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Professor Peter Boxall
Associate Dean: Research
Department:
Management and International Business
Address:Owen G Glenn Building
12 Grafton Road
Auckland
Faculty:Business & Economics
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 Ext. 87355
Email: p.boxall@auckland.ac.nz

History
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 in 2006, he was a Visiting Professor in the Work and Employment Research Centre at the University of Bath. 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, 2008). He is an Associate Editor of Human Resource Management Journal and Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Studies, the British Journal of Industrial Relations, the International Journal of Human Resource Management, and the International Journal of Management Reviews. At Auckland University, Dr Boxall has held various administrative roles, including Head of the Department of Management and Employment Relations (2002-2005). He is currently Associate Dean: Research.
Qualifications:
1992 Doctor of Philosophy (Human Resource Management) Monash University
1987 Master of Commerce (Management Studies) University of Auckland
1977 Bachelor of Commerce (Economics) University of Auckland
1977 Dip Tchg Secondary Teachers College
Special Interests:
Strategy and Human Resource Management
Positions Held:
FromToInstitutionPosition 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
Awards:
2007 Business School Award for Sustained Excellence in Research
2006 Visiting Professor - University of Bath
2006 Visiting Professor - University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
2003 Dutch HRM Network Award (with John Purcell, for the book, Strategy and Human Resource Management. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
1998 Visiting Professor - University of Bath
1986 Westpac Prize: best thesis in Management Studies
Service:
Associate Dean: Research, 2008-
Associate Editor, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 1992-
Associate Editor, Human Resource Management Journal, 2008-
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-
Editorial board member, Journal of Management Studies, 2007-
Head of Department of Management and Employment Relations, March 2002 - March 2005
International Advisory Board Member, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2007-
International Advisory Board Member, Human Resource Management Journal, 2001-
Teaching:
2009 HRMGMT 705 Strategic Human Resource Management
2009 HRMGMT 708 Performance Management and Reward Systems
Research Interests:
HR systems and organisational performance, including high-performance work systems

Strategic HRM: the role of HRM in business viablity and relative performance

Worker well-being: quality of working life, job satisfaction, attitudes to management and unions

Selected Publications:
Refereed Journal Articles
2009 BOXALL, P.,  MACKY, K.,  ‘Research and theory on high-performance work systems: progressing the high-involvement stream‘, Human Resource Management Journal 19, 1, 3-23.
2008 MACKY, K.,  BOXALL, P.,  ‘High-involvement work processes, work intensification and employee well-being: a study of New Zealand worker experiences‘, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources 46, 1, 38-55.
2007 BOXALL, P.,  GILBERT, J.,  ‘The management of managers: a review and conceptual framework‘, International Journal of Management Reviews 9(2), 1-21.
2007 MACKY, K.,  BOXALL, P.,  ‘The relationship between 'high-performance work practices' and employee attitudes: an investigation of additive and interaction effects‘, International Journal of Human Resource Management 18(4), 537-67.
2006 HAYNES, P.,  BOXALL, P.,  MACKY, K.,  ‘Union reach, the ‘representation gap’ and the prospects for unionism in New Zealand‘, Journal of Industrial Relations 48(2), 193-216.
2005 HAYNES, P.,  VOWLES, J.,  BOXALL, P.,  ‘Explaining the younger-older worker union density gap: evidence from New Zealand‘, British Journal of Industrial Relations 43(1), 93-116.
2005 HAYNES, P.,  BOXALL, P.,  MACKY, K.,  ‘Non-union voice and the effectiveness of joint consultation in New Zealand‘, Economic and Industrial Democracy 26(2), 229-256.
2005 PEEL, S.,  BOXALL, P.,  ‘When is contracting preferable to employment? An exploration of management and worker perspectives‘, Journal of Management Studies 42(8), 1679-1701.
2005 HAESLI, A.,  BOXALL, P.,  ‘When knowledge management meets HR strategy: an exploration of personalisation-retention and codification-recruitment configurations‘, International Journal of Human Resource Management 16(11), 1957-77.
2003 BOXALL, P.,  ‘HR strategy and competitive advantage in the service sector‘, Human Resource Management Journal 13(3), 5-20.
2003 MARCHINGTON, M.,  CARROLL, M.,  BOXALL, P.,  ‘Labour scarcity, the resource-based view, and the survival of the small firm: a study at the margins of the UK road haulage industry‘, Human Resource Management Journal 13(4), 5-22.
2000 BOXALL, P.,  PURCELL, J.,  ‘Strategic human resource management: where have we come from and where should we be going?‘, International Journal of Management Reviews 2(2), 183-203.
1999 BOXALL, P.,  ‘Achieving competitive advantage through human resource strategy: towards a theory of industry dynamics‘, Human Resource Management Review 8(3), 265-88.
1999 BOXALL, P.,  STEENEVELD, M.,  ‘Human resource strategy and competitive advantage: a longitudinal study of engineering consultancies‘, Journal of Management Studies 36(4), 443-63.
1998 HUNT, J.,  BOXALL, P.,  ‘Are top human resource specialists strategic partners? Self-perceptions of a corporate elite‘, International Journal of Human Resource Management 9(5), 767-781.
1997 BOXALL, P.,  HAYNES, P.,  ‘Strategy and trade union effectiveness in a neo-liberal environment‘, British Journal of Industrial Relations 35(4), 567-591.
1996 BOXALL, P.,  ‘The strategic HRM debate and the resource-based view of the firm‘, Human Resource Management Journal 6(3), 59-75.
1995 BOXALL, P.,  ‘Building the theory of comparative HRM‘, Human Resource Management Journal 5(5), 5-17.
1993 BOXALL, P.,  ‘The significance of human resource management: a reconsideration of the evidence‘, International Journal of Human Resource Management 4(3), 645-664.
1992 BOXALL, P.,  ‘Strategic human resource management: beginnings of a new theoretical sophistication?‘, Human Resource Management Journal 2(3), 60-79.
Books
2008 BOXALL, P.,  PURCELL, J.,  ‘Strategy and Human Resource Management‘, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 334pp.
2007 BOXALL, P.,  PURCELL, J.,  WRIGHT, P.,  ‘The Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management‘, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 658pp.
2007 FREEMAN, R.,  BOXALL, P.,  HAYNES, P.,  ‘What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace‘, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 244pp.
2003 BOXALL, P.,  PURCELL, J.,  ‘Strategy and Human Resource Management‘, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 304pp.