Fiona Edgar

Biography

Fiona teaches and researches in human resource management, industrial relations, and management theory. She worked in industry for a number of years prior to entering tertiary education. Fiona was a recipient of a Bright Futures Doctoral Scholarship. Her PhD examined the impact of legislation on HRM policy and practice. Her current research interests include HRM and, in particular, how HRM impacts on employees in the workplace, as well as the relationship between HRM and organisational performance. Her most recent work explores wellbeing and HRM within the context of knowledge workers. In 2008, Fiona won the University of Otago Early Career Award for Distinction in Research.   An article by Alan Geare, Fiona and Ian McAndrew - "Workplace Values and Beliefs: An Empirical Study of Ideology, High Commitment Management and Unionization” published in The International Journal of Human Resource Management volume 20 issue 5, has been selected as one of the 50 best articles out of 15,000 published in 2009 in the top 400 business and management journals and has therefore won an Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence.      

Research Interest

  Fiona’s research interests are: Human Resource Management – The Employee Perspective, Wellbeing in the workplace and Knowledge Workers Industrial Relations – Partnerships