Jane Parker Adjunct Professor, Department of Management, Massey Business School, Massey University, Auckland New Zealand; and ETUI, Brussels, Belgium, Massey University, New Zealand
Jane Parker is professor of Employment/Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management (HRM) at Massey University in New Zealand. She co-directs the Massey People, Organisation, Work and Employment Research (MPOWER) Group, which examines an array of employment matters, and is an associate fellow of the Industrial Relations Research Unit at Warwick University. She has led research teams on various International Labor Organization (ILO)-commissioned projects, including empirical studies of labor law and child labor in Papua New Guinea, and social dialogue and gender equity in Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji. She has (co-)led Living Wage research in New Zealand since 2013 and works closely with living wage scholars in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. Her publications often relate to organizational equality and diversity, employee consultation, state regulation, and trade union strategy. She is co-editor in chief of Labour and Industry: A Journal of the Social and Economic Relations of Work. She is currently editing a book entitled Big Issues in Employment: HRM and Employment Relations in Australasia, building on a similar 2013 text for New Zealand. In 2016, she received the Massey University Business College Research Award—Individual (Distinction in Research). In 2017, she was named the New Zealand HR Researcher of the Year by the HR Institute of New Zealand. She is a foundation member of Project GLOW (Global Living Organizational Wage).
