Greg J. Bamber

Professor Greg Bamber is a distinguished British-Australian academic, researcher and writer. He is a Professor at the Department of Management, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Bamber was born in the United Kingdom (UK). In his early career, Bamber worked on research projects based at several UK universities (Imperial College, London; Oxford; and Warwick), in industry and at the UK Government’s former Commission on Industrial Relations and with its successor, the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service.

His post-school education was in the UK at the University of Manchester, the London School of Economics and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

He has helped to lead many competitive grant-funded research projects funded by the Australian Research Council and the UK Economic and Social Research Council. International agencies and enterprises have commissioned Bamber to conduct research projects and act as an advisor on human resources and industrial relations. He has been a visitor at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, as well as Cardiff University, Wales; he is Visiting Professor, Newcastle University, England.

Some of Bamber’s writing is controversial. He argues in favour of employee engagement in workplace decisions. In an influential book on airlines, he and his colleagues show that this is an effective strategy, for instance, when managing organizational change. They point to such successful instances as Southwest Airlines in the US and EasyJet in the UK. However, others reject such arguments and promote instead a tougher more autocratic and adversarial approach to managing organizational change, pointing to the way in which Ryanair changed civil aviation in Ireland and Europe and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation changed newspaper publishing in Australia, the UK and the USA.

His contributions to the fields of comparative management and employment relations are well regarded. The book by him and colleagues that was first published in 1987 is seen as "the standard work", which is used around the world on University courses on International and Comparative Employment Relations.

Bamber is recognised as an expert in the fields of management, human resources and industrial relations in aviation, health care, manufacturing and other sectors. He is a regular commentator in the electronic and printed mass media, especially in Australia and also in the UK.

Bamber has served as President of Australia & New Zealand Academy of management (ANZAM), International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management, Industrial Relations Society of Victoria (Australia) and the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia & New Zealand. He has served as a Director on several boards in the fields of education, healthcare, industrial relations and sport, as well as on more than 20 editorial boards for international journals.

In 2012 Bamber was awarded the esteemed title of Academician (Fellow) of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) UK.

"Professor Bamber's inclusion in this elite group of academics is testament to his excellence in the field of research and academia. Professor Bamber also has a wonderful ability to communicate his knowledge to the wider community via both mainstream and specialist media. It is this communication skill that will assist in his promotion of his work and that of the wider Monash research community." Monash University's President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Ed Byrne

Prof. Bamber has been elected also as Fellow of other prestigious professional academies and institutions, including:

• Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA)
• Australian Human Resources Institute (FAHRI)
• Australian Institute of Management (FAIM)
• Australia & New Zealand Academy of Management (LFANZAM)
• British Academy of Management: (FBAM)
• Chartered Institute of Management, UK (FCMI)
• Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, UK (FCIPD)
• Labor & Employment Relations Association, USA (FLERA)

• "Committee & Sub-Committees". Industrial Relations Society of Victoria. Retrieved 2014. 
• "2015 29th AIRAANZ Conference". Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand. Retrieved 2014. 
• "Australia's Academician". Monash University. Retrieved 2014. 

Bamber has made hundreds of presentations at conferences and seminars; he also has more than a hundred academic publications, including many articles in such leading international refereed journals as: British Journal of Industrial Relations; Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal; Industrial & Labor Relations Review; Industrial Relations Journal; International Journal of Human Resource Management; Higher Education Review; Human Relations; Human Resource Management Journal; Journal of Industrial Relations; Journal of Management Studies; Public Administration. He has published numerous articles, book chapters and several books e.g.

• With Van Gramberg, B., Teicher. J. & Cooper, B., 2014, 'Conflict Management in Australian Workplaces', in W. Roche, P. Teague & A. Colvin (eds) Oxford Handbook of Conflict Management in Organizations.
• With Townsend, K., Wilkinson, A., & Allan, C., 2012, 'Accidental, Unprepared and Unsupported: Clinical Nurses Becoming Managers’. International Journal of Human Resource Management.
• With Lansbury, R.D., Wailes, N. & Wright, C.F. (eds) 2016, International and Comparative Employment Relations: National Regulation, Global Changes* 6th edn, Sage, London.
• With Gittell, J.H, Kochan, T.A. & von Nordenflytch, A., 2009, Up in the Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging their Employees, Cornell University Press, Ithaca.

• "Professor Greg Bamber". Retrieved 2015. 
• Roche, WK; Teague, P; Colvin, AJS. "The Oxford Handbook of Conflict Management in Organizations". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2014. 
• "Accidental, unprepared, and unsupported: clinical nurses becoming managers". The International Journal of Human Resource Management. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 2014. 
• "International and Comparative Employment Relations". Sage Online. Sage Publications. Retrieved 2015. 
• "Up in the Air". Cornell University Press. Retrieved 2014.