AUT - Barbara Myers

Barbara Myers

Senior Lecturer, Centre for Business Interdisciplinary Studies

Phone: + 64 9 921 9999 ext 5366

Email: Barbara.myers@aut.ac.nz

Qualifications:

Master of Commerce (University of Auckland)
Bachelor of Commerce and Administration (Victoria University)
Bachelor of Arts (University of Canterbury)
Diploma Teaching
Licentiate of Trinity College (London)

Memberships and Affiliations:

• American Academy of Management
• European Group for Organizational Studies
• Gender and Diversity group, Faculty of Business and Law, AUT University
• HRINZ (Human Resources Institute New Zealand)

Teaching Areas:

•     International HRM, HRM, Training and Development
•     Careers, paid and unpaid
•     Personal and Professional Development
•     Workplace Development
•     Gender and diversity

Research areas:

•     International HRM, HRM
•     Careers
•     Gender and diversity
•     Older workers
•     Personal and Professional development
•     Life stories
•     Paid and unpaid work

Research Summary:

Barbara Myers has developed and taught Personal and Professional Development on the MBA programme.  She also teaches courses in Human Resource Management and International Human Resource Management on the BBus programme. Barbara supervises co-operative education students specialising in working with mature students completing senior projects involving career transition and development. She also supervises students on international co-operative education placements.
Barbara’s earlier research interests have included careers, expatriation and older and younger workers. She worked on a major research project with Professor Kerr Inkson exploring the impact of overseas experience (OE) on the career and personal development of young New Zealanders.

Current Research Projects:

Barbara’s main research interests include self-initiated expatriation, older workers, gender and career and life development. She is currently enrolled in a PhD exploring the emergence of a new research phenomena i.e. older New Zealand women undertaking an extended period of travel and work overseas.

Publications:

Myers, B. (forthcoming 2011). Self Initiated Expatriation (SIE) in older women: exploring a different terrain.Women’s Studies Journal Aotearoa/New Zealand
Myers, B., & Pringle, J. (2010). Self Initiated Expatriation (SIE) in older women: exploring the terrain. Self  Initiated expatriation and career development: Diversity across cultures and genders.  Symposium paper presented at American Academy of Management. Montreal. August 6–11.
Myers, B., & Pringle, J. (2009, September). Older workers having a gap year: Seeking rejuvenation or signalling rejection? Paper presented at the British Academy of Management Conference, Brighton.
Myers, B. & Pringle, J. (2005). Self initiated foreign experiences as accelerated development: Influences of gender. Journal of World Business, 40, (40), 421-431.
Inkson, K., & Myers, B., (2003). “The Big O.E.”: Self-directed travel and career development. Career Development International, 8 (4), p. 170-181.
Myers, B. & Inkson K. (2003). ‘“ The big OE”: How it works and what it can do for New Zealand’  University of Auckland Business Review, 5, (1),  44-54.