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Fiona Jacqueline Edgar (née McCullough) is a New Zealand management academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in human resource management and employment relations. As of 2024 she is head of the Department of Management at Otago.

Academic career

Edgar was the first business school recipient of a Bright Futures Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship. She completed a PhD titled Regulating for best practice in human resource management: The impact of the good employer obligation at the University of Otago in 2002. Her research was supervised by Mary Mallon, Ian McAndrew and Alan Geare. Edgar then joined the faculty of the Department of Management at the University of Otago, rising to associate professor in 2018 and full professor in 2023. As of 2024 she is head of Otago's Department of Management.

Egar's research focuses on the connection between human resource management and performance. She is concerned that employee views were considered in human resource management research. Edgar also researches how human resource management is linked to sustainability and organisational performance. In 2019, Edgar co-authored research that showed the cost to organisations of lost productivity due to employee alcohol use could be up to $1.65 billion annually.

Edgar is on the editorial boards of the journals Labour and Industry and The International Journal of Human Resource Management.

In 2008, Edgar was awarded an Early Career Researcher Award for Distinction in Research by the university. Edgar's 2009 paper with Alan Geare and Ian McAndrew, "Workplace Values and Beliefs: An Empirical Study of Ideology, High Commitment Management and Unionization", was chosen as one of the 50 best articles out of 15,000 published in the field in 2009.

Selected works

• Alan Geare; Fiona Edgar; Ian McAndrew (May 2009). "Workplace values and beliefs: an empirical study of ideology, high commitment management and unionisation". International Journal of Human Resource Management. 20 (5): 1146–1171. doi:10.1080/09585190902850331. ISSN 0958-5192. Wikidata Q125797288.
• Fiona Edgar; Alan J. Geare (1 October 2005). "HRM practice and employee attitudes: different measures – different results". Personnel Review. 34 (5): 534–549. doi:10.1108/00483480510612503. ISSN 0048-3486. Wikidata Q125797272.
• Alan Geare; Fiona Edgar; Ian McAndrew (July 2006). "Employment relationships: ideology and HRM practice". International Journal of Human Resource Management. 17 (7): 1190–1208. doi:10.1080/09585190600756442. ISSN 0958-5192. Wikidata Q125798388.
• Fiona Edgar; Alan Geare (June 2013). "Factors influencing university research performance". Studies in Higher Education. 38 (5): 774–792. doi:10.1080/03075079.2011.601811. ISSN 0307-5079. Wikidata Q125797286.
• Jing A. Zhang; Fiona Edgar; Alan Geare; Conor O'Kane (November 2016). "The interactive effects of entrepreneurial orientation and capability-based HRM on firm performance: The mediating role of innovation ambidexterity". Industrial Marketing Management. 59: 131–143. doi:10.1016/J.INDMARMAN.2016.02.018. ISSN 0019-8501. Wikidata Q125797279.
• Nataliya Podgorodnichenko; Fiona Edgar; Ian McAndrew (September 2020). "The role of HRM in developing sustainable organizations: Contemporary challenges and contradictions". Human Resource Management Review. 30 (3): 100685. doi:10.1016/J.HRMR.2019.04.001. ISSN 1053-4822. Wikidata Q125797275.
• Vicky Browning; Fiona Edgar; Brendan Gray; Tony Garrett (June 2009). "Realising competitive advantage through HRM in New Zealand service industries". Service Industries Journal. 29 (6): 741–760. doi:10.1080/02642060902749237. ISSN 0264-2069. Wikidata Q125797284.
• Fiona Edgar; Alan Geare (12 June 2009). "Inside the "black box" and "HRM"". International Journal of Manpower. 30 (3): 220–236. doi:10.1108/01437720910956736. ISSN 0143-7720. Wikidata Q125797297.

References

1. Otago, University of (27 November 2015). "Fiona Edgar". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
2. Edgar, Fiona (2002). Regulating for best practice in human resource management: The impact of the good employer obligation (PhD thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/1484.
3. Otago, Study Public Health at (15 December 2017). "University of Otago announces academic promotions". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
4. ^ "Otago announces 39 new professors, News and events, University of Otago, New Zealand". 20 December 2022. Archived from the original on 20 December 2022. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
5. ^ Management, Department of (25 May 2023). "Professor Fiona Edgar". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
6. Dubby Henry (6 May 2024). "Hung-over workers cost businesses 'staggering' $1.65b". NZ Herald. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
7. Otago, University of. "Hidden cost of alcohol to workplaces estimated at $1.65 billion". phys.org. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
8. Houlahan, Mike (7 June 2019). "Booze could cost workplaces $1.65 billion". Otago Daily Times Online News. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
9. "The International Journal of Human Resource Management: Editorial Board". Taylor & Francis Online. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
10. "University researchers recognised". Otago Daily Times Online News. 11 August 2008. Retrieved 5 May 2024.

External links

• People, performance and pluralism. Inaugural professorial lecture by Fiona Edgar, 3 October 2023, via YouTube

• Living people
• New Zealand academics
• New Zealand women academics
• University of Otago alumni
• Human resource management people
• Academic staff of the University of Otago