His interests include: employment relations; people management; organisational/technological change; high-performance work systems or ‘smart workplaces’; arbitration, dispute prevention and settlement, mediation and negotiation; international comparisons and transferability of management styles and employment relations arrangements; and various industries including: aviation, education including universities, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, public sector, sport, telecommunications and transport.
He has supervised successfully more than a dozen PhD theses as well as numerous masters and honours dissertations. Most of these involved research access with partners in government, industry or other organisations.
