Professor Peter Boxall

PhD Monash, MCom, CFHRINZ

Chair in Human Resource Mgmt

In: Management and International Business » Faculty of Business and Economics

Biography

Professor Peter Boxall has worked in corporate business (at Powell Duffryn Ltd, UK), in management consultancy (at PricewaterhouseCoopers) and in tertiary education.

He holds an MCom from the University of Auckland and a PhD from Monash University (where he was a research fellow in the National Key Centre in Industrial Relations in 1990-91). In 1998 and 2006, he was a Visiting Professor in the Work and Employment Research Centre at the University of Bath. In 2013, he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Human Resources at Tilburg University and in the Work, Employment and Health research group at Toulouse Business School.

He is the author of various articles in international journals and co-author or editor of eight books, including (with John Purcell) Strategy and Human Resource Management (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, 2008, 2011, 2016) and (with John Purcell and Patrick Wright) The Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management (Oxford University Press, 2007).

He is a consulting editor of Human Resource Management Journal and of the International Journal of Management Reviews, an associate editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Management Studies and the international advisory board of the British Journal of Industrial Relations.

At the University of Auckland, Dr Boxall has held various administrative roles. He is currently Associate Dean: PBRF.

Positions Held:
From	To	Institution	Position Held
1990	1991	Monash University	Research Fellow - National Key Centre in Industrial Relations
1985	1986	Price Waterhouse	Human Resource Consultant
1980	1985	Manukau Polytechnic	Tutor/Senior Tutor - Economics and Management
1978	1979	Powell Duffryn Ltd (UK)	Assistant Accountant

Research | Current

Research Interests:

Strategic HRM: How HRM affects business performance, including high-performance work systems
Work and wellbeing: How job quality and the work environment affect employee wellbeing

Teaching | Current

2018	MGMT 223	Understanding Work and People
2018	GLMI 705	People, Performance and Well-being

Postgraduate supervision

Currently supervising a range of PhD and Masters students working on topics in HRM.

Distinctions/Honours

2013	Business School Distinguished Contribution Award
2011	Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence
2010	Fellow of the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand
2007	Business School Award for Sustained Excellence in Research
2003	Dutch HRM Network Award
1986	Westpac Prize: best thesis in Management Studies

Responsibilities

Associate Dean: PBRF, Faculty of Business and Economics

Areas of expertise

Strategic human resource management

Work and employee well-being

Committees/Professional groups/Services

Associate Dean: Research, 2008-2012, 2014-7

Associate Editor, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 1992-

Human Resource Management Journal, Advisory Board Member, 2001-7; Associate Editor, 2008-13; Consulting Editor, 2014-

Chair, Faculty of Business & Economics Library Committee, 2000 - 2005

Chair, Review of the Department of Management, Monash University, 2003

Consulting Editor, International Journal of Management Reviews, 2006-

Editorial board member, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2008-13.

Editorial board member, Journal of Management Studies, 2007-

Head of Department of Management and Employment Relations, 2002 - 2005

International Advisory Board Member, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2007-

President, Academic Branch, Human Resources Institute of New Zealand, 2009-12

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Huo, M.-L., & Boxall, P. (2018). Are all aspects of lean production bad for workers? An analysis of how problem-solving demands affect employee well-being. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 28 (4), 569-584. 10.1111/1748-8583.12204
Huo, M.-L., Boxall, P., & Cheung, G. W. (2018). How does line-manager support enhance worker wellbeing? A study in China. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 1-19. 10.1080/09585192.2017.1423103
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Gordon Cheung
Boxall, P. (2018). The development of strategic HRM: reflections on a 30-year journey. Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic relations of work, 28 (1), 21-30. 10.1080/10301763.2018.1427423
Huo, M.-L., & Boxall, P. (2018). Instrumental work values and responses to HR practices A study of job satisfaction in a Chinese manufacturer. PERSONNEL REVIEW, 47 (1), 60-73. 10.1108/PR-01-2017-0015
Huo, M.-L., & Boxall, P. (2017). Lean production and the well-being of the frontline manager: the job demands - resources model as a diagnostic tool in Chinese manufacturing. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 55 (3), 280-297. 10.1111/1744-7941.12152
Moloney, W., Boxall, P., Parsons, M., & Cheung, G. (2017). Factors predicting Registered Nurses' intentions to leave their organization and profession: A job demands-resources framework. JAN: Journal of Advanced Nursing, 74 (4), 864-875. 10.1111/jan.13497
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/42962
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Matthew Parsons, Willoughby Moloney, Gordon Cheung
Boxall, P., Guthrie, J. P., & Paauwe, J. (2016). Editorial introduction: progressing our understanding of the mediating variables linking HRM, employee well-being and organisational performance. Human Resource Management Journal, 26 (2), 103-111. 10.1111/1748-8583.12104
Boxall, P., & Macky, K. (2016). High performance work systems: Involvement versus intensification. In N. M. Ashkanasy, R. J. Bennett, M. J. Martinko (Eds.) Understanding the high performance workplace: The line between motivation and abuse (pp. 85-102). New York, USA: Routledge.