Fiona Jacqueline Edgar (née McCullough) is a New Zealand management academic, and is a full professor at the
University of Otago
The University of Otago () is a public university, public research university, research collegiate university based in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Founded in 1869, Otago is New Zealand's oldest university and one of the oldest universities in ...
, specialising in
human resource management
Human resource management (HRM) is the strategic and coherent approach to the effective and efficient management of people in a company or organization such that they help their business gain a competitive advantage. It is designed to maximize e ...
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
A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...
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
Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), commonly known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish Americans, Irish-born American cook who is believed to have infected between 51 and 122 people with typhoid fever. The infections caused ...
, 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.
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References
External links
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People, performance and pluralism'. Inaugural professorial lecture by Fiona Edgar, 3 October 2023, via YouTube
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
New Zealand academics
New Zealand women academics
University of Otago alumni
Human resource management people
Academic staff of the University of Otago