Jane Parker (academic)

Jane Parker
Alma mater	University of Auckland University of Warwick
Awards	2017 NZ HR Researcher of the Year 2019 NZ HR Research Team of the Year Member
Scientific career
Fields	Labour relations human resource management
Institutions	Massey University Warwick University University of Auckland Auckland University of Technology
Thesis	Women's equality in British unions: the roles and impacts of women's group organising  (2000)
Doctoral advisor	Emeritus Professor Linda Dickens (University of Warwick, England)
Website	http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=228040

Jane Parker is a New Zealand employment relations academic. She was a full professor at Massey University from 2013, before joining the European Trade Union Institute as a senior researcher. Parker is a co-editor in chief of the journal Labour and Industry: A journal of the Social and Economic Relations of Work.

Education

After completing a BA/BCom and Masters at the University of Auckland, Parker wrote a 2000 PhD thesis titled Women's equality in British unions: the roles and impacts of women's group organising at the University of Warwick.

Academic career

While teaching and researching at Warwick Business School, Parker was part of the peer review group for the European Industrial Relations Dictionary, published by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound). She returned to New Zealand in 2008 to work firstly at Auckland University of Technology and after that at Massey University, where she rose to full professor in 2013. She later moved to become a senior researcher at the European Trade Union Institute, retaining an adjunct position at Massey. She has undertaken work for the Economic and Social Research Council.

Parker has also worked with the International Labour Organization (ILO), Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) and the New Zealand Living Wage movement. Parker was funded by the ILO to investigate employment policy in Papua New Guinea. Parker was part of a collaborative Marsden grant with researchers at the Auckland University of Technology that used a national survey, interviews and case studies to investigate the costs and benefits of the living wage. The research findings were presented to the International Labour Organisation, and influenced one city council to pay a living wage to all employees and contractors.

Parker is co-editor in chief of Labour and Industry: A journal of the Social and Economic Relations of Work; editorial board member of Human Relations; editorial advisory board member of Employee Relations; and the co-director of the Massey University People, Organisation, Work and Employment Research (MPOWER) Group. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Industrial Relations Research Unit at the University of Warwick (UK). In June 2021, she was elected at the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) World Congress as a member of the ILERA Executive Committee. Parker is also an executive committee member of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ).

Parker won the HRNZ Researcher of the Year award in 2017, and was part of the team that won the HRNZ Research Team of the Year award in 2019. She also was awarded the best labour and industry paper award in 2010 by AIRAANZ, alongside Jim Arrowsmith.

Selected works

Authored and edited books

• Parker, J. (ed.) with Arrowsmith, J. (2013) The Big Issues in Employment: HR Management and Employment Relations in New Zealand. Auckland: CCH (Wolters Kluwer). ISBN 9781775470175
• Parker, J. (ed) with Baird, M. (2018) The Big Issues in Employment: HR Management and Employment Relations in Australasia. Auckland: CCH (Wolters Kluwer). ISBN 9781775472285
• Parker, J. (2003). Women's Equality in British Unions: The roles of Women's Group Organising. Ceredigion, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press ISBN 978-0773467101
• Deeks, J., Parker, J. and Ryan, R. (1994) Labour and Employment Relations in New Zealand. Auckland: Longman Paul. ISBN 0582860059

Book chapters

• Parker, J., Donnelly, N., Sayers, J., Young-Hauser, A., Barnett, S., Paea, S. and Loga, P. 2023. Women's Equity Progress in Aotearoa New Zealand's Public Service. In H. Conley and P. Koskinen Sandberg (eds) Handbook on gender and Public Sector Employment. Edward Elgar. ISBN 978 1 80037 822 3
• Parker, J. 2023. Europe in transition and workplace democracy: Towards a strong Social Europe. In N. Countournis, A. Piasna and S. Theodoropoulou (eds). Benchmarking Working Europe 2023: Europe in Transition – Towards sustainable resilience. Chapter 6, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Brussels, pp 143–171. ISBN 978-2-87452-667-1
• Parker, J. and Donnelly, N. (2021). Gender Equality Developments in Aotearoa New Zealand: Implications for Japan?. In G. Eweje and S. Ngano (eds). Corporate Social Responsibility and Gender Equality in Japan (chapter 12). Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-030-75153-1

Scholarly articles

• J. Arrowsmith; J. Parker (5 March 2013). "The meaning of 'employee engagement' for the values and roles of the HRM function". International Journal of Human Resource Management. 24 (14): 2692–2712. doi:10.1080/09585192.2013.763842. ISSN 0958-5192. Wikidata Q130170679.
• Stuart C. CARR; Jane PARKER; James ARROWSMITH; Paul A. WATTERS (March 2016). "The living wage: Theoretical integration and an applied research agenda". International Labour Review. 155 (1): 1–24. doi:10.1111/J.1564-913X.2015.00029.X. ISSN 0020-7780. Wikidata Q130171908.
• Jane Parker (March 2002). "Women's Groups in British Unions". British Journal of Industrial Relations. 40 (1): 23–48. doi:10.1111/1467-8543.00221. ISSN 0007-1080. Wikidata Q130169724.
• Jane Parker (15 August 2008). "The Trades Union Congress and civil alliance building: towards social movement unionism?". Employee Relations. 30 (5): 562–583. doi:10.1108/01425450810888312. ISSN 0142-5455. Wikidata Q130169732.
• Wahab Shahbaz; Jane Parker (September 2022). "Workplace mindfulness: An integrative review of antecedents, mediators, and moderators". Human Resource Management Review. 32 (3): 100849. doi:10.1016/J.HRMR.2021.100849. ISSN 1053-4822. Wikidata Q130173834.
• Jane Parker; Noelle Donnelly (9 July 2020). "The revival and refashioning of gender pay equity in New Zealand". Journal of Industrial Relations. 62 (4): 560–581. doi:10.1177/0022185620929374. ISSN 0022-1856. Wikidata Q130173613.

External links

• Publications by Jane Parker at ResearchGate
• Official website