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Fiona Edgar 2023 imagePhD BCom(Hons) DipGrad(Otago) NZCSMgmt

Professor

Room: OBS 809
Tel +64 3 479 8091
Email fiona.edgar@otago.ac.nz

Fiona teaches and researches in human resource management. She worked in industry 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 how HRM impacts on employees' wellbeing at work as well as the relationship between HRM and organisational performance. Her most recent work is focused on undertanding the role of sustainable HRM at work, along with its implementation and impacts.

Fiona has undertaken several senior leadership roles within the Otago Business School. From 2016 to 2019, Fiona was the Associate Dean Postgraduate and from 2019 to 2024 was the Head of Department for Management.

Fiona has received several research accolades, including winning the University of Otago Early Career Award for Distinction in Research in 2008 and her article titled “Workplace Values and Beliefs: An Empirical Study of Ideology, High Commitment Management and Unionization” published with Alan Geare and Ian McAndrew in The International Journal of Human Resource Management volume 20 issue 5, was 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.

Teaching responsibilities

Fiona's current teaching responsibilities include:

Research interests

Fiona's research interests are:

  • Strategic Human Resource Management - Sustainable Human Resource Management

Current supervisions

Fiona is currently supervising the following students:

DBA

  • Raka Biswas (2024), Leadership Development

Publications

Cooper, J., Podgorodnichenko, N., & Edgar, F. (2024). Sustainable behaviour at work: The role of HRM, goal clarity and commitment. Proceedings of the 37th Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference. 266. Retrieved from https://anzamconference.org/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Edgar, F., Zhang, J., Podgorodnichenko, N., & Akmal, A. (2024). Exploring the impact of egalitarianism on employee proactivity: Unpacking the mediating role of relational social capital. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1108/JOEPP-10-2023-0480 Journal - Research Article

Edgar, F., Zhang, J. A., Podgorodnichenko, N., & Akmal, A. (2024). Competitive strategy delivery in the service sector: A study of the behavioural model. Personnel Review. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1108/PR-11-2023-0934 Journal - Research Article

Wojtczuk-turek, A., Turek, D., Edgar, F., Klein, H. J., Bosak, J., Okay-Somerville, B., … Podgorodnichenko, N., … Schmitz, S. (2024). Sustainable human resource management and job satisfaction: Unlocking the power of organizational identification: A cross‐cultural perspective from 54 countries. Corporate Social Responsibility & Environmental Management. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/csr.2815 Journal - Research Article

Podgorodnichenko, N., Edgar, F., & Akmal, A. (2024, January). Sustainable HRM: Towards changing approaches and logics. Verbal presentation at the 5th Human Resources International Conference (HRIC): Common Good Human Resource Management, Dunedin, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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