John Shields
BA(Hons) ANU; PhD
Associate Professor
J.Shields@econ.usyd.edu.au
Room N331
H03 Institute Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 5425
Fax: +61 2 9351 4729
John Shields is an Associate Professor in the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney, where he teaches human resource management and employment relations. His principal areas of research and publication are performance management, reward management, executive remuneration and corporate governance, and business and labour history. In the field of reward management, his recent publications include a monograph (Managing Employee Performance and Reward, Cambridge University Press, 2007) and a series of studies of comparative remuneration practice in Australian and Canadian firms. John has investigated the role of organizational justice and the psychological contract in the employment relationship and employee performance and has published a number of articles in these areas. He is currently researching reward structure and business performance in the Australian franchises of a major international retail network as part of a collaborative project comparing pay and performance across four countries (the USA, China, Poland, and Australia). Another of his current projects is an Australian Research Council funded quantitative investigation of executive remuneration, corporate governance and firm performance in Australian listed companies. Other collaborative studies currently underway include Australian and international studies of non-union bargaining and employee voice, an industry partnership study of cross-cultural effects on emotional intelligence assessment, a study of human resource practice and firm performance in small-medium Australian accounting firms, and a history of Citigroup in Australia. John is a Chartered Member of the Australian Human Resources Institute and associate editor of the journal Labour History.
Research Expertise
- Human resource management
- Labour history and locality
- Peak trade unions
- Performance management
- Regional industrial relations
- Remuneration and reward management