Professor Peter Boxall
PhD Monash, MCom, FHRINZ
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: Research and PBRF.
Positions Held: |
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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
- 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
2015 |
MGMT 711 |
Strategic Human Resource Management |
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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: Research and 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- |
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). 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
- 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. Journal of advanced nursing10.1111/jan.13497
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Matthew Parsons, Willoughby Moloney, Gordon Cheung - 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
- 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. 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.
- Boxall, P. F., & Purcell, J. (2016). Strategy and human resource management (4th). London, UK: Palgrave.
- Le Fevre, M., Boxall, P., & Macky, K. (2015). Which workers are more vulnerable to work intensification? An analysis of two national surveys. International Journal of Manpower, 36 (6), 966-983. 10.1108/IJM-01-2014-0035
- Boxall, P., & Winterton, J. (2015). Which conditions foster high-involvement work processes? A synthesis of the literature and agenda for research. Economic and Industrial Democracy10.1177/0143831X15599584
Identifiers
Contact details
- +64 9 923 7355
- +64.9.923.7355
- p.boxall@auckland.ac.nz
- Media Contact
Primary location
OWEN G GLENN BUILDING - Bldg 260
Level 4, Room 459
12 GRAFTON RD
AUCKLAND 1010
New Zealand