Core Areas of Research
People and Performance Management
Dr Pauline Stanton and Dr Suzanne Young teach, research and consult in the people management
area at the Graduate School of Management. This includes strategic human resource management,
industrial relations, organizational behaviour and leadership and general human resource development.
Their current research projects include:
- Linking People Management to Performance in the healthcare industry.
This project includes a large scale survey and case study research in Victorian public hospitals.
Personnel include Dr Pauline Stanton, Dr Suzanne Young, Professor Raymond Harbridge, and Nicole El Haber from
the GSM, Dr Tim Bartram and Benjamin Fraser from the School of Business and Dr Sandy Leggat
from the School of Public Health.
- Human Resource Management in an emerging Asian economy: a focus on Vietnam.
This study focuses on the development of human resource management in Vietnam and is currently
being carried out by Dr Thomas and Dr Stanton with Dr Tim Bartram.
- The determinants of trade union membership and union commitment.
This project was carried out by Dr Stanton and Dr Bartram in conjunction with the Australian
Nursing Federation Victorian Branch and reports on the attitudes of a large scale survey
of union members to their membership of that union.
- Human resource management in Chinese hospitals.
This study is being carried out in hospitals in Sichuan Province China with Dr Pei LiKun from
the School of Public Health at La Trobe University and Liu Yi from Sichuan University.
- Leadership development and change management policy in the Australian Defence forces.
This project is being carried out By Dr Thomas in conjunction with the Centre for Defence Command,
Leadership and Management which is located at the Australian Defence College, Canberra
- Knowledge Management and the Learning Organisation.
This research project involves a guided research study by Dr Thomas in conjunction with post-graduate
students at the GSM. It is based on a meta-analysis of published literature.
Please use the following links to Pauline Stanton and Dr Suzanne Young biographies for a full resume of refereed and non refereed papers, book chapters,
journal articles and reports for the last five years.
Training, Facilitation and consultancy are offered in a range of areas including:
- People and Performance (Understanding context, Strategic HRM based on defined outcomes, Building
high performance teams and organisations)
- HRM measurement and effectiveness including both qualitative and quantitative measures
- HRM Skill development (see Executive Education link for further details)
- Human resource development including training needs analysis
- Leading and Managing Change
- Understanding and influencing behaviour in organisations
- Strategy Planning and Change Management
Teaching in the GSM includes:
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Organisational Behavoiur
- Developing People and Performance
- International Human Resource Management
- International Employment Relations
- The Leadership Challenge
Our Philosphy of the Teaching / Learning Process
We seek to create a collaborative and active student- focused learning environment, while seeking
to integrate desired outcomes in terms of a balance between practical application and a sound
understanding of theory (know How to as well as Why). This will ensure that course content is
able to be transferred to the workplace, but also able to be adapted and so sustained in the
workplace. The teachuing process also actively encourages student participation, recognises that
individual learners’ have particular requirements, as that all workers bring with them valuable
experiences that can add to the collaborative.
Both Dr Stanton and Dr Young have extensive experience in industry as well as in the teaching
environment. They have teaching experience with post-graduate domestic and international students
at the GSM, as well as overseas in China, Vietnam and Mongolia.
Teaching Process
- Interactive teaching
- Problem based learning in particular dealing with problems that students bring to the classroom
- Skill based – problem analysis and systems based practical (connecting issues to wider strategy
and reality) application
- Some use of relevant Case Studies
Skill development
- Report writing
- Problem solving
- Research skills
- Presentation and communication skills
- Critical Conceptual thinking
For further information please contact:
Dr Pauline Stanton
Tel: +61 03 94793123
Email: p.stanton@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Suzanne Young
Tel: +61 03 94793118
Email: s.h.young@latrobe.edu.au
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