Faculty staff profile

Carol Gill has specialised in the fields of executive learning and development, human resource management and organisation development, as both an academic and practitioner, for more than 25 years.

In addition to directing the Graduate Diploma in Organisational Leadership, Carol teaches on the MBA and designs and delivers executive education for Melbourne Business School. She is a senior fellow of the University of Melbourne. A registered psychologist, Carol has worked in key roles within major Australian private and public sector organisations and global enterprises in areas as diverse as leadership and executive development, human resources, workplace performance, employee relations, recruitment and change management.

At BHP, she was a director of the company’s Global Leadership Program, was involved in the teams that introduced TQM and executed a division-wide process reengineering project. She has consulted to private sector clients including Bank of Melbourne, BHP, CitiPower, United Energy, Austa Electric (Queensland), Ericsson, National Mutual and Mallinckrodt Australia.

In the public sector, she has consulted to the Department of Aviation, State Revenue Office, Business Victoria, State Development Department, Victorian Legal Aid and Dental Health Services Victoria.

Recent publications and working papers

• How unions impact on the state of the psychological contract to facilitate the adoption of new work practices
• The impact of culture on inter and intra organization supply chains at Nissan
• Union Impact on the Effective Adoption of High Performance Work Practices
• The relationship between New Work Practices, trust and unions
• The relationship between union presence, employee relations and the adoption of High Performance Work Practices
• A Review of the Critical Perspective on Human Resource Management
• High Performance Work Practices: An examination of adoption and impact in large Australian Organizations
• High and Low Road approaches to the management of Human Resources: an examination of the relationship between Business Strategy, Human Resource Management and High Performance Work Practices
• Does Human Resource Management use rhetoric to construct reality for employees?
• View all Carol 's working papers & publications