Professor Peter Boxall

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, 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 Business School, Dr Boxall has held various administrative roles, including as Associate Dean: Research and Associate Dean: Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF).

Research | Current

• 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

Postgraduate supervision

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

Distinctions/Honours

Areas of expertise

Strategic human resource management

Work and employee well-being 

Committees/Professional groups/Services