Human Resource Management: Strategy and Practice

Jane Coffey has recently taken up the post of Academic Services Director for Curtin Business School, looking after teaching and learning quality at all offshore campuses. Prior to that, she was a Senior Lecturer with the School of Management, Curtin Business School and has held the position of Deputy Head of the School. She managed and taught a range of HRM and IR programs throughout Australia and Southeast Asia. Jane has actively contributed to the last four editions of the Nankervis HRM text and researches and publishes in the areas of career expectations of Generations X and Y, and attraction and retention issues within the performing arts. She is a past Chair and current Board member of Propel Youth Arts WA, the peak body for youth arts in the state. Jane also has significant corporate professional experience, operating a highly successful HR consultancy business prior to joining Curtin University. She specialised in providing support and advice to the public sector and maintains a significant consultancy profile in this area with the university. She also conducts and facilitates workshops throughout Australia in the areas of staff attraction and retention and performance management.Alan Nankervis is a Professor and Adjunct Research fellow at Curtin Uni, Perth. He has been lead author on this text for many editions and while considering retirement, he remains committed to the project.He has previously taught and researched at universities in Melbourne, Western Australia, Sydney, the United Kingdom, Indonesia and Thailand. He has co-authored or co-edited 10 books, and many scholarly articles and conference papers. Alan was co-editor of the journal, Research & Practice in Human Resource Management from 2001-2011. His research interests include strategic HRM, international and comparative HRM, HRM/management in the services industry, and performance management systems.Alan is currently the Chair of AHRI's national accreditation committee; his association with AHRI has led to their formal endorsement of this text for several editions.John Shields is Professor of Human Resource Management and Organisational Studies in the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School. John's research interests include performance management, reward management, executive remuneration, corporate governance and business and labour history. In human resource management, his co-authored books include Managing Employee Performance and Reward, Cambridge University Press, and Human Resource Management: Strategy and Practice. He is currently engaged in national and international collaborative research projects on the psychology of pay secrecy/disclosure, predictors of employee pay preferences, and mediators of the relationship between performance pay and employee motivation. His research projects involve both quantitative and qualitative methods and, more recently, survey-based experimental design.Marian Baird AO, FASSA, BEc (Hons) Grad. Dip. Ed. PhD (Sydney) is Professor of Gender and Employment Relations, Head of the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies and Co- Director of the Women, Work and Leadership Research Group at the University of Sydney Business School. Marian is a highly recognised academic and teacher in the fields of industrial relations, human resource management and gender and work. She has an active profile in industry and community engagement and has contributed to numerous enquiries about women, equity and work.