AUT - Candice Harris

Dr Candice Harris

Associate Professor

Phone: + 64 9 921 9999 ext: 5102.

Email: candice.harris@aut.ac.nz

Qualifications:

• PhD in Tourism Management
• Master of Business Studies in Management
• BBus(Hons) in Management
• Advanced Certificate in Tertiary Teaching

Biography:

Dr Candice Harris joined AUT University in 2004 as a Senior Lecturer in Management.  Prior to joining AUT, she has held academic positions since 1994, firstly at Wellington Polytechnic and then Massey University Wellington.  She has a BBS(Hons) and MBS from Massey University and a PhD from Victoria University Wellington.

She teaches courses in Human Resource Management and International Human Resource Management.  She is supervising post-graduate students in topics including workplace bullying; motivation of part-time employees; productivity, participation and well-being at work; Mumpreneurs; hotel employee turnover and engagement; and transition back to work for women from parental leave.

Candice is Deputy Co-Director of the New Zealand Institute for Work and Labour Studies based at AUT.  Members of the institute research work and labour market issues, with a focus on human and organisational diversity, participation, productivity and sustainability. 

She has also played in active role in Executive Education programmes run by the faculty over the past four years, facilitating courses in leadership and management for corporate clients.

Teaching Areas:

Expertise in Degree and Postgraduate Teaching

• Human resource management
• International human resource management
• General management
• Tourism

Research areas:

Areas of Research Expertise

• Human Resource Management
• People in Small and Medium Enterprises
• Gender and Tourism
• Business Travel

Research Summary:

Interests in Research Supervision

• Human resource management issues 
• Business travel and employee mobility
• Gender issues in business
• Critical issues in tourism
• Qualitative methodologies

Current Research Projects:

• HR and environmental sustainability
• Business travel
• Career development issues for academic women
• Work-Life balance
• Mumpreneurs (mothers who are entrepreneurs)

Publications:

Selected Publications

1. Kesting, S. and Harris, C. (2009) Providing a Theoretical Foundation for Work-Life Balance – Sen’s Capability Approach. New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations, 34(1). 47-61
2. Williamson, D., Harris, C., & Parker, J (2009) “I love you – goodbye: Exit Interviews and Turnover in The New Zealand Hotel Industry” New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations, 33(2). 70-90.
3. Harris, C. & Tregidga, H. (2009, August, 24-27).  HR Managers and Environmental Sustainability: Strategic Leaders or Passive Observers?  International Industrial Relations Association 15th World Congress, Sydney, Australia. 
4. Small, J., Harris, C., & Wilson, E. (2008).  A critical discourse analysis of in-flight magazine advertisements: The ‘social sorting’ of airline travellers?  Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 6(1), 17-38.
5. Markey, R.  Lamm, F.  Harris, C.  Ravenswood, K & Williamson, D (AUT University, New Zealand) and Herman Knudsen, Ole Brusck, Tine Jorgensen & Jens Lind (Aalborg University, Denmark) (2008) Improving Productivity Through Enhancing Employee Wellness and Well-being. Paper submitted to the Third European Congress of the Work and Labour Network, Rome, 24-26 September 2008 
6. Pritchard, A., Ateljevic, I., Morgan, N. & Harris, C. (2007). Tourism and Gender: Embodiment, Sensuality and Experience.  Oxon: Cabi International.
7. Coetzer, A., Cameron, A., Lewis, K., Massey, C., & Harris, C. (2007).  Human resource practices in selected New Zealand small and medium-sized enterprises. International Journal of Organisational Behaviour, 12(1), 17-32. 
8. Lewis, K., Massey, C., & Harris, C. (2007).  Learning by doing: Six dimensions of complexity in researching SMEs.  Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, 4(2), 151-163.
9. Cheyne, J. & Harris, C (2005) Women and SMEs.  In Massey, C. Managing a Small Business in New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand: Pearson Education New Zealand Ltd.
10. Harris, C. (2002).  Women and Power: A Study of New Zealand Women Business Travellers.  PhD Thesis, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.