Staff profile

Qualifications

MA Oxford, MA Warwick

Area of study

Human Resource Management

Brief Profile

Professor Malcolm Rimmer was appointed Head of the School of Business in April 2005. A graduate of Oxford and Warwick Universities in the UK, before joining La Trobe he held several academic appointments in both Britain and Australia. Between 1989 and 1994 he was Professor and Director of the National Key Centre in Industrial Relations at Monash University. Between 1995 and 2005 he was Professor of Human Resource Management at Deakin University. During his time at Deakin University he was Head of the Bowater School of Management and Marketing and spent three years as the elected professorial representative on Council.

In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia, and in 2003 he was awarded a Centenary Medal for a distinguished academic career.

He has extensive consulting and policy experience and has worked with major corporations, the Business Council of Australia, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and various federal government departments.

His teaching experience spans the subjects of management, human resource management, and industrial relations, and includes undergraduate and post-graduate teaching (including MBA), and doctoral research supervision. He has taught extensively on executive programs.

He has authored or co-authored eleven books and monographs, twenty three chapters in books, and twenty six refereed journal articles. He has also held two ARC Discovery Grants and raised $496,000 in research project grants. His recent books include a co-authored text - Managing Organisational Change (2006). In 2004 he contributed a chapter on trade unions to the official centenary history of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission. In 2007 he became co-editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources. In 2008 he was elected Chair of Academic Board at La Trobe University.