Managing Employee Performance and Reward

John Shields is Deputy Dean (Education) of the University of Sydney Business School and Professor of Human Resource Management and Organisational Studies in the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies. Professor Shields holds a PhD in Economic History from the University of Sydney (1990). His principal areas of research and teaching include performance management, reward management, executive remuneration and corporate governance, and business and labour history. He is currently engaged in national and international collaborative research projects in the fields of strategic reward configuration, predictors of employee pay preferences, the impact of the director human and social capital on firm financial performance, and the relationship between employee emotional intelligence, cultural value orientation and workplace wellbeing.

Jim Rooney has lectured on undergraduate and postgraduate accounting units in topics ranging from financial/management accounting through to corporate governance. Rooney has completed appointments as a Research Fellow at the Weatherhead Centre for International Relations at Harvard University as well as the Sustainability Transparency Accountability Research (STAR) Lab at Sydney University, working with senior academics at Harvard, Stanford and Sydney Universities. He also serves on the Editorial Working Party of the Labour History journal and the Executive of the Sydney branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. Over the past five years, Rooney has served in official capacities for the Genesis student entrepreneurial competition and on the technical committee of the Sydney University Economic Model. Prior to his full time appointment at the University of Sydney, Rooney has had twenty-five years business experience in general management, service operations, accounting, consulting and Information Technology roles, largely in the Financial Services industry.

Michelle Brown is a Professor of Human Resource Management in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne. Her research examines the unintended consequences of human resource management policies and practices, with a particular focus on pay and performance management. Current projects investigate how immigrants fare under performance management systems, performance pay complaints, strategic reward configuration and predictors of employee pay preferences.

Sarah Kaine lectures in human resource management (HRM) and international relations in the School of Management at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her research focuses on several broad themes: employee representation, the development and exercise of employee voice, the formal and informal regulation of employment relations and HRM and sustainability. Specifically Dr Kaine is interested in innovation in employment regulation – beyond the bounds of traditional labour law, corporate social responsibility and its link to industrial relations and the role of leadership in promoting sustainability and corporate social responsibility. Prior to becoming an academic she worked as an industrial relations practitioner and a consultant to not-for-profit organisations.