Staff profile

Dr Nicola McNeil

Lecturer

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

La Trobe Business School
Department of Management

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BCom (Hons) LLB (Monash) PhD

Area of study

Human Resource Management
Management

Brief Profile

Nicola McNeil is a lecturer in Management at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Nicola has completed a Bachelor of Commerce [Hons] and a Bachelor of Laws at Monash University and a PhD at Deakin University. Nicola’s PhD studies investigated the effect of new public management reforms in higher education on the strategic activities of Australian Universities. Her current research interests include the implications of new public management reforms, the impact of institutional forces on organisational processes and practices and survey methodologies.  Nicola is the current Treasurer and member of the Executive Management Committee of the Australian Consortium of Social and Political Research Incorporated [ACSPRI].

Nicola is the subject coordinator of the School's first year management subject, and is responsible for the coordination of the School's Honours Program.  In 2009, Nicola received a LaTrobe University Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning.

Teaching Units

 

MGT1FOM Foundations of Management

MGT3OSD Organisational Structure and Design

MGT4RMA Research Methodology

 

 

Recent Publications

 

Books Chapters  

Blunsdon, B. and McNeil, N. (2010) ‘Personal communities and lifestyle: the role of family, friends and neighbours’ in Blyton, P., Blunsdon, B., Reed, K., Dastamalchian, A. (Eds.) in Blyton, P., Blunsdon, B., Reed, K., Dastamalchian, A. (Eds) Ways of Living: Work, Organizations, Communities and Lifestyle Choices, Basinstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.  

Blunsdon, B. and McNeil, N. (2006) ‘State policy and work life integration: Past, present and future approaches’ in Blyton, P., Blunsdon, B., Reed, K., Dastamalchian, A. (Eds.) Work-Life Integration: International Perspectives on Managing Multiple Roles. Basinstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.  

 

Refereed Journal Articles  

Reed, K., N. McNeil and B. Blunsdon (2006) ‘Older Australians: involvement in the civil society in the 1990s’. Australian Journal of Volunteering, 11(2): 38-50.  

Blunsdon, B., Reed. K. and McNeil, N. (2005) ‘Social innovators or lagging behind: factors that influence managers’ time use.’ Women in Management Review, 20(8): 544-561.  

Blunsdon, B., Reed, K., McEachern, S. and McNeil, N. (2003) ‘Teaching Organisational theory in Undergraduate Management Program: an exercise in facilitated theory testing for active experimentation’. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 27(1): 3-14.  

Blunsdon, B., Reed, K., McNeil, N. and McEachern, S. (2003) ‘Experiential Learning in Social Sciences Theory: An Investigation of the relationship between student enjoyment and learning’. Higher Education Research & Development, 22(1): 43-56.