1988: Director of Research, University of Durham Business School, UK

• Member, Order of Australia
• Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences, UK
• Fellow, Australian Institute of Management
• Fellow, Australian Human Resources Institute
• Fellow, Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management; also Distinguished Life Member
• Fellow, British Academy of Management
• Fellow, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, UK
• Fellow, Chartered Institute of Management, UK
• Fellow, Labor & Employment Relations Association, US

Articles in Refereed Journals: click on this link.

Books and Monographs: Edited

Bamber, G. J., Cooke, F.L., Doellgast, V & Wright, C.F. , 2021, International & Comparative Employment Relations: Global Crises & Institutional Responses, 7th edn, SAGE Publishing, London. This and/or earlier editions have also been published in other languages, including Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

Bamber G.J., Pochet, P., Allan, C. Block, R., Burchill, F. Cuillerier, J., Fitzner, G., French, B., Hickox, S., Keller, B., Moore, M.L., Murhem, S., Murray, G., Nakamichi, A., Nienhauser, W. & Rasmussen, E. 2010, 'Regulating Employment Relations, Work and Labour Laws: International Comparisons between Key Countries', Special Issue (monograph) of the Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations, Vol. 74, The Netherlands, Wolters Kluwer.

Bamber, G.J., Park, F., Ross, P., Lee, C. & Broadbent, K. (eds) 2000, Employment Relations in the Asia Pacific: Changing Approaches, Routledge, Melbourne.

Bamber, G.J. & Lansbury, R.D. (eds) 1989, New Technology: International Perspectives on Human Resources and Industrial Relations, Routledge, London; republished as a Routledge Revival in 2014).

Bamber, G.J. & Lansbury, R.D. (eds) 1983, ‘Technological Change and Industrial Relations: An International Symposium’, A Special Issue of the Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations, The Netherlands, Wolters Kluwer, vol. 12, 224 pp.

Books and Monographs: Authored

Bamber, G.J., Gittell, J.H., Kochan, T.A. & von Nordenflytch, A.V. 2009, Up in the Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging their Employees, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.

Snape, E.J., Redman, T. & Bamber, G.J. 1994, Managing Managers: Strategies and Techniques for Human Resource Management, Blackwell, Oxford.

Bamber, G.J. 1986, Militant Managers?, Gower, Aldershot.